{"id":132365,"date":"2022-10-19T11:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132365"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:44:10","slug":"investigation-finds-black-airman-faked-racist-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132365","title":{"rendered":"Investigation Finds Black Airman Faked Racist Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-132366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke-500x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke-500x279.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luke.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/investigation-finds-black-airman-faked-racist-text-messages-supervisor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Investigation finds Black airman faked racist text messages from supervisor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sub-headline speakable\"><em>Airman will face Uniform Code of Military Justice punishment for fabricating the exchange<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A\u00a0U.S. Air Force\u00a0investigation found that a Black airman in Arizona faked racist texts from a supervisor to claim skin color played a role in the service member being denied a special duty assignment, and he will now face Uniform Code of Military Justice punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The 56th Fighter Wing has concluded its investigation into reports that an airman was denied a special duty assignment by their supervisor based upon their demographic identity,&#8221; a Luke Air Force Base spokesman said in a statement Tuesday, according to Military.com. &#8220;Following an exhaustive investigation, authorities determined that the statements published did not occur and the text messages were fake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The controversy originated in May, when the Black airman sent screenshots of the alleged text messages to the popular Air Force amn\/nco\/snco\u00a0Facebook page\u00a0and claimed they were from a supervisor who denied the service member a special duty assignment. The post quickly went viral, leading to the investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-us-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\" data-ad-init=\"1\" data-ad-slot-rendered=\"1\" data-rendered-size=\"1x1\" data-google-query-id=\"CKKYvpvI7PoCFbRScgoda2kGBA\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wonder if this is a military version of Jussie Smollett?<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, nice try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation finds Black airman faked racist text messages from supervisor Airman will face Uniform Code of &hellip; <a title=\"Investigation Finds Black Airman Faked Racist Texts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132365\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investigation Finds Black Airman Faked Racist Texts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":132366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}