Justice 26 Years Denied: The Real ‘Hoax’ in the Tawana Brawley Case
Allegations in 1987 by a then-15-year-old African American girl from Wappingers Falls, N.Y., that four white men in an old police-type car grabbed her off the street on her way home from school, took her to a remote area, drugged her and held her as a sex slave for four days before dumping her near the garbage-disposal area of a housing complex triggered a series of exceedingly irregular -- and illegal -- actions by state investigators and prosecutors that cast the teen, Tawana Brawley, as an out-and-out liar, her legal advisers as fringe-element wackos looking to start a race war, and the suspects as solid citizens with impeccable reputations.
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