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| Duke lacrosse accuser charged with attempted murder, arson |
| 2010-02-18 |
| Durham police arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal [THUMP! WHACK! BEAT! BEAT! BEAT!] "Owwwwww!" set his clothes on fire in a bathtub "My clothes!" and threatened to stab him. "Honey! Put down the knife!" "I'll put it down in your lung!" Authorities charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer. "Name?" "Ummm... Amy Bishop." "You ain't Amy Bishop. We already got her locked up!" "Barbra Streisand." "Lemme hear you sing, Babs." Shortly after 11:30 p.m., police received a 911 call about a domestic dispute at 2220 Lincoln St. Authorities said they believe the call came from one of the three children inside the house. "Help! Help! Crystal's been in the liquor cabinet again!" When officers arrived, they found Mangum and her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, fighting. "Put the ax down and step away from it witcher hands up, lady!" According to police documents, Mangum scratched, punched and threw objects at Walker and told him, "I'm going to stab you, (expletive)!" [CRASH! SMASH!] "Honey! Put the knife down!" "Yeah, lady! Put the knife down!" She then went into a bathroom and set his clothes on fire in the bathtub, police said. Officers called the fire department to put out the flames. No one was injured. "911. How can I help you?" "This is the police. We got a bathtub fire at 555 12th Street!" Milton was not charged in the incident, police said. The three children inside the house, ages 3, 9 and 10, were not injured. "You can come out now, kids!" "You sure?" Police charged Mangum with identity theft because she gave them a fake name, "Marella Mangum," and age, authorities said. She also resisted the officers who responded to the scene, according to police documents. "Lemme go! Lemme at him!" "You've already been at him! Don't let her outta that headlock, Clancy!" Mangum was being held in the Durham County Jail on no bond and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning. She has been ordered to have no contact with Walker. "I'm warnin' you, lady! Let go!" Mangum is the author of the memoir "Last Dance for Grace." She was a student at North Carolina Central University in 2006 and also worked as an exotic dancer when she performed at the now infamous Duke lacrosse party. It was there, she claimed, that three white members of the team trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her. David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were indicted on rape and other charges on the basis of her allegations and were eventually exonerated after North Carolina's attorney general dismissed the case. Some snarks just write themselves. Prof. KC Johnson at Durham in Wonderland has thoughts. Not like Fred's, but thoughts. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #9 And there you have a useful roadmap of the academic left. And except for the History dept., of no value whatsoever. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-18 19:37 |
| #8 Well, I must say my faith in rape accusing part time strippers has taken a shattering blow... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-02-18 18:55 |
| #7 She is getting her just desserts, just as that a**hole district attorney got his. Now, if the president of Duke could get his and the gang of 88 get theirs, things would be better...not right but better. Go Blue Devils!!! |
| Posted by: remoteman 2010-02-18 18:12 |
| #6 Glenmore ask Andre Rison after Lisa "left eye" Lopes visited his home. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2010-02-18 12:27 |
#5 From Procopius's link, re the Gang of 88:In three departments, more than half of faculty signed the statement. The department with the highest proportion of signatories was African and African-American Studies, with 80%. Just over 72% of the Women's Studies faculty signed the statement, Cultural Anthropology 60%, Romance studies 44.8%, Literature 41.7%, English 32.2%, Art & Art History 30.7%, and History 25%. No faculty members from the Pratt School of Engineering or full-time law professors signed the document. Departments that had no faculty members sign the document include Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Genetics, Germanic Languages/Literature, Psychology and Neuroscience, Religion, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies. And there you have a useful roadmap of the academic left. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-02-18 12:05 |
| #4 Why would you need the fire department to put out clothes burning in a bathtub? Couldn't you just turn on the water? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-02-18 11:43 |
| #3 Let's remember she's the poster child of the Group of 88. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-02-18 11:40 |
| #2 The mills of the Gods... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-02-18 11:05 |
| #1 Some snarks do just write themselves, don't they! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-02-18 10:29 |