Fake hate crimes have been popping up across the country since Donald Trump won the presidential election on November 9th, and Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli’s son may be the latest culprit.
The New York Post reported on Thursday that Vadim Imperioli, the 19-year old son of the Sopranos star, was busted for spray painting a swastika in a dorm at Purchase College.
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Betsy Aldredge, a spokeswoman for Purchase, told the Journal News that the anti-Semitic symbol appeared at the school after the phrase “Black Lives Don’t Matter” was found in a different area of campus. No one is quite sure if the incidents are connected.
Both cases occurred around November 20th, a few weeks after the presidential election.
Is it possible the son of an Emmy Award winning Hollywood actor is a white supremacist?
That’s highly unlikely and instead was another hate crime hoax in the works.
Vadim wanted to be a performer himself, which would explain why he chose to attend Purchase. The school has an excellent performing arts program and is well known for being a very liberal campus.
He was also photographed in July wearing a “Harvey Milk for Supervisor” t-shirt. Milk was the first openly-gay elected official in U.S. history, hardly the clothes a white supremacist would wear.
So was Vadim an evil white supremacist? Probably not, he’s more likely to be a liberal kid upset about the election results and told to watch out for racism. As is the case in almost every one of these colleges, no racists appeared, so the social justice warrior had to create a phantom menace.
