Brigham Young University Athletics said they found “no evidence” of racist heckling following an investigation into allegations made by a member of the Duke University women’s volleyball team. CNN’s Martin Savidge reports how Duke responded to BYU’s findings. #CNN #News
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Mommy forgot the game is on film.
Grandmommy
Godmommy
Trans mommy
Mommy GrandMommy GodMommy TransMommy someone filmed the game!
How many times are you guys gonna fall for this stuff?
As many times as they’re told to.
@Richard Reese In your brain rent free. Enjoy!
@Nunya Bidnis I don’t think you caught the sarcasm
@Richard Reese You’re right, sorry!
Juicy Smollett vibes all over this case.
@arizjones – You mean “Juicy??” Yea he’s special alright.
Dont forget Bubba Wallace. Or forget him either way they dont matter
So why is no outlet putting out the racist tweets from the grandmother who’s running for judge ??
u cant guess?
because it would show media bias
@David Frey u gotta be joking
@David Frey – Lololol, and CNN would never do that right? Riiiiight… smh.
It’s nice to CNN come back to this story and admit that they were wrong.
I wonder why said Nick Sandman!
Nope the title says it all
But CNN DIDN’T admit that they were wrong. They reported that Duke was wrong. There is a HUGE difference. It’s truly astounding that you don’t see that.
They never admitted they were wrong. They just said what byu said and what duke said.
How are they wrong? An entity investigating themselves is going to see there is “no evidence.”
Congratulations CNN, you once again made racism laughable
@Chris Albert yikes are you okay?
@Frank Rizzo I’m well, thanks. Not crying over a news coverage anyway.
Duke stands by their student athletes. I mean, unless they are lacrosse players.
@kay armstrong they got the other one wrong too honey
Touché lol 😂
@Rodney Williams do you even know what happened?
The man they banned was a special needs man who walked up to the players after the game because he mistook her for a friend of his (similar uniforms). She then blamed him for being the heckler because his voice “sounded familiar”. BYU banned him immediately but upon rewatching the footage found that he wasn’t even in the area or was on his phone when she was serving so it couldn’t have been him.
Also nobody, literally no one else, heard a racist slur being used. Not her own team, not the security guard set in the area after her first initial complaint, not the mostly black men’s basketball team sitting literally right there, none of the fans. NO ONE but her heard it.
And we won’t even get in to her Godmother who’s running for office being extremely anti-white.
@DeclaredJeans i reckon the people who go around saying god brother
@John Smith apparently, not even one of her DUKE teammates lied for her. That should tell you something.
@Gary who made up god brother? God parents haven’t been around for centuries so if the birth parents die the god parents can take care of the kids. It’s long held tradition with a purpose. Your god brother garbage is just a straw man argument
@Kevin Ouellette haven’t or HAVE? review your reply& edit as needed
@Kevin Ouellette My godbrother is just a strawman? Can you explain why you perceive it to be a strawman? Are you well studied in the culture of those who use “godbrother”? Is every meaning different? Most people I know who have multiple kids with different godparents for each one. If the parents die do the kids get separated? I also know people whos godparents aren’t even in the same household. Does the kid spend half his/her time at one household and half at the other? Need an expert on Godparents to explain.
At some point will journalists learn to apply some skepticism to accusations lacking evidence from the start, or are we doomed to watch them step on rakes like this until the end of time?
It was highly implausible that numerous people in a crowd at a volleyball in game in 2022 would be screaming racial slurs to begin with. It was even more implausible that if this had been going on that no one would get audio/video of it and no witnesses would confirm it. And yet it was treated as not just probable but as fact immediately. Now we get some very reluctant, half-assed skepticism after the story has been viral for some time. Probably this will be that last time CNN mentions it. It’s just not a fun story anymore.
@XaphillyatedX They shouldn’t be reporting accusations like this as fact to begin with. That’s the problem. But they always do so when it fits their priors. Stories like this are treated as too good to check.
This shouldn’t need to be said, but they are supposed to be skeptical of the things people say until they have evidence to confirm or disconfirm what was said. Determining what is and is not true is the crucial part of the job, not the passing along of whatever accusations people happen to make as fact.
In this case, there was no evidence and there remains no evidence. Yet they don’t even have the decency to acknowledge their error. They merely report that BYU found no evidence, as if it’s just a curious bit of trivia related to the story. They don’t even mention whether they themselves have been able to confirm the accusation or not. I guess that’s not something they are interested in doing.
For some reason this is just fine with you. I wonder why.
@Kenia Mcguire hopefully the person who was banned sues the school and this liar who falsely claimed racism.
Her biggest mistake was claiming the harassment was constant throughout the game. No way there wouldn’t be a ton of evidence on video, or multiple witnesses. What a sad state of affairs we have in this country.
@Jake Lloyd it’s actually quite hard to just being human alone
It’s built into us to lie toman extent
@Elden Ringer Because victimhood is a hot currency, and she wasn’t getting racism in real life
@Ad Dajjal Son of Allah Yes, the temptation to lie is omnipresent. But the want to lie does not excuse the action of lying.
