Allentown City Employee Caught in Noose Hoax, Faces Charges

It's getting to the point that whenever we read or hear of another racist incident, such as a noose, racist graffiti, or threatening note, we sit back and wait for it to be revealed as a hoax. Case in point: In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city employee, LaTarsha Brown, claimed to have found a noose on her desk.

Now she's in trouble because she allegedly put it there and made a false report.

Allentown officials announced charges Monday against a city employee, alleging that she made a false police report and tampered with evidence after reporting she found a noose on her desk in January.
LaTarsha Brown, who works for the city’s community and economic development department, faces charges of making false reports, a third-degree misdemeanor, and tampering with and fabricating physical evidence, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
City police in January announced an investigation into an incident where a city employee, later identified as Brown, found an item resembling a noose on her desk when she reported for work in the morning. A group of activists several days later held a protest outside City Hall, calling for justice and accountability and labeling the incident a hate crime. City officials announced two days after the protest that the FBI was involved in the investigation.

DNA, as it happens, is a harsh mistress.

However, a few weeks into the investigation in late January, a Lehigh County judge approved a search warrant for Brown’s DNA. An affidavit alleged that Brown was not cooperating with the investigation, made “vague statements and gave deceptive answers” to investigators and refused to voluntarily provide a DNA sample.
According to the affidavit supporting the charges against Brown, only her DNA was found on the outside of the noose and the inner knotted portion when it was untied. DNA also had been collected from nine other employees who were identified as being on the third floor between the time Brown left the night before and when she found the noose. None was a match. Police said the other employees voluntarily gave DNA samples.

Why would someone initiate a pathetic hoax like this?

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There could be any number of reasons. LaTarsha Brown may simply be attention-seeking, looking for her personal fifteen minutes of, if not fame, then notoriety. In that, she has succeeded, although perhaps not in the way she would have liked. She may have been hoping to leverage the event into a promotion, or some kind of settlement from the city - but it's hard to credit anyone thinking there wouldn't have been any kind of investigation.

LaTarsha Brown is, somewhat surprisingly, still employed by the city, although that may not last if she is found guilty - at least, we should hope not, as this seems rather obvious grounds for dismissal.

Brown, who also is a member of the Allentown School Board, is still employed by the city; officials did not comment on the future of her employment when asked. Police Chief Charles Roca would not speculate on a motive.
Brown is scheduled for a preliminary hearing April 22 before Magisterial District Judge Karen Devine.

And she's on the school board. Oh good.

My Old Man used to say that dishonesty is its own punishment, and as usual, he was right, but in this case, there will be more consequences for LaTarsha Brown than just embarrassment. That's as it should be.

This seems appropriate.

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