Another False Gay Attack

From jsonline: After the alleged victim recanted Monday, police are dismissing an allegation that a volunteer for a GOP congressional campaign was beaten for being a gay Republican. 
As a result, the campaign of Republican Chad Lee said it was dismissing the volunteer because he had misled them about the alleged incident.
Before that Monday, the conservative website Media Trackers posted and then retracted a story that alleged that days before the attack the recanting volunteer had received threatening text messages from the husband of openly gay Democratic candidate for Congress Mark Pocan of Madison. The conservative website never checked with the Pocan campaign before running with the story. 
Tamara Packard, an attorney for Philip Frank, Pocan's husband, said Monday that her client had not sent any such text messages, didn't know the victim and was considering a libel lawsuit. 
The victim was not identified by Madison police but conservative media such as Media Trackers, the Daily Caller, Wisconsin Reporter, and Christian Schneider, a conservative blogger for the opinion section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel all identified him as Kyle Wood, a volunteer for the campaign of Chad Lee, Pocan's Republican challenger. 
The Madison police late Monday updated an earlier report they had released last week describing Wood's original allegation.
"In an interview this afternoon with Madison Police detectives, the victim in this case recanted his earlier statements in regards to this crime. This crime, alleged to have occurred on High Street in the South Police District, will be cleared as 'Unfounded' for case reporting purposes," the police statement read. "Once follow up investigation is completed, MPD's case file will be reviewed with the Dane County district attorney's office."
The Lee campaign put out a statement Monday night saying that Wood had been dismissed.
"Today, our campaign unfortunately learned that a deeply troubled volunteer misled police, news outlets, and our own team in regards to an attack at his home that apparently never occured," the statement read. "Our campaign dismissed Mr. Wood immediately and we will fully cooperate with the authorities as they continue with their investigation. As the Madison Police Department is investigating this matter, we cannot comment further at this time."  http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/176338211.html
How many times have we heard about attacks to gays, blacks, women and minorities and then it turns out to be false?
It makes legitimate cases of bullying and harassment less believable.  The people making these false cases need to be prosecuted for filing false police reports and sued for slander and/or libel.