You’ve proven nothing.

Miss Brawley, who is black, had been beaten. ”Nigger” and ”KKK” had been written in charcoal or marker on her torso, feces had been smeared across her body and her hair had been chopped off, the police said. She later told her family and law-enforcement authorities that she had been abducted and sexually assaulted by six white men – one of whom wore a police badge.

They made no claims as to who had done what to her if anyone other than herself. Those are facts as to how she was found. They went on to make this statement in the same article:

The case of Miss Brawley has provoked the most anger and has become the subject of a dispute about its prosecution.

Local law-enforcement officials have questioned the truthfulness of the girl’s statements. Other people, like B. Harold Ramsey, president of the local chapter of the N. A. A. C. P., and Clarence McGill, head of the Dutchess County Committee Against Racism, charged there has been a cover-up because of Miss Brawley’s allegation of police involvement.

I’ll cut you some slack because you seem to believe that Neal Boortz is a reporter, but what that article you linked to does is report the facts available at the time. It ends no credence to her claims.

Just more strawman nonsense from you.

BTW, the NYT was only reporting her silence ordered by her attorneys. That doesn’t mean that they felt it was bad enough to investigate it to the extent of Celete’s story, which was my point.

That was early in the case while her claims were being investigated. If you look beyond that, you’ll see headlines like this:

Questions Persist in Dutchess Assault (February 4, 1988)

Abrams Frustrated by Lawyer in Assault Case (February 7, 1988) – That article was written by Clifford May, btw

Girl’s Lawyers Sought Limits On Inquiry – (February 19, 1988)

Actions of Brawley Lawyers Raise Troubling Questions – (February 23, 1988)

Sharpton: Champion or Opportunist? – (February 24, 1988)

Brawley Case: Stubborn Puzzle, Silent Victim – (February 29, 1988)

In other words, they reported the news and as her story fell apart they reacted accordingly. Cherrypicking one story out of hundreds only proves you’re either intellectually dishonest or lazy.

Randy: …I can tell that there was nothing, absolutely nothing that the New York Times did that gave any credence to Tawana Brawley’s lies.

Bias Cases Fuel Anger Of Blacks – December 14, 1987

Oh, really? That’s the way to stir ‘em up.

If The NY Times had vigorously exposed the Tawana Brawley/Al Sharpton fraud for what it was as promptly as they did in the case that Celeste provides, rather than inciting mobs, there wouldn’t have been all the marches and protests by sympathizers and suicide by one of the innocent accused.

The Native American thing is a wild card, though. I know from anecdotal observation in children’s court that if a kid has Native American blood, DCFS leaps through a whole different set of hoops in terms of placement.

Whatta story!