{"id":13,"date":"2006-04-27T04:36:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T08:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2021-02-08T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:54:03","slug":"alleged-hate-crime-victim-asked-to-take-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/alleged-hate-crime-victim-asked-to-take-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Hate Crime Victim Asked to Take Polygraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOOD TV news reporter <a title=\"Brad Edwards, WOOD TV News\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060316023706\/http:\/\/woodtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=1454068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Edwards<\/a> reports on the case of Jason Burns, who reports that he was punched on the campus of <a title=\"Hope College\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hope.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hope College<\/a> in Holland, Michigan by two men who taunted him because he is homosexual. After he reported the attack, Holland police asked Burns to submit to a lie detector &#8220;test.&#8221; See, <a title=\"Alleged hate crime victim talks about incident\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061111044220\/http:\/\/www.woodtv.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4821753\">&#8220;Alleged hate crime victim talks about incident.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOOD TV news reporter Brad Edwards reports on the case of Jason Burns, who reports that he was punched on the campus of Hope College in Holland, Michigan by two men who taunted him because he is homosexual. 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