Prosecutors Close Probe Into Alleged Hate Crime Against Biracial Teen, Cite ‘Lack Of Evidence’

Madison, Wisc., police dropped an investigation into an alleged hate crime against an 18-year-old biracial woman on Friday after finding little evidence to corroborate the woman’s story.

Althea Bernstein told police in June that she was attacked by a group of four white men while stopped at a light in Madison. Local police partnered with the FBI and U.S. District Attorney Scott Blader of the Western District of Wisconsin to investigate the case.