Students Who Made Up Albany Hate Crime Sentenced to 3-Years Probation

Asha Burwell and Ariel Agudio, two of the three women who fabricated a crime in which they were allegedly beaten by ’20 white people’ because of the color of their skin, were sentenced to 200 hours of community service, 3 years probation, and a $1,000 fine for falsely reporting an incident.
The sentence was handed down earlier today by acting Albany County Judge Roger McDonough.
The two women had been facing up to two years in prison after being convicted on several misdemeanor charges.
Via WGY:
Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell have been sentenced for falsely reporting an incident in the CDTA/UAlbany bus assault that took place in 2016.
Neither will spend time in jail. They will have to serve three years of probation, pay a $1,000 fine, and perform 200 hours of community service.
Burwell and Agudio said that they were harassed and taunted on a CDTA bus in January of 2016. They claimed the incident was racially motivated. Authorities said that after looking at cameras from the buses and cell phone video from other passengers that in fact, Agudio and Burwell were the aggressors.
The third woman in the case, Alexis Briggs, accepted a plea deal after confessing that the story had been fabricated.
“You knew it wasn’t true?” Briggs was asked by an Albany County judge nearly one year ago.
“Yes,” she answered.
Briggs was sentenced to 100 hours of community service.
Burwell and Agudio both rejected their plea deals, a surprisingly stubborn move considering the mountain of evidence which showed their stories to be false.
Their story drove Black Lives Matter advocates and the local media into a tizzy.
Three young black women allegedly assaulted by over a dozen white men and women on a CDTA bus, all the while being barraged with racial slurs.
It even received national coverage when Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, tweeted this message of support for the story and the girls involved:
There’s no excuse for racism and violence on a college campus. https://t.co/ADVghl4iEv -H
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 4, 2016
We were among the first to report that the entire incident was a hoax, however.
On January 30th, one of the victims, Asha Burwell, tweeted about being “beaten because of the color of my skin.”
https://twitter.com/AshaBurwell/status/693330237560602624
The incident sparked protests at the school.
Protesters, including members of the National Congress of Black Women and the Albany chapter of Black Lives Matter, showed signs of support for the women, demanding change in the form of hiring minority faculty and providing sensitivity training for University police.
Burwell and her fellow alleged ‘victims’ gave tearful speeches on campus.
SUNY Albany president Robert Jones, before having any of the facts straight and going solely on what he heard from Burwell and her companions, issued a statement saying he is “deeply concerned, saddened and angry about this incident.”
Within days, cell phone video of the incident made it’s way to social media. The video, along with other footage screened for local civil rights advocates, didn’t seem to support the women’s claims of racial slurs being thrown at them, and in fact showed that Agudio, Burwell, and Briggs instigated the entire incident.
Numerous other camera angles were viewed by officials, and over 30 witnesses were interviewed.
Audio of the 911 calls surfaced shortly thereafter, with one catching Agudio twice saying of the incident that “I think it’s so funny,” before adding she “beat up a boy.”
As the call is transferred, Agudio’s tone changes almost immediately as she tries to tell the dispatcher that she and her friends “got jumped” in a “racially” motivated attack.
Additionally, the girl who had seconds ago said she “beat up a boy” now claimed that “we were three black girls beaten up by 20 white people.”
Audio of yet another 911 call involved Agudio saying “I think it’s funny how I had three b**ches down.”
In the face of mounting evidence that the three SUNY students had lied about the entire incident, their lawyers continued to insist that they were being “academically lynched” and claimed it would be unfair if they were kicked out of school.
Despite the gravity of their actions, actions that had the potential to start race riots in the city of Albany, the three women were still given a chance to atone for their crimes.
They were given the opportunity to accept a plea deal if they made a public apology to the students whose reputations could have been destroyed by their story. They refused, and the case moved to a grand jury which chose to indict them on elevated charges of assault and harassment.
They were acquitted on the more serious charges and had others dropped when it was determined some of the true victims in the case were unable to testify.
For their efforts in filing a false report, Agudio and Burwell will now check in with a probation officer for three years.
Whether it was their lawyers or their inner circle of friends that advised them not to take the plea deal, or simply apologize in the first place, these women certainly did not get good outside advice.
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