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Ex-NFL player accused of staging hate crime, painting 'MAGA' and swastikas on walls

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It was them Crackers, the Whitey Maga came in and destroyed the place !!


Police in Georgia arrested Edawn Louis Coughman for allegedly staging the crime to make an insurance claim and sell off the undamaged appliances.

A former NFL player allegedly created a fake hate crime at his Georgia business in which he claimed burglars spray painted racial slurs, swastikas and "MAGA" at his bakery.

Edawn Louis Coughman, 31, was arrested Thursday on charges of filing a false report of a crime, insurance fraud, and concealing a license plate after he told police a burglar was responsible for spray painting racist language and imagery on the walls of his bakery, according to Gwinett County Police.
"It appears as though Edawn conjured a premeditated plan to damage his own property, attempt to make it appear as a hate crime, file a claim with his insurance company, and sell off the undamaged appliances and electronics," police said.
Photos taken by police at the scene show spray painted words and images, including the n-word, a swastika and "MAGA" ⁠— an abbreviated version of President Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."

Police said that they were called for a burglary report at Coughman's business, Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman's Creamery, in the Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceville on Wednesday night. The 911 caller told police that someone was driving a black Chevrolet Silverado with no license plate.
When officers arrived to the shopping center, they stopped a truck matching the description and saw Coughman driving the Silverado. It appeared that Coughman had several televisions in the back of the truck with mounting brackets on the back with "damaged drywall" attached, police said.

Officers saw the backdoor of the bakery had "yellow pry marks" and saw the graffiti on the walls was still wet from the paint.
"Several booth cushions were sliced open," the Gwinett County Police said. "They also found broken mirrors, cut wires, and a damaged video surveillance system."
Coughman told police that he saw the damage earlier in the day and called his insurance company, but not police. But investigators found the incident occurred much later than the former NFL player alleged.

A search warrant on Coughman's Silverado found a a yellow crow bar and cans of black spray paint in the truck.
Coughman never played in a regular-season game with the NFL, but was signed on to eight different teams, according to NBC affiliate WXIA. He also played nine games in 2011 for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts.
It is unclear whether Coughman, who was released on bond, has an attorney.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...g-hate-crime-painting-maga-swastikas-n1054591
 
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It’s an insurance fraud case. Thx...but...nobody cares. LOL
 
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Zaibetter said:
Double Duh... Because of what he used to try to claim it....does everything need to be explained to you Conway?
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He used spray-paint, wire cutters a yellow pry-bar … . Where exactly is the politics, according to you Zai?

My guess, but it's only a guess, is that you're pissed off that he used MAGA in the same way as swastikas, because to him they both signify people who hate. You need to get over that, because the despicable folks who took those four simple words and that ancient religious symbol and twisted them into symbols of their anger and antagonism, now must live with that meaning being the common one. So must we all.

It's still just a cheesy incompetent insurance fraud, not a political act, for all that one detail shows the company MAGA keeps in the minds of many Americans.

Oh yeah, and once again, LE did it's job, so everything is just fine. Apart from all the hate abroad in the land, that is.
 
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Kathleen said:
He's not. He's telling you of a fake hate crime used in conjunction with an insurance fraud. Much like saying Trump is against immigration, and neglect to add the word 'illegal', you leave out important details.




M-A-G-A. Thats the political part.

Just like Jussie Smollett, this guy is injecting politics into his fake hate crime. Its irrelevant if a swastika was used in the same manner, but it too is fake.

When real hate crimes happen, and they do all the time, people don't just address them, they exploit them.
But when a fake hate crime happens, and they seem to be getting more common, the response is to downplay the incident, and dismiss it.
Why???

How can you not be remotely objective, and see the harm to both REAL hate crime victims, and the misguided hate stunts like this do toward whites and supporters of Trump.
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But when the very rare fake hate crime is used to try to claim that all hate crimes are therefore fake, its very much not objective.
 
