Police say an antigay hate crime reported at the University of North Dakota that made national headlines last month was a hoax.
18-year-old Haakon Gisvold (pictured) claimed four brothers from the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house at the University of North Dakota shoved him to the ground then proceeded to choke him, strip him naked, and beat him with a belt while shouting antigay slurs.
“I just want those guys to learn from this,” Gisvold told The Associated Press at the time. “They could go to jail, sure, but they could go to jail and then come out with the same mindset that they don’t like homosexuals.”
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Now, after a month-long investigation than included interviews with more than 150 potential witnesses, police say they believe the entire story was a fabrication.
Police determined that there had, indeed, been a confrontation between Gisvold and the fraternity brothers but that he was the instigator, he was not assaulted, and that he lied to police about the whole thing afterwards.
“He was not held down by four people, he wasn’t robbed, his property wasn’t taken, he wasn’t beaten with a belt, and he was (not) assaulted,” the police report states.
Investigators recommended Gisvold be charged with providing false information to authorities, but county prosecutor David Jones has decided not to file charges.
Gisvold has not released a comment about the findings, but judging from this recent tweet, he appears to be moving on from the incident juuuust fine:
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H/t: Grand Forks Herald
Cy
What an ass. County prosecutor be damned, the other four guys should be filling charges against this jerk for false allegations and defamation. This kid really needs to be taught a lesson.
Stephen Meeks
Jerk. This just makes us all look bad.
Michael Morang
Surprise…suprise
Wil Chaney
This is getting out of hand! It is now to the point, that I do not believe these stories at all, and that makes it bad for the real stories of abuse that will go unheeded because of this $hit.
Ummmm Yeah
Then we should beat his ass in the exact why he his lies described. Or is he even a guy? Looks like a girl to me. If so beat her ass then.
Cam
So Queerty has been posting articles attacking the Democrats for not being LGBT friendly, ignoring the multiple anti-gay attacks, and running posts on the one Hoax that has happened in months.
I get it if you hired one Log Cabiner for diversity, but it’s getting kind of ridiculous.
Giancarlo85
Wasting police time and lying to police should get him charged. What an ass.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Stephen Meeks: It makes him look bad. Why are so many gay men insecure? So, many are obsessed with the opinions of others, especially heterosexuals.
Stan Schulz
Shocker! Every time this happens people jump on board right away.
moldisdelicious
All these narcissists revealing themselves one hoax at a time.
Derek Perron
Why is the prosecutor not charging him with false statements and give by him a bill for the resources used ? As long as viral stories and celebrity is a thing this will keep happening
Cam
@moldisdelicious:
And all those bigots, revealing themselves one attack at a time.
Desert Boy
What a clown.
animaux
“Investigators recommended Gisvold be charged with providing false information to authorities, but county prosecutor David Jones has decided not to file charges.”
Meaning they have no evidence that he lied, apart from the other guys saying they didn’t do it.
sportsguy1983
Idiot. He also made his father look stupid because he came out publicly to support his son.
money718
Called it.
alphacentauri
@Michael Morang: Nobody should be surprised that this is fake.
Brian
The gay media got tricked again.
Ogre Magi
Faking a hate crime is one of the most loathsome things a person can do
scotty
he wishes the frat guys would hold him down and fuck him. im lamba chi from 1983 but not from that chapter and i called bullshit on this from the get go. faking a hate crime? stupid kid. you should be so lucky to be ravished by the brotherhood of lambda chi.
Giancarlo85
@Brian: Really? Care to prove that?
Cam
@Brian:
So in another post you are attacking anti-bullying messages and here you are gleefully trumpeting a hoax.
We get it, you are ant-gay.
liquidskyny
This is getting out of hand with all these hoaxes b/c when an actual hate crime occurs, no one is going to believe it and that and the news media won’t even bother with the stories of violence that actually do occur in our community.
BJ McFrisky
@Brian: It’s not the gay media, it’s the liberal media who are constantly on the lookout for perceived victims of evil oppressive hetero white men. Nothing new.
JessPH
I knew it! When this story was first published, i was already skeptical.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky:
I love it when two different screenames for the same person talk to each other.
SeeingAll
@liquidskyny: People have to remember to use their God-given power of reason. And healthy skepticism. There’s a very basic fact that not every story of abuse that comes out of someone’s mouth is true. And often the more exaggerated “exotic” stories of abuse are the ones that turn out false.
SeeingAll
@JessPH: But if you dared to express your doubts, you would have gotten the usual attempted verbal abuse: “You must be a Christian hater!!!”; “Go away troll!!”; “You must watch Faux News!” ; “You must be a Republican !” I’ve seen it again and again and again. No matter how unlikely the story is (like that guy in Delta, Utah, and his nutso story) the Gay Rule is that you HAVE to believe it, or else you’re a self-hating enemy.
Cam
@SeeingAll:
No, the rule is that BJ will come in here with all of his various screenames and always attack LGBTs
Thanks for playing.
SeeingAll
@Cam: you believed that silly Delta Utah story
Cam
@SeeingAll:
And THERE IT IS! “Seeing All” if you are going to pretend that you aren’t the same person under a different screename, you need to stop making the same comments as your other screenames.
Your other sreename kept saying the exact same thing to me. oooops, guess you forgot which name you were signed in on. Just to remind you, before it was BJ.
You make this too easy.
SeeingAll
@Cam: You believed this hokey frat story too.
Cam
@SeeingAll:
Oh, I’m sorry, did you forget to switch back to your “BJ” screename? Because that’s the screename that normally makes that comment.
Also, it’s funny, the last time I challenged you to please link to my comments that supposedly proved your point you couldn’t. Oooooops, I mean BJ couldn’t.
Giancarlo85
@BJ McFrisky: You’re a big fucking idiot. Thanks for proving that time and time again with comments like this one.
SeeingAll
@Cam: Well…maybe we ARE all the same guy. And we’re ALL correct.
Cam
@SeeingAll:
I said last time, post my comments and you couldn’t.
Oh wait, I said that to BJ. Well, then to you.
But again, all you do is defend anti-gay bigots and trumpet any article where gays are attacked, and gleefully revel in an article where someone gay has lied.
Do you see the level of self hatred being in the GOP has created on you? That can’t be healthy.
SeeingAll
@Cam: If you get annoyed by imagining people have multiple identities here you should just take it up with Queerty. They’ll probably check for you.