Three university students who claimed they were victims of a racially-motivated attack on a bus in Albany, New York, will now face charges for assault and falsely reporting to police on the alleged incident, NBC News reported.
The three black, female students at the State University of New York in Albany told authorities they were called racial slurs and "harassed and assaulted" by a group of 10 to 12 white men and women on a city bus just after 1 a.m. on Jan. 30, according to a statement from SUNY Albany President Robert J. Jones released at the time.
But, police said in a statement that evidence gathered during their three-week investigation showed the students' initial claims "that they were victimized, were false," and that the women themselves allegedly assaulted a 19-year-old female passenger.
