ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI)-- A 23-year-old woman has been charged by St. Louis prosecutors with lying about being attacked by three black men in what she said was an incident of the knockout game.
Ashley Depew and her boyfriend 25-year-old Justin Simms came to police November 19th, claiming Depew had been attacked in a south side bar by three African-American men. She said it was apparently part of the so-called knockout game. Now Depew and Simms have been charged with making a false police report. Cops and prosecutors say they made the whole thing up.
FOX 2 did not report the story at the time because we had questions about the story. But other media outlets did. And the story caught fire in the blogosphere with several blogs and social media sites repeating the story and saying it was another incident where black assailants had attacked non-black victims in the knockout game.
Officials say the whole thing wasted valuable time and resources and created a climate of racial fear where there
The two are not yet in custody. The charges they face are misdemeanors.
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Trash
Julia Bowen
PURE TRASH! I hope they send them to prison. This is a very hot topic with lots of intense feelings about suspects and victims; to make this up throws gasoline on an already heated fire! Throw the book at them and send a very clear message that lying about these things will cost you dearly.
Jordan
You guys are stupid you don’t even know if this is true. How do people that werent even there know what happened. I have lost all Faith in fox 2 news
Bill Streeter (@billstreeter)
What up with the 4th graph? “Officials say the whole thing wasted valuable time and resources and created a climate of racial fear where there …” and? and??
Bill Smith
Good for you for not reporting it before all the facts were in.
NOW LOSE THE STUPID HELICOPTER WHEN I READ A STORY or I will go to one of the other two news outlets in St. Louis..
Channel 4 or 5
Emily Jenkins
Nasty city trash on the loose and broke!! Good Job City Police Dept!!
sara
I don’t understand the point in willingly going to the police and making up a story like this. They deserve to be charged but my question is what really happened because somebody messed her face up!
Tiffany Green
Her lovely boyfriend beat her up.
Dana Lane
Agreed. “To Kill A Mockingbird” anyone?
rherboth57@gmail.com
Yep Dana, another Bob Yule.
Warrior
Hey sweetums – I have a brilliant idea! Let’s pretend that I got punched in the face by some punks playing the knock-out game and make a false report to the police!
David Williams
a woman lying about something a man did?
Demarco Dennison
Not long before the TRUTH came out, many of you were ready to crucify the allege perpetrators. Suppose there was some type of racist vigilante justice? I think they deserve the extensive time behind bars…
Mike Thornton
The old “blame it on a black guy trick” Disgusting! Throw them under the jail!
kevin ickman
ok so what did happen to her???
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Aunt Ester
She should be charged with a felony and do whatever time a black male would have gotten if he did actually punched her in the face.