All News Pipeline post excerpt of Mar 1, 2016
http://bit.ly/1WUfjF
The women's initial report of the incident led to national outrage, a massive campus rally and even Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tweeted about it, hitting out against violence on a college campus.

Albany Hate Crime Hoax (Video Inside Bus) Black Girls Attacking Whites
NEWS9LIVE
Feb 26, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmt_CBQYaHM

CAUGHT ON TAPE - Black students at U. of Albany attacking white bus passengers!

Documentation of Assault on Bus: Ariel Agudio, Alexis Briggs, and Asha Burwell all claimed to have been assaulted on a bus right after several racial slurs were hurled at them. This is the video from the bus they were on, and it shows that it was in fact the girls who did the attacking.

Investigators say a review of multiple videos of the incident showed no evidence the women were victims of a crime or subjected to racial slurs. In fact, police said the women were the aggressors, assaulting a 19-year-old white woman.

Police said surveillance and cellphone video, as well as eyewitness testimony, contradicted the women's account. The white men Agudio, Burwell and Briggs claimed assaulted them were actually trying to break up the fight.

"I especially want to point out that what happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in a statement, according to the Albany Times-Union.

Police: Black U. of Albany students faked hate crime - three 20-year-old black students at the State University of New York at Albany to face charges.