Businessman at JFK assaults Muslim airline employee

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Lawlight said:

deskpro2k3 said:

surrree it's fake. his $50K bail is fake, and I guess the man named Robin Rhodes must be fake, and the comment he made "I guess I am going to jail for disorderly conduct" as the police arrested him must be fake too.

Difficult to say. As I said, plenty of fake hate crimes were reported recently.

What a priori evidence do you have that it's fake?  In Bayesian terms, what's the ratio of fake hate crimes to actual reported hate crimes?  Is it significantly greater than, say, 5% or are you just in the habit of interjecting "fake news" whenever someone reports a crime that doesn't fit some narrative?  It's really unproductive to take that as a default stance unless you have some statistics to back it up.

For what it's worth, this follow-up story consists of verifiable claims.  I personally confirmed a couple of the salient points using archive.org:

http://www.masslive.com/news/worcester/index.ssf/2017/01/nitrofreeze_website_removes_me.html

It doesn't confirm any details of the case, but the sudden (some time within the nearest available sampling window) retroactive and silent removal of a July blog post is strong evidence that something happened with Robin Rhodes that the company considers to be an embarrassment.