QUINCY, Mass. — Once again charges have been leveled at the elusive phantom ‘black man” criminal who is responsible for a number of criminal offenses across the nation ranging in severity from simple theft to rape and murder. Who is this prolific underworld mastermind? He doesn’t exist. He’s just the scapegoat for other law breaking citizens, from mother’s who drowned their own children, as in the case of the deranged South Carolina white woman Susan Smith who drowned her two young sons and blamed it on a black man; to white men get rid of their pregnant wives as did Charles Stuart in October of 1989.
This time it’s a one-shot actress acclaimed for her tough-talking performance in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone. Jill Quigg is facing charges after she and another man allegedly broke into a neighbor’s apartment in Quincy just south of Boston and then tried to blame it on a black man, police said Tuesday, Oct. 19. Quigg and an male accomplice told police that they had come by stolen items in their possession in the course of actually stopping a crime and trying to right a wrong, being the upstanding law abiding citizens that they are.
According to Quincy Lt. Jack Sullivan, Quigg and Georgios Keskinidis, 28, of Lynn, were stopped near an apartment building and told police that a black man had broken into it and was running off with a 32-inch flat screen television and a new computer printer. The crime fighting duo told police they chased the man as he dropped the items and got into a getaway vehicle. The pair also told police they kept the items in Quigg’s apartment.
However, Sullivan said witnesses at the scene identified Quigg and Keskinidis as the ones leaving the apartment.
Both pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering during the day, larceny of more than $250 and wanton destruction of property worth more than $250. Both were released on personal recognizance. A judge ordered Quigg to attend a drug treatment program and to abstain from using drugs or alcohol.
When it comes to the giving someone the benefit of the doubt, apparently Americans are less doubtful that a black man may have committed a crime than a white woman or white man, or even a black woman.
Other notable false accusations against black men (and women):
Sept., 2010 Bethany Storro, a Vancouver, Wash., woman, makes national news with her bizarre story about a black woman who arbitrarily threw acid in her face, disfiguring the young woman for life. Storro later retracted the story. As it would turn out, Storro would be her own vicious perpetrator, not the imaginary black woman, whose fictitious identity was sprawled over national media.
April 2010 And then there is the curious case of 30-year-old Conrad Zdzierak, a bank robber who fooled Ohio law enforcement by wearing a Hollywood special effects mask that
disguised him as a black man. Zdzierak carried out six bank robberies — five on the same day, while local detectives were looking at black suspects.
May, 2009 Ú Bonnie Sweeten, a Pennsylvania woman was found with her daughter at Disney World after claiming they were abducted by two black men. Sweeten is believed to have kidnapped her daughter and made up the charge due to domestic tensions with her husband.
