Hate crime hoax：Black girls caught lying about being attacked by racist Whites on bus

2016 - ALBANY - Three black University of Albany students who claimed they were victims of a bias attack while riding a bus have been charged with assault and falsely reporting an incident.

A three-week investigation by the university police uncovered a video that shows the students attacking a 19-year-old girl on the bus.

Two of them, Asha Burwell and Ariel Agudio, are from Huntington Station.

Investigators say the three students instigated the fight and continued assaulting the victim despite efforts by passengers to stop them.

Burwell said earlier in February that she and her two friends were physically and verbally attacked by 12 white men and women on the bus at SUNY Albany. She claimed it was racially motivated.

When the students first reported the incident, the president of SUNY Albany, Robert Jones, came out in their support and condemned the alleged attack.

"This matter is now in the hands of the criminal justice system," Jones said in a statement released Thursday, "I look forward to the resolution of this case."

SUNY Albany student Jeffrey Rosenheck, who is from Bethpage, says the president was too quick to side with the three young women.

"I feel that the president should send out an apology to the 12 students on the bus and the SUNY Albany community," Rosenheck tells News 12.

No one answered the door at either of the students' Huntington Station homes.