(ProsperNews.net) – A video has emerged showing that a man who claimed to be the victim of a violent homophobic attack was in fact injured when a woman he assaulted set him on fire. Scott Rowin said he was attacked by two men yelling homophobic slurs in San Diego. Local media described the horrific assault as “an evening walk turned into something from a horror movie.”
However, a San Diego newspaper reported that a pregnant woman was attacked in a street in the city, and she retaliated by setting her attacker on fire. The alleged attacker is Scott Rowin, the same man who claims he was targeted in a horrifying homophobic act of violence.
The video in question has not been made public, but according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, it “shows the initial physical assault by the man on the pregnant woman and the subsequent use of fire as a weapon by the pregnant woman on the man.”
Police did not say how the fire was started or how it was fueled. Investigations are ongoing in what officers described as a “complex case.”
Fake hate crimes are a common phenomenon, and according to a Wall Street Journal report in 2019, fewer than 1 in 3 allegations are genuine. The most famous of these involved actor Jussie Smollett. The Chicago resident reported early in 2019 that he was assaulted in a racist and homophobic confrontation. The apparent attack made global headlines, but as police investigated, they discovered that Smollett had in fact paid two assailants to perpetrate the incident.
He was charged with filing a false police report but all charges were subsequently dropped, leading to accusations of favoritism by Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx. A second investigation followed and Smollett was charged on various counts including disorderly conduct and filing false reports. He was convicted and sentenced to 150 days in jail and a $25,000 fine.
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