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Woman Claiming She Was Victim of Racially-Motivated Attack Lied

October 25, 2012 at 8:20 am by  

Woman Claiming She Was Victim of Racially Motivated Attack LiedWinnsboro, LA – Sharmeka Moffitt, the 20-year-old woman who claimed she had been set ablaze by three men in white hoodies, apparently fabricated the whole story, as new evidence suggests she actually set herself on fire.

On Sunday, October 21st, Moffitt called 911 to report what police believed, at the time, to be a racially motivated attack in which three men doused Moffitt with lighter fluid, set her on fire, and then scrawled “KKK”  and an ethnic slur on the side of her car in…ummmm…toothpaste?  At the time, she said she did not know whether the men were black or white.

Moffitt was able to extinguish the flames using a nearby spigot, but had already suffered serious burns on over half her body.  She was taken to LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport for treatment.  Several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, began investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Now, several days after the incident, police have released the fact that Moffitt’s fingerprints were found on both the lighter fluid bottle in question and the lighter used to ignite it, proving, more or less, that she self-immolated.  Answers are a bit scarce at the moment, as Moffitt remains in critical condition, unable to answer the many questions investigators have for her.

“The evidence does not support the statement that she was attacked by three males,” said Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis.

The police have handed the case over to the Franklin Parish District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether or not to press charges against Moffitt.  Her family is somewhat shocked by the turn of events.  “Our family is devastated to learn the circumstances surrounding our daughter’s injuries. While this was not the resolution we had expected, it’s a resolution,” they said.

At this point, one can only guess at what might have prompted Moffitt’s actions.  I will say, however, that I can’t imagine she wrote on her car after setting herself on fire, as I’d imagine she was probably in severe pain and well on the road to shock.  This leads me to believe that it was a ruse from the beginning, and perhaps she was not able to extinguish the fire as quickly as she had originally thought she could.

Well done…literally.

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    • malq

      Al Sharptons plane was en route to pick up Jesse Jackson when the news broke. The plane banked sharply and went back to the Zimmerman Camp. They should have waited one more day to release the information that she lied.

    • sugarpie

      FAIL

    • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

      I think Sharpton would stay away from this particular case after the Tawanba Brawley scandal.

    • Snickering x Hydra

      Self inflicted hate crime? Nice going.

      I think people need to catch on to the fact that the ol’ racially motivated attack / rape alibi doesn’t work anymore. It’s not as easy to say that a black man, hispanic man, guy in a white / black hoody ( whose face they can’t seem to recall, only that he had a lot of tattoos ) did it. If there’s no DNA evidence, no surveillance footage, and if the attacker seems like a ghost (a vengeful, hate-filled spirit who returned to commit rapes / hate crimes) chances are he doesn’t exist. At least in most cases.

    • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

      I knew this broad was lying from the beginning. The white hoods was a red flag for me, the Klan doesn’t do that anymore since they now consider themselves more of a political party and less of a fraternal organization these days.

      Way to help those of us who have been victims of racism you attention seeking heffa.

      She’s just as bad as the bitches that lie about rape.

    • Whatevn

      Now you made me wonder if she has self inflicted rape wounds that no one know about yet.

    • malq

      Good point.

    • malq

      I just posted that in the forums AM. I will stand corrected if wrong, but when was the last time a bunch of hooded KKK hung a black person? Great minds think alike. great analogy on the rape too, i hadnt thought of that. but this shit does set the black movement back. i hope [powerful black leaders shun and ridicule the shit out of her.

    • malq

      I’m not gonna go that far, rape cases should be taken seriously until proven otherwise. the race angle always raises questions. In my lifetime anyways, I don’t forsee getting around that issue. My soultion is to force blacks and whites to play naked twister on on an oily mat until this goes away.

    • SayAunt

      Sharmeka pretty much had me convinced. Especially when I read about the toothpaste graffiti cause the KKK is all about whitening.

    • chikonanklemonitor

      I was just happy to know that the old “white robe” thing had become more “urban” since theyre now apparently rockN hoodies……..

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

      She is the newest Darwin Award winner….

    • JGo555

      A self-mutilation case if I ever saw one. OR she went the hardcore way of living off the gubbment IF she survives. You know, so she doesn’t have to deal with raising kids, paying bills and having no love life.

    • Athena

      Good to know that white women don’t have the market cornered on this brand of crazy.

    • chikonanklemonitor

      thats easy, just check to see if she broke any of her own fingers……… duuh

    • slavesher

      Now that made me smile.

    • Bop

      Well…she got her fifteen seconds of FLAME! *Ba-dum kish*

      But really, whenever I burn myself I get put in an empty room and my family tells people I’m on “vacation.” Then I don’t get ANY attention. I can learn alot from Sharmeka.

    • newstarshipsmell

      I should’ve held off on posting that Dead Milkmen song the other week. Could’ve made some jokes about self-love here. Oh well.

    • Gee

      I think Darwin FAILED here. She definitely needed to be culled from the herd.

      Fucking Attention seeking Idiot

    • brandi

      yep! my thoughts exactly. no one is listening to me, so i’ll set myself on fire. that’ll show them i’m important!

    • LuvsHorror

      Only if she dies.

    • brandi

      totally off subject, my uncle went to one of their concerts, he returned home, drunk of coarse, went to sleep, only for us to wake him up and tell him his truck had caught on fire. he went outside screaming, bitching, acting like a fool. to which my grandmother replied, don’t worry we’ll get you another truck. he said i don’t give a shit about the truck, my new dead milkmen hat was in there. your the only person i’ve heard talk about that band since i was about 6 years old. lol thanks for bringing back that memory i’m gonna call him to laugh about it later.

