THIS DECADE'S 'TAWANA BRAWLEY' BUSTED

Shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, [the Durham, N.C.] police received a 911 call about a domestic dispute at 2220 Lincoln St. Authorities said they believe the call came from one of the three children inside the house When officers arrived, they found [the suspect] and her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, fighting. According to police documents, [the suspect] scratched, punched and threw objects at Walker and told him, "I'm going to stab you, motherfucker!" She then went into a bathroom and set his clothes on fire in the bathtub, police said. Officers called the fire department to put out the flames.

And who was the suspect in this case? None other than Crystal Gail Mangum, the stripper who in 2006 made false allegations of gang rape against members of the Duke University lacrosse team. Police charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer. She is in the Durham County jail under a $1 million bond.

Let’s refresh ourselves with the Duke “rape” case. Mangum accused three Duke lacrosse players of gang raping her during an off-campus frat-like team party.

Mike Nifong, the politically motivated prosecutor relentlessly pursued the charges filed against the accused players, despite mounting evidence that they were innocent. The Duke administration immediately fired the lacrosse coach, cancelled the lacrosse season, and suspended the falsely accused students.

88 Duke faculty and staff members, "The Group of 88," led by professors from the African and African-American Studies department, took out a full page ad in Duke's student newspaper vilifying the lacrosse players as racist and sexist white privileged hooligans.

Al Sharpton and Jessee Jackson were quick to jump on the Crystal Gail Mangum bandwagon. Their presence at demonstrations for "racial justice" in Durham helped to further fan the flames of racial hatred.

The families of the accused players faced near financial ruin in trying to defend their sons. Though falsely accused and declared innocent of all charges, the players will forever carry the stigma of accused rapists.

So what’s happened to Mike Nifong, the malicious rogue prosecutor in the Duke rape case? He was sentenced to serve 24 hours in jail for criminal contempt by intentionally lying to the court about the rape case when he told a judge that he had turned over all DNA evidence to the defense. (He could have and SHOULD HAVE been sentenced to 30 days.) Then he was disbarred.

What about Duke University President Richard Brodhead and his cohorts who were so quick to rush to judgement? The families of 38 of the lacrosse team's 47 members who were not accused filed a lawsuit against Brodhead and other defendants for multiple claims of harassment, deprivation of civil rights, breach of contract and other claims. “The Group of 88” escaped unscathed while adamantly refusing to apologize for their vilifying attack on the lacrosse players.

And what about Jackson and Sharpton. These charlatans disappeared into the darkness once the rape hoax had been exposed, which is typical of these two rabblerousing phonies once they’ve stirred up a pot full of racial hatred.

Crystal Gail Mangum is a worthless piece of trash. She is the Tawana Brawley of this decade. Sharpton took on the leading role in the 1987 Tawana Brawley hoax in which the 15-year-old black girl falsely accused six white men, including a police officer and a prosecutor, of having abducted, raped, tortured and smeared feces all over her. As a result of the false charges and the harassment that ensued, one of the accused committed suicide.

The Tawana Brawley hoax led to fame and fortune for the reverend Al Sharpton. He has never apologized for his role in that tragic hoax. He and Jackson have never apologized for the trouble they generated in the Duke rape case. And since Sharpton has already achieved his fame and fortune, you will not see him coming to the defense of Mangum, this decade’s Tawana Brawley.