Ex-NFL player Edawn Coughman is accused of staging a hate crime - CNN
Here we go again....
Seems pretty open and shut....likely done for insurance money.
The number of fakes though seems to be high. One would assume that much like actual hate crimes...for every one of these fakes we see, many more are never discovered.
I tend to think it's because of a common sentiment these days. An idea that if you aren't part of the solution....you're at least enabling the problem. I won't go into a lengthy explanation of why that's false...but I will say there's nothing wrong with skepticism. There's nothing lazy about it...and it doesn't hurt anyone.
Here we go again....
A former NFL player is facing criminal charges after he allegedly destroyed his business near Atlanta to make it look like a hate crime burglary, police said.
Edawn Louis Coughman, 31, was arrested Thursday and charged with false report of a crime, insurance fraud and concealing a license plate, police said in a statement.
Seems pretty open and shut....likely done for insurance money.
The number of fakes though seems to be high. One would assume that much like actual hate crimes...for every one of these fakes we see, many more are never discovered.
I tend to think it's because of a common sentiment these days. An idea that if you aren't part of the solution....you're at least enabling the problem. I won't go into a lengthy explanation of why that's false...but I will say there's nothing wrong with skepticism. There's nothing lazy about it...and it doesn't hurt anyone.