"A well-known Black Lives Matter activist reportedly ruined a University of Virginia student’s life over what now appears to be a false accusation, surprise, surprise.
The drama traces back to the summer of 2020, when Morgan Bettinger, a white senior at UVA, was driving home from work when she stumbled on a Black Lives Matter protest.
Next to the protesters was a dump truck whose owner had reportedly parked the vehicle there to protect the protesters.
During a conversation with the dump truck driver, Bettinger said, “It’s a good thing that you are here, because otherwise, these people would have been speed bumps.”
“While she says she doesn’t remember her exact words, she maintains that her comment was intended to thank the driver for protecting the protesters, many of whom were sitting in the middle of often-busy East High Street,” according to Reason magazine, which broke the story.
But evidently, one of the BLM protesters, UVA student Zyahna Bryant, misheard Bettinger say the protesters would make “good f–king speed bumps,” and then told everybody else.
“The woman in this truck approached protesters in #Charlottesville, and told us that we would make ‘good speedbumps.’ She then called the police and started crying saying we were attacking her,” Bryant wrote on Twitter.
“Bryant also posted a series of videos—not of the alleged ‘speed bump’ comment itself, but of its aftermath. In the videos, an SUV reverses down a street while Bryant and several other protesters follow. ‘It’s a Karen, it’s a Karen,’ Bryant taunts,” according to Reason
- All hell then broke loose, with other students and local “journalists” — of course — all jumping on the bandwagon and calling for punishment, with Bryant leading the charge....
- ,,,“Bryant has thrived since the incident. She received a glowing Washington Post profile in 2021, and last year she was named to Ebony’s ‘Power 100’ list and was featured in a Juneteenth-themed post on Instagram’s official page,” Reason notes....
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