The daughter of a police chief who was slandered by a Black Lives Matter activist and claims her former college damaged her reputation is now seeking vindication with plans to sue the institution for dragging her name through the mud.
Morgan Bettinger was driving on the road in the summer of 2020 when she came upon a George Floyd protest. The roadway was blocked both by people as well as a large truck. Commenting to the driver of the truck, she said she was glad he had made her passage impossible, otherwise, the people protesting “would have been speed bumps.”
Bettinger’s account is that the comment was made out of gratitude, reflecting the reality that people blocking streets put themselves in harm’s way as many drivers might not notice their presence on a busy thoroughfare. Indeed, she was observing that she may very well have continued into the crowd were it not for the truck’s presence.
However, one social justice loser with a history of BLM advocacy twisted the meaning of the words and suggested Bettinger had actually meant she would have intentionally plowed through the masses and was only stopped by the large vehicle in her way.
And, as often happens with these racialized narratives, it turns out the student activist was making it all up. But not before the damage to Bettinger was done.
The New York Post provided a recap of the early events, writing:
A well-known Black Lives Matter activist allegedly ruined a fellow University of Virginia student’s reputation, accusing her of referring to George Floyd protesters as “speed bumps” and threatening to run them over — only to later admit she may have “misheard” the offending comments, according to a report.
UVA student Zyahna Bryant, then 19, was already a high-profile activist when she encountered fellow student Morgan Bettinger at the July 2020 protest.
What happened next sparked a social media hate campaign in which Bettinger was denounced as a “Nazi;” school investigations; and a bid by Bryant to have Bettinger expelled, according to the outlet Reason Magazine.
The Post goes on to note that Bryant’s version included a retelling that Bettinger was out of ehr car and making threats to protestors. “The woman in this truck approached protesters in #Charlottesville, and told us that we would make ‘good speed bumps,’” Bryant wrote on Twitter.
The reference to Charlottesville harkened back to the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally that later became the launching pad for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign when he lied about Donald Trump not denouncing the KKK.
Bryant recorded video of the encounter and hurled the racial slur “Karen” at Bettinger as she tried backing her car up to evade the increasingly threatening mob.
In subsequent tweets, the BLM grifter demanded Bettinger “face consequences” for what she did at the protest. “EMAIL these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences for her actions and that UVA stop graduating racists,” she tweeted.
“A student disciplinary hearing concluded that Bettinger was guilty of making a legal threat against the protesters,” the New York Post added, before reporting that “a second probe found Bryant probably didn’t even hear firsthand what Bettinger uttered, and considered her evidence shaky.”
You don’t say.
“Bettinger eventually graduated from UVA but with a permanent mark on her record,” the Post relayed.
Bettinger said she now has plans to sue the college, saying the “whole situation has had a huge impact on my life.”
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