University of Virginia

Black Law Student Says FBI Pressured Him to Recant Racial Profiling Claim

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A young law student’s story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia in 2011 drew outrage in Charlottesville, a liberal college enclave that boasts of its inclusiveness.
When he recanted weeks later, he was branded a liar and an example of what’s wrong with affirmative action. One editorial writer called him a “race hoax hustler.”