    • Rachel Ann

      Apparently the fact that she has a daughter disqualifies her from winning a Darwin Award even if she does die. Damn. Thanks @newstarshipsmell:disqus for deflating my hopes lol.

    • newstarshipsmell

      LOL, you’re welcome. I guess someone really loved his truck. Fuck, thanks for making me feel like an old fart.

    • Flo Robison

      And guess who gets to pay for her medical treatments?

    • newstarshipsmell

      Well, considering the defamation lawsuit judgement against him was paid for by his supporters, rather than himself, I’d say it’s not much of a deterrent to him.

      Anyways, you finished reading my entire timeline yet?

    • https://twitter.com/#!/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

      But the bad press that he received and the fact for decades anything that came out of his mouth made people throw the case back in his face leads me to believe that he doesn’t want that kind of mess anymore. Plus you would be hard pressed to find people backing Sharpton the way they did back then.

      No I didn’t, I’ll go read it now.

    • curiousalways

      awesome.

    • curiousalways

      She at least had the forethought to not permanently damage her car. Funny how she worried about that and not so much her own body.

    • Athena

      Unfortunately, rape cases lacking physical evidence are receiving conviction daily. Not to say that some shouldn’t be, but it’s estimated that over 2000 people are wrongly incarcerated on sex crime charges as we speak.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

      wtf. Then we must refute this and make a new dumbass award selection. People, good grief, this planet would be great without them.

    • curiousalways

      Wow, I had never heard about that Tawana scandal. Just read about it. Johnie Cochran paid for his part of the civil judgement against him. Interesting.

    • Snickering x Hydra

      Nice one.

    • brandi

      my bad, i’m sure you’ve felt worse things before. lol

    • JohnQknowitall

      Fortunately most people do not abuse this law. The penalty for abusing it is serious – incredibly stupid and serious in this event.

    • LeaveMeBe

      While I was on vacation with the hubby last week, he woke me up in the middle of the night because he said I had yelled, really loudly, and in a super mean voice, “Pay Attention To Me!!!” I LMAO because I remembered yelling it in my dream. More people should try that technique. :)

    • CT

      I do that all of the time here and it gets me no where.

    • CT

      I love the Dead Milkmen.

    • shae

      When I heard of this I knew she was lying and I am blk…smh

    • Gee

      @LeaveMeBe:disqus Attention whores the both of you :o )~

    • hookerpie

      This is what happens when you get so fucked up you mistake your relaxer bottle with lighter fluid. Add a crack pipe in the mix and WHOOOSH!!!!! Up in flames!

    • Twisted1

      My daughter and her friends TP’d a bunch of houses years ago. I caught her and made her go clean it up. The owner of one of the houses came out and said they saw the white TP and thought it was racially motivated. Never mind that other houses had it as well. They immediately jumped to race. :/

    • wyrosjr

      The weird thing here is that her own self hate is tied up in notions about race.

    • onlyme356

      Sounds like Munchausen’s syndrome

    • JustBrowsingLife

      Darn it! You leaked my Halloween costume idea.

    • Heather_Habilatory

      Because there’s so much black toilet paper out there…. for fuck’s sake.

    • Heather_Habilatory

      GOD DAMMIT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

      YOU ONLY FUCKING WIN A DARWIN AWARD IF YOU DIE (DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE emphasis on the fucking DIE part) BEFORE YOU BEAR CHILDREN.

      IS THIS CLEAR YET?!

    • LeaveMeBe

      OMFG! LMFAO! I’m detecting some pent up frustration and rage flowing here, HH. ;)

    • CT

      OMG, your comment almost made me pee my pants.

    • newstarshipsmell
    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

      Simmer down man….it was an honest mistake.

    • newstarshipsmell

      Actually, you may have been correct in the first place.

      I cry out against their misuse all the time, yet I am just as guilty of holding misconceptions about them as the folks I’ve corrected, which I didn’t realize until I actually bothered to visit their website and real their rules. For instance, it is apparently a grey area where pre-existing offspring are concerned. Some have been given the award despite that, while others have been excluded for the same reason. The main qualifiers seem to be that the subject is capable of reproducing at the time of their accident, and the accident must ultimately kill or sterilize them.

      Not sure whether she’ll die from her injuries – I don’t know enough about burn injuries to venture a guess, but she only suffered 2nd degree burns, but to over half her body. Of course, if she managed to burn off her ladybits then I guess she’ll qualify.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rochell-Arnold/100000587657456 Rochell Arnold

      Well if she didn’t burn off her lady bits with 2nd degree burns there is still scarring….to over half of her body so I would assume it is safe to say that guys won’t be lining up around the block for a piece of her pie lol. (That was horrible, I know I just reserved my seat in hell for that, but I could not resist.)

    • Heather_Habilatory

      I’m trying to hammer the point home.

    • Heather_Habilatory

      I feel better now.

      Whether it was this or the candy, pills and booze, who knows. who cares!? lol

    • Heather_Habilatory

      I aim to pees.

      Terrible joke, I know.

    • wastintime

      People like her piss me off. They are the reason why real racism is ignored.

    • Pipsmom06

      She obviously did this for attention and sympathy, but I am thinking the whole racial crime/ reporting aspect would rule out munchausen’s, right?

    • midniteshadows

      No. It’s funny as hell – had me laughing!

    • G.I.R.L.

      but… how do you know when you’re clean?