Report 82.
Articles/Programs
116. Man reports bias attack, but the police express doubts / Watkins had made two previous unfounded reports of beatings by white men in white vans. / 1992-01-18
Details
Type of hoax: suspected
Date: 1992-01-01
Location: New York NY
Summary: Black man Lewis Watkins, 25, claimed he had been beaten by white men shouting racial slurs and referring to a rape of a white girl by black men. The police disbelieved him.