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Kathleen said:
He's not. He's telling you of a fake hate crime used in conjunction with an insurance fraud. Much like saying Trump is against immigration, and neglect to add the word 'illegal', you leave out important details.




M-A-G-A. Thats the political part.

Just like Jussie Smollett, this guy is injecting politics into his fake hate crime. Its irrelevant if a swastika was used in the same manner, but it too is fake.

When real hate crimes happen, and they do all the time, people don't just address them, they exploit them.
But when a fake hate crime happens, and they seem to be getting more common, the response is to downplay the incident, and dismiss it. They're the real deal.
Why???

How can you not be remotely objective, and see the harm to both REAL hate crime victims, and the misguided hate stunts like this do toward whites and supporters of Trump.
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If he committed a fake crime with some political purpoise, that would be a political act but simply writing MAGA, as fake vandalism, isn't political. We're in an election here: If he'd vandalized his store with 'Greens suck!!', 'May's a whore!' ? That's so far-fetched it would be in the 'Crazies Forum', not Politics.

But he sprayed MAGA, for the same reason he scrawled swastikas. Because the folks who wear that acronym have made it a symbol of something larger, scarier, more criminal and nastier than plain old democratic politics. If thats what Politics is to you, so be it. But it sure is sad.

If faked hate is so bad, then the models he's copying are worse. We've always had laws against the crimes, its's the haters who drive to rallies, and their leaders and who up to lecterns we have to do something about.
 
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Kathleen said:
He's not. He's telling you of a fake hate crime used in conjunction with an insurance fraud. Much like saying Trump is against immigration, and neglect to add the word 'illegal', you leave out important details..
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Unfortunately he doesn't get it....
 
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Kathleen said:
Agreed. But no reasonable person would ever suggest all hate crimes are now hoaxes.
Sadly real ones happen far more, than the ones that are faked.




Good point on your end. I agree the intent was insurance fraud. The problem, is even though he didn't intend making it political, it became that once he added the MAGA graffiti.
Once he did that, that act had consequences because every action, has a reaction. People learning of that story might hold Trump responsible, or hold resentment, even hate towrds him or those supporting him as a result.



IDK. To me, hate is hate. I don't buy into 'reverse racism' or think fake hate crimes are lesser.

What he did isn't worse than someone who targets someone else based on their race, sexual orientation or religion. But at the same time, it sould be equal, because it does generate needless hate.
The swastika is irrelevant, few people would sympathize with Nazis.

But indirectly making people who support a sitting president (MAGA) potential victims of an attack or become targets of aggression because of his actions warrants some sort of discipline.
The idea that Jussie Smollett didn't generate any ill will or anger towards Trump or his supports by his fans when his story first broke, is being naive. The idea that Smollett walked away with zero consequences for his actions, is a travesty. One I am sure the Chicago police would agree with.
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In fact since the election of Trump we have seen many examples of a resurgance of Nazi symbolism and sympathy, and a good deal of mixing of that extreme of hatred with what we once could call ordinary views.

You're welcome personally, to call the one symbol historic and now meaningless while the other is contemporary and pointedly directs hate at "some very good, fine people", but you'll have to convince others of that distinction with some logic or evidence if you want us to share it. Without that, it seems the simplest explanation to think the amateur fraudster simply copied whatever came to mind as 'what some random vandals might scrawl across a Black man's business", a fraudster equally innocent about Nazis as you say, and about MAGA.

Whatever 'hate' we're debating was never within him. He was just using it as a tool in his grift. It was always 'out there', in the general society as he saw it, and he though he could make that race-hate appear to be what lead to destruction of his shop, supposedly by by nazis and MAGAs.

Whatever your personal views, or mine, about either of those groups or sympathizers of them and their symbols and those who use them, there's no arguing he saw a world where haters would scrawl them on a business they were out to destroy, and he saw a world where others would believe that too.
 
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