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A Colorado man who claimed that someone had stabbed him because he looked like a “neo-Nazi” fabricated the story after he accidentally cut his hand with a knife, according to police.

Joshua Witt, who has been arrested on false reporting charges, admitted to law enforcement in Sheridan, Colorado, that he lied to officers when he alleged that a black man had attacked him for having a haircut associated with white supremacists, police officials said Monday.

Witt’s original allegations went viral on social media this month, garnering press coverage across the globe, particularly from conservative newspapers that cited the stabbing as an example of violent leftwing activists attacking white people.

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Police also found footage of Witt buying a small knife at a nearby sports store.

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“He was opening up the knife package in the car and he cut himself,” Campbell said, adding, “I don’t believe he showed any remorse. Our take is he kind of made this up and it kind of got out of control when it went on Facebook.”

Witt was arrested last week and could face a fine of $2,650 and up to a year in jail if convicted of false reporting.

  Guardian

That's a pretty good cut for simply opening a package of a small knife.

Witt’s original claims earned sympathetic headlines from conservative news sites, including a Fox News’ report titled, “Anti-Fascist Stabs Innocent Man Over ‘Neo-Nazi’ Haircut”. As of Monday afternoon, Fox had not updated the story.

There's a surprise.

There have been similar high-profile stories of fabricated assaults over the last year. In the spring, two white hunters in Texas claimed they were shot by Mexican immigrants who had illegally crossed the border and tried to rob them, but police later said they made up the story and had actually fired at each other.

In Georgia, a white police officer said she was shot by a black suspect, but police said an investigation revealed that she had fabricated the shooting.

This is the haircut of a neo-Nazi?

It's the haircut of an asshole idiot racist.