I remember when this first happened and the cops came out to tell everyone that the story wasn't true and that this was a perfect example of why they shouldn't be so racist and gossipy.
See, people were saying it was SYRIAN refugees when really it was SUDANESE refugees, so the cops went around telling everyone to stop spreading lies. There are still people who think this whole incident never happened because of the cops' intentional weasel wording.
>The misinformation was so potent, the chief would later tell The Washington Post, that it threatened to compromise this sexual assault investigation as well as others in the future.
>Now it was up to the chief, in only his sixth month on the job, to set the record straight.
>“The No. 1 priority is the victim,” Kingsbury said. “We can’t forget this. We have a young girl who has been victimized.”
>But, he added: “There’s a lot of disinformation on social media. I don’t know if they made it up or what, but it’s just not true.”
>To begin with, the chief said, the victim had not been raped but was believed to have been sexually assaulted.
>Two individuals alleged to have been involved with the assault were arrested and taken to a juvenile detention center.
>The suspects were not from Syria, but from Sudan and Iraq.
>“There was no gang rape, there was no Syrian involvement, there were no Syrian refugees involved, there was no knife used, there was no inactivity by the police,” Loebs said, according to the Spokesman-Review. “I’m looking at the Drudge Report headline: ‘Syrian Refugees Rape Little Girl at Knifepoint in Idaho’ – all false.”
Of course, there was a five year old sexually assaulted by 7, 10 and 14 year old refugees who taped the incident and got in no trouble for their crimes. But they weren't Syrian and people spreading that lie made it nearly impossible for the police to figure out what really happened..