POLICE: WOMAN FAKED GRUESOME ANTI-GAY ATTACK TO SPARK CHANGE — MAY HAVE EVEN CARVED GAY SLURS INTO OWN SKIN

By: Erica Ritz - The Blaze – August 22, 2012

(The Blaze/AP) — A former University of Nebraska women’s basketball star faked an attack in which she allegedly carved anti-gay slurs into her skin because she felt it would spark change, police said Tuesday.

Four days before Charlie Rogers crawled naked and bleeding from her Lincoln home, screaming for…

White House Unsure if Family Research Council Shooting a Hate Crime

By: CNS News – August 20, 2012

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Man Admits Hate Crime Attack Was False

By: KMBC -Dec. 28th 2004

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -

Police said a 22-year-old man was charged with filing a false report about a hate crime.

Floyd Elliott, of Independence, told police that on Dec. 14, two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot…

Lesbian couple accused of faking hate crime

By: Marc Sternfield – Fox News Denver – May 17, 2012

PARKER, Colo. – A lesbian couple that claimed to be the victims of a hate crime in Parker last year now faces charges of false reporting.

In October 2011, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, told authorities that vandals spray-painted “Kill the Gay” on their garage and…