Duke Player Was Barraged With Racial Slurs And Threats Of Harm The Entire Game Against BYU

[Binger]

Yep on paragraph 1.

Your choice to connect the dots in paragraph 2. The media and the hives are hoping you do that.

And of course you hope #2 isn’t true or overblown. I got a house just down the street flying the CBF, houses sprinkled throughout my community with the CBF, houses sprinkled throughout my community with the Take No Quarter flag, and various trucks around town with Stars n’ Bars stickers on their back window. This kind of thing runs deep out here. Combine Southerners who moved out here with Mormonism’s racist doctrines and history, and you get a pretty strong DezNat undercurrent. crap, I had an in-law, without even knowing me, dive right into an anti-fedand Nazi apologetics screed at a dinner. Wtf. Dude is a temple recommend holding faithful TBM.

- Doc

Almost.

I don't want racism or racist symbols. I also don't want crap to be called racist when it is isn't. I am fine just dealing with the facts.

Keep those Dominicans handy for when the temple recommend carrying faithful arrive to preach. Smoke ''em out.

[Dr Moore]

So, no one but the one player ever heard anything? Including all present - teammates, coaches, and police after she notified and campus police was placed near the student section?

The original articles read like this was more open and shut.

[IHAQ]

Here is the players statement:

"Friday night in our match against Brigham Young University my fellow African American teammates and I were targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match," she said in the statement. "The slurs and comments grew into threats which caused us to feel unsafe. Both the officials and BYU coaching staff were made aware of the incident during the game but failed to take the necessary steps to stop the unacceptable behavior and create a safe environment."

Link

This appears to be claiming a bit more than an isolated comment.

[Binger]

So, no one but the one player ever heard anything? Including all present - teammates, coaches, and police after she notified and campus police was placed near the student section?

The original articles read like this was more open and shut.

Correct. And there appears to be zero corroboration with her teammates which is fascinating or interesting. Either, the allegations are true and her teammates played through the "threats of harm the entire game" and are now silent, or the allegations are a sham and her teammates are not going along.

Again. The player's statement says something happened and that deserves consideration. Witness and video evidence is not supporting the claim. The irony of this happening with Duke who reached settlements over unproven allegations of athletes, is, well, not ironic.

[Binger]

Why haven’t they named the racist fan?

Has Res responded to this? I have asked this same question?

It could have a lot to do with the liability of naming the fan and finding that the allegations are a complete farce.

[Dr Exiled]

This DN article give a little more depth to the story. https://www.deseret.com/2022/8/31/23330 ... volleyball

The cop thought the alleged perp was on the spectrum:

BYU Police Det. Sgt. Richard Laursen stood throughout the fourth set next to the man now indefinitely banned from BYU events after Duke players said he used racist language, according to a police report Laursen filed that night. Laursen said he believed the man may have “(A)sperger syndrome or could have autism,” according to the report.

The officer said the man did not use any negative language toward the Duke players during the fourth set. Laursen also said he didn’t hear any racist language used by any fan during that set, when Duke player Rachel Richardson said the racist slurs intensified.

“During the game and while I was standing on the sideline between the Duke players and the ROC section, I didn’t hear or observe any inappropriate comments or language from the ROC section,” he said in the police report, which BYU provided to the Deseret News after a GRAMA request.

Richardson responded:

“That’s just a part of sports,” Richardson said of the screaming and shouting by a BYU volleyball record crowd of 5,507. “You get used to playing through extreme environments like that. And very distinctly though, you know, I heard a very strong and negative racial slur.”

Richardson said she served twice during the second set. Game video confirmed that she first served in the set when BYU led 6-3.

“Then the next time I went back to serve I heard it extremely clear again,” she said of her second serve in the second set, when BYU led 21-15. “But that was the end of the game, and so we switched sides.”

The teams switched sides of the court at the end of each game, or set. BYU won the second set, 25-19. Richardson said during the switch, she told a teammate what she’d heard.

My guess is that there won't be a student or students coming forward to give more information about what happened and this will die in a few days.

[Binger]

The cop thought the alleged perp was on the spectrum:

There are other reports, just as much hearsay as other reports by the way, that suggest the person they nabbed did not make the alleged comments and was definitely mentally disabled or functioning with a disability.

There are reasons the person is not identified.

The story is coming apart at the seams.

[Res Ipsa]

Why haven’t they named the racist fan?

Has Res responded to this? I have asked this same question?

It could have a lot to do with the liability of naming the fan and finding that the allegations are a complete farce.

You’d have to ask them. I’m not aware of any obligation to disclose.

[MG 2.0]

This is just wrong on so many levels. When will privileged America wise up? Must we continue to prove that evolution in so many cases was devolution?

Questions at this point as to what actually did or didn’t happen. How many wrongs are you willing to list in regards to the BYU ‘incident’ at this point?

Unless some hard fast information comes out at this point it seems as though the whole incident…or non incident was way over blown. Or at worst fabricated.

The facts seem to show that BYU did everything right. At least from what I’m reading in the most recent reports.

If the evidence ultimately goes the other way and shows that students and adults were negligent, then I’m of course willing to go where the evidence goes. At this point it looks like you and a lot of others might have jumped the gun on this ‘racial slur’ which was purportedly thrown out on a continued basis at the game.

Not even a ‘one time’ has been verified unless I’m missing that bit of news.

I am at times amused at the impulsive judgement that folks jump to in order to virtue signal without knowing all the facts.

Reminds me of the times on this board where folks have come up with a ‘smoking gun’ of one kind or another to take down the church and loads of people jump on board. And then it blows over.

Regards,
MG

[Binger]

Looks like the “he” that I have been asking about has been cleared. Looks like this was sorta a hoax.

Will Philo and CNN and ESPN be issuing apologies and retractions?