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Ku Klux Klan sets Afro-American woman on fire

Ku Klux Klan has set an Afro-American woman on fire in yet another act of racism.

The 20-year-old woman has received third degree burns after being set on fire by alleged KKK attackers in a park in the state of Louisiana.

The incident occurred on Sunday night in Civitan Park in the city of Winnsboro as three men attacked Sharmeka Moffitt while she was exercising.

The victim said the men in white hoodies poured flammable liquid on her and set her on fire. She managed, however, to extinguish the fire using water from a tap before police arrived at the scene.

Moffitt was found with third degree burns on her arms and additional burns down her chest and legs to the first degree. She is reportedly in critical condition at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana.

The FBI is investigating the attack as an alleged hate crime.

The hood of her car was spray painted with the letters KKK, the abbreviation for Ku Klux Klan, a far-right extremist organization in the US advocating white supremacy, white nationalism and the end of immigration.

During the US civil rights movements in the 1950s and 1960s, the KKK violently opposed the movement and desegregation by bombing African American schools and churches and killing African-Americans and civil rights activists.

Source: http://presstv.com/detail/2012/10/23/268342/us-woman-set-on-fire-by-alleged-racists/

1st

Christian extremists smh!!

Black man, you're on your own - Arabs don't like you, and white people are just tolerating you for now... However, you're stuck on silly - kissing their ar.ses, imitating them, and worshipping their gods smh...

smackimorn: 1st

Lol.isi azu.

cant beleive this still happening in this day and age!

smackimorn: 1st

Take N5 join go use am buy buns.

Mumu pikin.

Otu ochaa

shymexx: Christian extremists smh!!

Black man, you're on your own - Arabs don't like you, and white people are just tolerating you for now... However, you're stuck on silly - kissing their ar.ses, imitating them, and worshipping their gods smh...

Please accept Jesus Christ and not any white man's religion.

Time is passing fast.Tomorrow might just be too late.

One love bro.

I guess I will never understand some people

ETA: "Police have announced that they believe a Winnsboro woman fabricated a story about being attacked and burned Sunday night at Civitan Park in Winnsboro by three men who wrote 'KKK' on the hood of her car."

smackimorn: 1st

Isi mmbe...

#kai.... And to think dat the american president is black....

deejay_harry1: #kai.... And to think dat the american president is black....

And to think.. a lot of people voted for him simply for that fact.

Seems like she was lying.

adieora:

Lol.isi azu.

Lmao

Racism of the highest order.

It happened in my city thou.

I don't know how many times I will stress this on NL. DO SOME RESEARCH ON POSTS . dont take everything you see



"A Louisiana woman who told police she was subjected to a racist attack in which three men set her alight and scrawled KKK on her car was lying, investigators have said.
"The wounds were self-inflicted," Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI's Louisiana bureau said.
Sharmeka Moffitt, 20, was seriously burned in the incident and remains in critical condition.
She called police from a park in the town of Winnsboro on Sunday night and told them three men in white hoodies doused her with a flammable liquid and ignited it.
The letters KKK, for the white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan, and a racial slur were scrawled on her car in what appeared to be toothpaste.
According to local media, investigators decided the burns were self-inflicted after finding Ms Moffitt's fingerprints on a cigarette lighters and lighter fluid.
Louisiana's KATC News reported her family had issued a statement saying: "Our family is devastated to learn the circumstances surrounding our daughter's injuries.
"While this was not the resolution we had expected, it is a resolution, and we appreciate the thorough investigation by the local and state police as well as federal agencies.. .."

Get the complete story here

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-set-herself-fire-staged-kkk-attack-224411299.html

Persecution, racial and segregation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNP0RGfxZ6Q

Ku Klux Klan sets Afro-American woman on fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcabHQetxUU

Ku Klux Klan has set an Afro-American woman on fire in yet another act of racism.

Horus, enough of that nonsense! she was lying

HABA!! why you carry am for head?

Area_boy: Horus, enough of that nonsense! she was lying

HABA!! why you carry am for head?

Tell that to the tv medias who are brodcasting the news not me.

Area_boy: She is obviously mentally unstable cos I'm not sure if her intention is to give the clan a bad name?

Is there name Good before? or do they stand for anything good? SMH

shymexx: Christian extremists smh!!

Black man, you're on your own - Arabs don't like you, and white people are just tolerating you for now... However, you're stuck on silly - kissing their ar.ses, imitating them, and worshipping their gods smh...

Another senseless post..... You can't use a handful of minority(KKK), to judge a whole race.....

Hate is everywhere irrespective of colour... The Allu people that burnt student alive, are they not black people like you? Because Allu people burnt some student alive, is it now right for me to conclude that people from Rivers State are evil?


Just as there are KKKs(senseless thugs), there are other white people that have dedicated their lives towards making humanity better......

So Shymexx, try to think before you jump to conclusion.

Finland:
Is there name Good before? or do they stand for anything good? SMH

why are you quoting me out of context? Please make that quote again and include everything I said

Horus:

Tell that to the tv medias who are brodcasting the news not me.

you are the one searching old videos on youtube.. not the media giving it to you. Please update yourself on the current story regarding that woman and stop misleading people

The woman faked the hate crime. Nobody attacked her. Louisiana is predominantly black. Get ur facts right!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lepasharon: cant beleive this still happening in this day and age!

you kidding me?
the year doesn't mean a damn thing.

this will never change.

Area_boy: I don't know how many times I will stress this on NL. DO SOME RESEARCH ON POSTS . dont take everything you see



"A Louisiana woman who told police she was subjected to a racist attack in which three men set her alight and scrawled KKK on her car was lying, investigators have said.
"The wounds were self-inflicted," Kyle Hanrahan, a spokesman for the FBI's Louisiana bureau said.
Sharmeka Moffitt, 20, was seriously burned in the incident and remains in critical condition.
She called police from a park in the town of Winnsboro on Sunday night and told them three men in white hoodies doused her with a flammable liquid and ignited it.
The letters KKK, for the white supremacist organisation Ku Klux Klan, and a racial slur were scrawled on her car in what appeared to be toothpaste.
According to local media, investigators decided the burns were self-inflicted after finding Ms Moffitt's fingerprints on a cigarette lighters and lighter fluid.
Louisiana's KATC News reported her family had issued a statement saying: "Our family is devastated to learn the circumstances surrounding our daughter's injuries.
"While this was not the resolution we had expected, it is a resolution, and we appreciate the thorough investigation by the local and state police as well as federal agencies.. .."

Get the complete story here

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/woman-set-herself-fire-staged-kkk-attack-224411299.html

*edited* i just saw that ^^^^

this is sad

Finland:
Is there name Good before? or do they stand for anything good? SMH

lol IKR!!

Some folks never cease to amaze me.