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Hate Crime Hoax: She Claimed Racial Targeting After Her Door Was Egged. Police Say She Egged It Herself.

Ashe Schow
Hate Crime Hoax: She Claimed Racial Targeting After Her Door Was Egged. Police Say She Egged It Herself.
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A black student at Wayne State University in Michigan claimed she was the target of two separate acts of vandalism based on the color of skin has been identified as the primary suspect in those acts.

The College Fix reported that a police report it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request showed the WSU Police Department said it spent “at minimum 200 man hours” investigating Zoriana Martinez’s claims and now views her as the primary suspect.

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