'Based on Bryant's immediate and surprised tone following the second third party's reply, EOCR finds it more likely than not that it was at that moment Bryant first learned that made a statement about protestors making speed bumps,' the report, obtained by Reason, stated. No eyewitnesses were able to corroborate Bryant's version of events. Most damningly, the report - which was brought forth because of Bryant's complaint - found that the activist mostly likely did not heard Bettinger make the comment first hand. Its 'jurors' told her that even saying the words in a harmless manner during the anti-racism protests of summer 2020 merited punishment.īryant also filed a complaint with the school's Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (EOCR), where the student activist claimed Bettinger had made the statement five times and had discriminated against Bryant on the basis of race.ĮOCR found that three of the five accusations could not be corroborated and Bryant herself later admitted she may have misheard the 'speed bumps' claim she attributed to Bettinger, which saw her reputation destroyed. UVA's Judiciary Committee later found Bettinger guilty of making a legitimate threat, despite being unable to prove Bryant's claim about her intentions. The allegation - on a profile that's now set to private - spread like wildfire.īettinger was quickly identified, with the revelation that she was pro-police - and with a late father who'd worked as a cop - further outraging her critics.īryant and others calling for a severe punishment or expulsion to be meted out to Bettinger.īryant embarked on an email campaign to have Bettinger expelled, tweeting: 'EMAIL these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences for her actions and that UVA stop graduating racists.'īettinger was subsequently shunned at college, and even stalked around her hometown, making her fear for her safety. But Bryant claimed Bettinger had suggested she wished to harm George Floyd protesters She insists she told a trucker blocking the road she was glad he was there to avoid a repeat of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, when a white supremacist struck and killed anti-racism protester Heather Heyer. 'She then called the police and started crying saying we were attacking her.'īettinger is pictured in her car during the July 2020 protest. She tweeted: 'The woman in this truck approached protesters in #Charlottesville, and told us that we would make 'good speedbumps. She says she did so because she was happy his presence lessened the chances of a repeat of the infamous 2017 Unite the Right rally in the city, which saw anti-racist protester Heather Heyer run over and murdered by a white supremacist.īut Bryant initially insisted on Twitter that Bettinger had indeed threatened her and others, even though it was later claimed she'd only been told about the speed bumps comment second hand. She claims she said words to the effect of: 'It's a good thing that you are here, because otherwise these people would have been speed bumps,' Reason magazine reported.īettinger - whose late father was a police officer - says she had merely been sharing her relief that the unnamed truck driver was there to protect the protesters. Zyahna Bryant, then 19, claimed she heard fellow University of Virginia student Morgan Bettinger threaten protesters by saying they'd 'make good speedbumps,' in July 2020 while George Floyd protests took place in Charlottesville.Īlthough Bettinger did admit during a student misconduct trial that she had said something similar to a truck driver that was blocking the road, she insists she hadn't said it as a threat. A celebrated Black Lives Matter activist ruined a white student's life by claiming she heard her threaten to run them over - only to later admit she may have misheard.
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