Police in Louisiana are claiming an African-American woman badly injured in what she called a racially motivated attack inflicted her wounds herself. Twenty-year-old Sharmeka Moffitt reportedly told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car. She suffered burns on more than half her body and is now hospitalized in critical condition. But police now say Moffitt staged the attack herself and that her DNA was found on the bottle of lighter fluid used to start the fire.
Louisiana Police Challenge Burn Victim’s Claim of Hate Crime
HeadlineOct 24, 2012