{"id":1627308,"date":"2022-08-30T18:19:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627308"},"modified":"2022-08-30T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T22:19:47","slug":"video-casts-doubt-on-story-that-fan-shouted-n-word-at-duke-volleyball-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-casts-doubt-on-story-that-fan-shouted-n-word-at-duke-volleyball-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Casts Doubt On Story That Fan Shouted N-Word At Duke Volleyball Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-casts-doubt-on-story-that-fan-shouted-n-word-at-duke-volleyball-player%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/duke-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duke University<\/a> volleyball player claimed\u00a0a man repeatedly shouted racial slurs at her during a game last week, but video of the game does not appear to show the incident, casting doubt on her story.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Richardson, a sophomore at Duke, said a man in the stands \u201cracially heckled\u201d her and eventually threatened her during Friday\u2019s game against\u00a0Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fellow African American teammates and I were targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety\u00a0of the match. The slurs and comments grew into threats\u00a0which caused us to feel unsafe,\u201d Richardson said in a statement she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/morethanavolleyballplayer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#morethanavolleyballplayer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JJsofA6VgI\">pic.twitter.com\/JJsofA6VgI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 rachel \u2661 (@rachrich03) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rachrich03\/status\/1563931324569849856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richardson said game officials and BYU coaching staff were repeatedly informed about the incident, but failed to act both during and after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, my teammates and I had to\u00a0struggle just to get through the rest of the game, instead of\u00a0just being able to focus on our playing so that we could\u00a0compete at the highest level possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity to dig deep into\u00a0closed cultures which tolerate amoral racist acts, such as\u00a0those exhibited Friday night, and change them for the\u00a0better. It is not enough to indicate that you are not racist,\u00a0instead you must demonstrate that you are anti-racist,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation was initially made by Richardson\u2019s godmother, Lesa Pamplin, who said her goddaughter was called the n-word \u201cevery time she served.\u201d A police officer had to be placed by Duke\u2019s bench, she said.\u00a0Pamplin also said that later, on the way back to the team bus, Richardson was threatened by a \u201cwhite male\u201d who told her to \u201cwatch her back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pamplin is currently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LesaPamplinforCCC5\">running<\/a> for a county criminal court\u00a0judgeship in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m7yU_Lx-H28&amp;t=3s\">video<\/a> of the entire game posted on YouTube does not appear show anyone yelling slurs at any point, and so far, no cell phone footage of the incident has surfaced either.\u00a0The video also does not appear to show a police officer near Duke\u2019s bench at any point.<\/p>\n<p>BYU issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BYUCougars\/status\/1563616547880329216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1563616547880329216%7Ctwgr%5E65bd2979f510e837a55e071e850a445e10c5b600%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftbdailynews.com%2Fvideo-shows-that-duke-volleyball-player-and-her-politician-godmother-are-lying-about-being-called-n-word-during-byu-game%2F\">apology<\/a> within hours, saying they banned the racist fan, who was \u201cidentified by Duke.\u201d The person, who is not a BYU student, despite sitting in the student section according to the school, is now banned from all BYU athletic venues.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged incident attracted support for Richardson from several high-profile figures, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1563663546524876801\">including<\/a> LeBron James and Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need you to personally call my\u00a0Goddaughter. She needs to hear your\u00a0words condemning this abhorrent\u00a0behavior. Thank you,\u201d\u00a0Pamplin tweeted at Cox, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerJCox\/status\/1563738572431040512\">responded<\/a> that he would love to call Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>Pamplin has since made her Twitter account private, but she has reportedly tweeted multiple comments criticizing white people over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite women and men always disappoint,\u201d she tweeted in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbdailynews.com\/video-shows-that-duke-volleyball-player-and-her-politician-godmother-are-lying-about-being-called-n-word-during-byu-game\/\">according<\/a> to a screenshot of the tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Hoaxes involving alleged racism have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentary.org\/articles\/wilfred-reilly\/hate-crime-hoaxes-why-they-happen\/\">cropped up<\/a> frequently in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0most famous such hoax occurred in 2019, when actor Jussie Smollett staged a fake hate crime on himself in Chicago. Smollett told police that two men attacked him outside his apartment building, yelled\u00a0racial and anti-gay\u00a0slurs, as well as the phrase, \u201cThis is MAGA country,\u201d and put a noose around his neck. An investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2022\/03\/16\/jussie-smollett-jail-sentence-appeals-court-decision\/7064981001\/\">found<\/a> Smollett had paid two work acquaintances to stage the assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Duke University volleyball player claimed\u00a0a man repeatedly shouted racial slurs at her during a game last week, but video of the game does not appear to show the incident, casting doubt on her story. Rachel Richardson, a sophomore at Duke, said a man in the stands \u201cracially heckled\u201d her and eventually threatened her during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1627313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}