From what I saw recently on a Tim Pool video, I’d be prepared to go out on a limb and say that on a balance of probabilities basis, a woman who claimed that she was doused in lighter fluid and set alight by a pair of white men, has, to say the least, made an extremely shonky looking allegation. In fact I’d go that bit further and say that this is more than likely to be a hoax, another fake ‘hate crime’.

The video, which is embedded below, concerns a woman from Madison, Wisconsin who made social media complaints and complaints to local police that she had been attacked and that the attack was a ‘hate crime’. However, as Mr Pool said, social media users did not believe that her injuries looked anything like burns and instead looked like abrasions.

Because of the nature of the case, the allegation was escalated and referred to the FBI as it was, as I understand US Law, now of a Federal matter. This is the point when the original story that the complainant Althea Bernstein started to fall apart. When the FBI examined the complainant’s digital devices, GPS records from one of the devices showed that Bernstein was a long way away from the location where the attack was said to have occurred and at the time when she alleged that she was attacked.

Now of course we should not dismiss completely the possibility that the GPS was faulty, but that possibility is a pretty damn small one. It’s much more likely to be the case that this was a fake ‘hate crime’, cooked up for some nefarious purpose. It could be that the claimant is mentally ill or is engaged in some sort of attention seeking behaviour or the claim could even have been made for some political or financial reason? Whatever the reason behind this increasingly dubious claim of a ‘hate crime’, what is plain to see is the original narrative that was made is on very shaky ground.

Watch the Tim Pool video below for more details of this case.