Rachel Richardson is the only black starter on the Duke women’s volleyball team. She has alleged that during a recent match with BYU, someone in the student’s section yelled out the N-word every time she served the ball. She identified this person and got him banned from all future BYU sporting events. In a non-surprising twist, none of this ever happened except the person getting banned for doing nothing.
First up is GMA with a report on the outrageous hate crime:
Rachel Richardson, who is Black, is a sophomore at Duke and was the target of the alleged racial slurs. Richardson heard the slur “every time she served,”…
In a statement posted on Twitter Sunday, Richardson said officials and BYU coaching staff were aware of what was happening during the game but she said they failed to stop the fan and end the behavior.
“I [was] targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match. The slurs and comments grew into threats,” wrote Richardson.
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— rachel ♡ (@rachrich03) August 28, 2022
The racial slur was the N-word, according to Richardson, and she is the only source who heard it. Also, BYU did do something about it, they banned the person she ID’d as the racist from all athletic events at the school.
There was plenty of outrage to go around in the liberal media and USA Today even called her a “hero” for standing up to this blatant racism.
The thing is, it never happened. The BYU Cougar Chronicle did some investigation and they couldn’t find any evidence that someone was yelling the N-word at Richardson during the match:
The Cougar Chronicle has been unable to find a source in the student section that can corroborate Richardson’s claim of racial slurs being yelled at her. Vera Smith, a BYU student in the student section during the game, said she “heard absolutely nothing” that could be taken as a racial slur. Jacob Hanson, also a BYU student, shared texts with the Cougar Chronicle from two friends in two different parts of the student section that also heard nothing. They said they were not aware there had been a problem until after the game. Maddy Johnson, another BYU student who was in the ROC student section, said she did not hear any racial slur said and when she saw the individual escorted out of the arena he was in a different section. A mother of a BYU student says she personally knows five people who were in the student section during the game “One person was on the court and the others were in the first row” she told the Chronicle. None of them heard a racial slur. Two other people on the court, who wish to remain anonymous, did not hear any racial slurs.
For perspective, here’s the student section from that game:
How could anyone be yelling the N-word from that small crowd and nobody would notice? Also, wouldn’t the cop standing right there have heard it?
Speaking of cops, The Salt Lake Tribune reports that police have investigated this and found it to be bullshit:
BYU Police Lt. George Besendorfer said Tuesday that based on an initial review of surveillance footage of the crowd, the individual who was banned wasn’t shouting anything while the Duke player was serving.
Police talked to the man, who’s identified in the report as a Utah Valley University student, and he denied shouting any slurs; he said the only thing he yelled was that the players “shouldn’t hit the ball into the net.”
An officer later reviewed footage, according to the report, and wrote: “There was nothing seen on the game film that led me to believe” that the man “was the person who was making comments to the player who complained about being called the N-word.”
During the match’s second set, the officer observed, the UVU student was not present when Richardson was serving, which is when Richardson’s family and Duke officials said the slurs were yelled. And later, when she was serving again, he was playing on his phone, the officer wrote.
And here’s the greatest part of all:
But the officers said the athletic department wanted to ban the man, so the school moved forward with that process. The officer told the man not to come to any future games “indefinitely,” according to the report.
So nobody yelled the N-word but this guy is banned for life? Brilliant.
At least Jussie Smollett didn’t know there were video cameras when he was faking his hate crime. Richardson had to be aware there were cameras everywhere that would prove she was full of shit.
Another hate crime hoax bites the dust and you can bet the liberal media won’t report on it with the same outrage they gave to the initial false story.
