According to both The Morning Call and LehighValleyNews, Allentown employee LaTarsha Brown found what appeared to be a small noose on her computer when she reported to work on Friday morning. She just happens to be the very employee who has made multiple accusations of racism and harassment at City Hall. City Council member Ce-Ce (from DC) Gerlach was quick to call the incident a "hate crime." An investigation by Allentown police isn't good enough for outraged activists, who want to involve the FBI in tracking down the bigot who supposedly placed this symbol of racial hatred. In addition to investigating a possible hate crime, I'd suggest that police or FBI or INTERPOL look into another possibility as well. - false reports.
While possible, I find it hard to believe that someone would place a noose on the computer of a city employee who has repeatedly claimed that she and others are victims of racism. It's equally possible that it was placed there in an attempt to make the allegations of bigotry seem more credible. Another reason for the hangman's noose is to strangle Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk's quest for re-election. Several members of City Council would be pleased by that outcome.
Here's what neither news account has revealed. This was reported to authorities by a City Council member who just happened to be at City Hall on a Friday morning at 6:30 am. Though Council's meeting room is on the first floor, and city council offices are on the fifth floor, this City Council member was on the third floor, where this employee's office is located and where there are no cameras. What the hell was this person doing there? If there in response to a tip, who did that come from?
Elected officials and city employees are issued ID cards and can enter City Hall at any time, but there is a record of it. And there are cameras on the first floor and entrances.
I'm unwilling to identify this City Council member at this time, but this person is no friend of Tuerk or his re-election efforts. It will come out with the wash. For now, I'll leave you hanging.
Blogger;s Note: Michael Molovinsky has a related story about the politics of racism.
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We have our own Jussie Smollett
In today’s world, these things almost always end up being a hoax, usually to promote a political narrative.
Nobody with whom I've spoken believed this story for a second. That's the problem with false accusations, like Los Angles Mayor Bass blaming criticism of her disaster management on her being a black woman. Real racist crap will be dismissed now, as well. I don't "believe all women," either, since Duke lacrosse. These are the wages of fake charges. The good news is that we're getting better at spotting liars.
Of course it's a setup. Matt Tuerk is a fourth degree blackbelt in virtue signaling; a charge of racism is the greatest way to get under his skin and that is what those running game are seeking to do. Plus there is good money to be made in the grift of federal recovery from exploiting the law in terms of harassment especially when race is the focal point.
Racism does exist but it certainly is not limited to one demographic hating all others. Hate is a fairly universal emotion and hating those in another tribe is super common.
Now, there certainly will be card swipes for door entry and ancillary video that can establish presence of a council member at odd times in odd places. Hopefully this information is discovered and published to the world through a press conference. Let the "find out" phase begin.
If ce ce is involved, you know it is BS.
Sounds as if we have a Jesse smollets in allentowns ranks.
you lost me at "The Morning Call" Doesn't the FBI have better things to worry about like the identity of a pipe bomber that tried to kill Kamala Harris?
Bernie solved the case! Is it really that easy to see? Of course it is. The “victim” just so happens to have a hard time doing her job, and of course that’s because of racism. So why not Jussie Smollett this with the help of a few council members and leak it to the media to get the mob fired up. Great strategy Ed and CC.
Reminds me of the Nascar incident a couple of years ago, that drew so much media attention, which ultimately turned out to be a garage door rope.
Bernie mentioned that the council member was in at 6:30 AM. I think that pretty much rules CeCe out. She doesn’t strike me as an early riser.
Charging other persons and groups as being racist has very little effect anymore. Sorry, folks. The race card has been played so many times now it has lost all shock value and really doesn’t frighten anyone.
I just saw tv news video of the protests. Why are these protesters outside with megaphones instead of being at work? Do they work second shift? I think people know the answer.
The FBI has better things to investigate. didn't the FBI director go on 60 mins and claim China is going after our infrastructure and other important things. Maybe they can look into that rather than this nonsense. Will she take a lie detector test?
WFMZ should do the world a favor and mute the microphone whenever C(riminal) C(lueless) Gerlach speaks.
8:18 - Given the clowns and the circus that is Allentown and the city council, I wouldn't be surprised that the item in question was really a yo-yo string.
Why is CeCe speaking for the city. ???
I wondered the same thing. She was the one who named the victim, according to the news report. And both she and Zucal are disclosing information that I would think would be confidential, such as saying she made previous complaints and was scheduled for a meeting the previous day, as reported in the news.
Let's see. Although he's kind of a creepy dude, it wasn't Hendricks. Mota is lazy and clueless. Santos is too young and was probably still sleeping at that time. Napoli, no. Being an ex cop I doubt it was Zukal. That leaves Affa and Me Me. Affa was probably at breakfast with one of her female friends and that leaves the jobless troublemaker Me Me Gerlach as the prime suspect.
Interesting wording, but seems most plausible. Zucal would know what a camera is, and anyone dumb enough to drop off a youth at a homeless encampment, well, probably wouldn't have the thought to look for cameras...
Maybe the issue is the people you surround yourself with to support your racism denying rhetoric???
Understand that there is no penalty for perpetrating such frauds. The standard institutional response is to give the racial racketteers everything they demand immediately in a rush to beat the investigation conclusion to the press. I suspect that the police and DA hold off for this purpose; to give the hoax a few days to breathe and settle in as a "fact". Then, after the reveal, a speech is delivered by which it is averred that, though we dodged the bullet of Systemic White Supremacist Heteronormative Terrorism this time, the falseness of this incident does not fairly characterize the vast majority of "hate" incidents which are very, very real (though they are the same each time). This is a time for "healing as a community" and falling in line behind the agenda of the hoaxers, who must not be characterized by this lapse into excessive zeal in the cause of True Justice.
If you attempt to hold the hoaxer accountable, you will be accused of insensitivity to the trauma the hoaxer experienced by her commission of the hoax. Indeed, your assumption that the hoaxer is at fault for perpetrating a malicious fraud rooted in antiwhite hate will be punished as the crime of White Supremacist Heteronormative Cis-Terrorism the hoax was intended to uncover. These are the wages of making sacred cows of just ordinary brown cows.
Every 2nd-tier city has something like this: a coven of brown single-mom community college bolsheviks doing race racketeering instead of their official roles because they were taught that racial racketeering is what governing is.
I hope this clears Tuerk’s name and he cruises to re-election. That way he can put the election behind him and spend his time running for Congress.
When you sleep with dogs your gonna get fleas
To end your reporting with an awful attempt at a joke, "For now, I'll leave you hanging", is tone deaf and beneath you.
No it's not, lol. I am, after all, a bottom-feeding blogger
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