No, she is a subpar volleyball player who should have never even made the team bc she obviously lacks the skills. She happened to have been raised without morals or values and to feel entitled to things you haven’t earned and to lie cheat and steal with impunity to deflect from your own failure. It’s unfortunate because I’m sure she’s a lovely young woman with potential yet just a product of her environment.
Her and her family were very quick to absorb the national spotlight before it was all vetted
Multiple family members on tv. Another tell-tale sign: Right out of the gate, the player was using woke language. For example, she says she felt “unsafe.” LOL
Yep, and corporate “journalism“ was all too eager to help them.
Wokeness serves multi billion dollar news industries more than anyone.
This is the way.
The family member who initially put the story out on Facebook, of all places, is running for public office lol I didn’t believe it from the beginning when I heard this.
The player Lied, she should be held accountable! A public apology, kicked off the team, at least!!
1 alex kulka Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaw4ksxf2ic
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
She was the only one that heard this? With all the cameras and people there nobody caught or heard anything….
1 Austin butler Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaw4ksxf2ic
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
Here’s the thing — Anyone who knows ANYTHING about LDS culture — even those who say we’re not Christian– even those who WERE LDS and have left the faith and seem to almost have venom towards it, know darn well that there is NO WAY someone could shout out a racial slur at a BYU game, a 98% LDS crowd, and get away with it– particularly if as Ms. Richardson claimed, it happened over and over again, and particularly when it was loud enough that even with all the screaming that happens during a game, a person on the COURT could hear it. First, if it was happening over and over again, someone would have started filming it and put it all over social media. Second- of the poor young man who was accused of this REALLY HAD start shouting racial slurs in a 98% LDS crowd, there would have been a SLEW of people right around him giving him a piece of their mind and trying to silence him. By the tenets of our faith, LDS people aren’t supposed to curse , ( racial slurs are not only considered evil and “racist” but are considered like curse words). They aren’t supposed to do drugs, look at porn, drink alcohol, smoke, have sex before marriage – they don’t even drink coffee for heaven’s sake. You’re talking about a campus culture where kids resort to using words like “fetch” and “flip” because using the “F” word is such a no-no. So whenever a member DOES do any of these things, they do it like teenagers– hiding it from everyone so mom and dad won’t find out. They’re not supposed to do them at all– so IF they’re going against the faith and doing any these things, they do it in hushed tones, behind closed doors, or off with their friends (who are ALSO hiding from mom and dad) somewhere out in the woods or on the other side of town where they won’t be seen or heard and won’t get caught– they certainly don’t do it out in the open where they’re going to be seen. And the CAMPUS is even MORE strict than the Church that owns it! Shorts have to go all the way to the knee. You can’t wear any piercings other than 1 set of earings, etc. They have a very strict dress code and a very strict behavioral code. So EVEN IF that young man HAD yelled out that word, it would have happened ONCE and he’d have been silenced and humiliated by the chastisement and stares of everyone around him, as well as the campus officer who was standing right near him. Ms. Richardson CLEARLY doesn’t know anything about LDS culture, which is the OPPOSITE environment for something like this to happen in the first place. She saw a predominately white crowd and an opportunity to FAKE a racist attack. She chose the wrong crowd to lie about.
The big part is there would have been video.
@Frederick “Leeallwaysbad” Sanchez Won’t show videos? What about the ones making accusations? Do they show any videos proving it? Everyone’s got a cell phone dude… Smh
No drugs or porn?! FOH
@TheMackoftheyear They are against this religion… doesn’t mean it never happens, just a lot less than in societies who don’t care.
To the individual that was slandered and banned. Please sue. The volleyball player won’t be punished because of narrative. Get a lawyer.
THIS!!
these professional victims need to be held accountable.
They interviewed duke athletic personnel.
Why haven’t any other duke players spoken out that they heard the slurs? They were on the same court right?
Didn’t happen. She may have thought she heard something but she absolutely lied and exaggerated and all while absorbing the national spotlight.
Zactly.
She said race heckling during whole match, and said team mates heard it. But ZERO statement from team mates
Or from black Duke athletes seated in student section. You can scream nword during whole match only 1 if 5000 people here it
Oh yeah n physically threatened after game.
The fact that she said she saw an “opportunity “ says she is lying!
If Duke’s volleyball players are “exceptionally strong women,” why do they need to cry wolf when they start losing a volleyball game??? 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine how painful it was for CNN to have to run this segment of the story
For many of their “journalists”, probably. But as an organization, their own CEO is declaring that he wants to make their news-reporting more truthful.
@henry t The new ceo
Love how the media ran with this story right away and never questioned that the Duke player is the only person in the arena that heard the supposed racial slurs. Do they think that all the BYU supporters were in cahoots and protecting the person “yelling out slurs” that nobody else on the Duke team heard?
Anything for clicks and ratings.
Who cares if you tarnish the name of a University or it’s fans, as long as you get the salacious story out there for those sweet, sweet clicks and views.