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Via Daily Caller:
The local reporter who first pushed the hoax that white boys pinned down a 12-year-old black girl and cut off her dreadlocks advocated for laws protecting the hairstyle hours before the supposed attack.
The reporter also used the claims by the Virginia girl’s family — which runs a “natural” cosmetics company that the reporter has previously promoted on air — as justification for the laws.
Amari Allen told her family on Sept. 25 that three white boys had held her down on the playground and called her hair “nappy.” Allen also said the boys called her “ugly” and an “attention-seeker.”