Hate hoaxes are fun and games for moonbats — until people get killed:
A Texas man who went to the media to denounce racist vandalism at his home was arrested by police for allegedly burning down the home and killing two people, including one of his relatives.
The accused hoaxer is Mario Raynard Roberson of Huntsville.
Roberson went to the media when racist vandalism was spray-painted onto his home after a heated neighborhood association meeting where members voted to ban the use of homes as short-term rentals in May 2023.
Any disagreement over anything with a person of preferred pigmentation is liable to end in accusations of racism.
The graffiti read, “We don’t like your kind,” and ended with a racial epithet. Roberson, who was described as black in a KTRK-TV report, said he would not leave the neighborhood and would stand up to the alleged racism instead.
But then the racists supposedly fired a gun through his window, before becoming even more racist and burning his house down.
Hoaxers engage in their art because crimes against protected identity groups are sure to get attention. But the attention is their undoing when police unravel what actually happened.
Prosecutors said that Roberson hired three men, one of whom was a relative, to commit the arson so that he could make an insurance claim on his property with State Farm Insurance. However, something went wrong, and two of the three alleged arsonists died in the flames, prosecutors believe.
The other one made it out engulfed in flames but survived to spill the beans on Roberson, who apparently thought he could kill two birds with one stone, both collecting insurance money and framing his neighbors as racists.
Please welcome Mario Raynard Roberson to the Hate Hoax List.
On a tip from Varla.