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2020-10-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Althea Bernstein claimed 4 white racists set her on fire in Madison, Wisc.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

According to investigative documents, Bernstein told the responding officer she is Hispanic and Black.

Harris told Bernstein’s attorney, Andrea Sumpter, during a meeting Tuesday that no one planned to file any charges against Bernstein, saying there’s no evidence she colluded with anyone to make a false report and there was no evidence she was involved in any of the destruction during the protest.

Harris told Sumpter that Bernstein had clearly suffered injuries to her face and that detectives were interested in whether someone else had hurt her in a different way than she had alleged.

Sumpter said she had no alternative information from Bernstein or her family about how she was burned and “acknowledged that there can be many reasons why a victim might not want to be forthcoming about who caused injuries,” Harris wrote.
Posted by Fred 2020-10-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Any relation to Jesse Smollett?
Posted by Clem 2020-10-03 00:03||   2020-10-03 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "Please respect my attention-grabbing lies privacy."
Posted by charger 2020-10-03 00:25||   2020-10-03 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 ...pants on fire
Posted by Gleting Black3363 2020-10-03 00:38||   2020-10-03 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 (Definitely) Fat (maybe) multi-racial (maybe) jewish girl. Steve Sailer has been having fun speculating that Haven Monahan is one of the Hawaiian shirt clad "typical white frat boys" from her original, since downplayed incident report.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 01:38||   2020-10-03 01:38|| Front Page Top

#5 That "I'm cashin' in" smile. Hasn't worked out that way...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 01:40||   2020-10-03 01:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Supposedly 4 white guys in Hawaiian shirts. Could be the poifect crime.
Posted by Lemuel Flereck8330 2020-10-03 01:49||   2020-10-03 01:49|| Front Page Top

#7 What Happened at Madison’s Protests(June 23-24)
Got too close to an Antifa / BLM molotov thrower? If it wasn't her.
Posted by magpie 2020-10-03 02:16||   2020-10-03 02:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Likely she was the thrower. Evidence of lighter fluid on her shirt indicates that she prepped the cocktail.
Posted by Beldar Snolunter9051 2020-10-03 02:23||   2020-10-03 02:23|| Front Page Top

#9 "They attacked me, cuz I was doing nuffin but getting ready to set up my GoFundMe site and do interviews"
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-03 06:56||   2020-10-03 06:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Heavy.com did a 5 Fast Facts on the young lady:

Bernstein as an EMT and is studying to be a firefighter and paramedic. She is studying at Madison College.

That essay says she was home-schooled, lived in the Madison area her entire life, liked to travel, and worked at a veterinarian clinic.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-10-03 08:41||   2020-10-03 08:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Supposedly 4 white guys in Hawaiian shirts

Actually she reported two of the four guys wearing Hawaiian shirts (supposedly some dog-whistle for white supremacy), the other two were dressed in black.

Originally thought this might be some false-flag thing, but the more info (what little they release) leads me closer to what Beldar notes. The detectives would have found accelerant splashed somewhere in the vehicle if the event occurred as Ms. Bernstein described.

And the timelines are wrong.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-10-03 08:47||   2020-10-03 08:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Anyone can lie, but the racial grievance crowd seems especially primed...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 10:55||   2020-10-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#13 Looking at the burns, or lack there-of, going with Beldar.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-10-03 10:55||   2020-10-03 10:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Doing her best to Make America Racist Again.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-10-03 11:00||   2020-10-03 11:00|| Front Page Top

#15 She is lucky to escape with only superficial burns. They could have turned her into a newt. A fat, juicy newt.
Posted by SteveS 2020-10-03 11:56||   2020-10-03 11:56|| Front Page Top

#16 /\ Picture her taking a selfie, phone in her right hand when the thrower on her left throws a molotov. *Splat* *Sizzle* The burning gasoline soaked rag hits her on the left side of the faceas it flies by.
Posted by magpie 2020-10-03 12:23||   2020-10-03 12:23|| Front Page Top

#17 Hawaiian rag in that bottle. Hazie Morono and Tubby Flabbard unavailable for comment...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 13:24||   2020-10-03 13:24|| Front Page Top

#18 Tokay with a tropical bokeh...
Oy vey, an inflammable nosegay!
Remember, remember...
The glimmer of amber!
A shot in the dark:
Posted by Hupoper Big Foot9776 2020-10-03 17:38||   2020-10-03 17:38|| Front Page Top

#19 All together now, everybody sing and reel in a rollicking crew:

Althea through thick & thin: ALTHEA!

Althea, fire of my loins but never loin from le feu: ALTHEA!

Althea now, Althea later (alligator), Althea forever, ALTHEA!
Posted by Neville Cleque3524 2020-10-03 17:59||   2020-10-03 17:59|| Front Page Top

#20 but the song was more pleasant: " Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered to the extreme!"
Posted by Frank G 2020-10-03 18:12||   2020-10-03 18:12|| Front Page Top

#21 Simple: run the records on her smart phone to get the when and where. Want to bet it shows she was not where she claimed she was, when she claimed it to happen? On the flip side, if the place/time are confirmed, then they have a case to work.
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-10-03 18:28||   2020-10-03 18:28|| Front Page Top

#22 The police already grabbed tons of video footage of the entire area and found nobody even close to matching the description and no evidence of accelerant anywhere but her shirt, not in car, not on pants.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-10-03 19:02||   2020-10-03 19:02|| Front Page Top

#23 Stone walls do not a prison make, Althea, not iron bars a cage, but they will do.
Posted by Grunter 2020-10-03 22:33||   2020-10-03 22:33|| Front Page Top

#24 Nor...
Posted by Grunter 2020-10-03 22:34||   2020-10-03 22:34|| Front Page Top

#25 You really want someone who lies like this telling you "you're going to be OK" in the back of an ambulance?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 22:45||   2020-10-03 22:45|| Front Page Top

#26 She's a criminal. Prosecute her.
Enough of this bullshit and redirection.
Posted by Bill Speaking for Boskone7602 2020-10-03 23:01||   2020-10-03 23:01|| Front Page Top

#27 ^ Amen
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 23:03||   2020-10-03 23:03|| Front Page Top

#28 Won't happen tho. She's a "victim of white supremacy" and we need to feel sorry for her and send money to her dollar up page.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-10-03 23:06||   2020-10-03 23:06|| Front Page Top

#29 Dunno about the molotov. If she'd been involved with that, John Nolan Drive would have been a faster way to get to ER. Maybe a little freebasing accident?
Posted by James  2020-10-03 23:42|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2020-10-03 23:42|| Front Page Top

#30 Homesick for altheas now (though I always kinda looked down on 'em as yankee hibiscus... shame on me).

A shriek like an Eli's, then swearin',
When "Black" one-drop anarchist Karen
Goes "Mazel tov!", throws,
Blows her Instagram pose
As she grows those road-roses of Sharon.
Posted by Hupoper Big Foot9776 2020-10-03 23:59||   2020-10-03 23:59|| Front Page Top

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