This Couple Lied to Cops About 3 Black Men Robbing Them Just for Fun--Now Facing Charges

It's a sad state of affairs when a person feels that they can blame a black man (or three) for a crime just because they feel like it. But that's what keeps happening. 

Case in point: A Minnesota couple is facing charges for making up a story that they were robbed by three African-American males while they were visiting Chicago. 

The couple claimed they were jacked of $5,000, an 18-karat platinum wedding band with a 2-carat diamond stone worth $12,000, an Apple laptop, a Burberry purse, a $3,000 Louis Vuitton luggage bag, and an iPad.

THAT WAS ALL A LIE!

Even worse?  Mager told investigators that one of the black robbers looked like the cartoon character “Fat Albert” and “reeked of marijuana.”

Thanks to surveillance tape, police found out that their story was made up and arrested them both.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Ryan Reiersgaard and his girlfriend Katie Mager showed up in Bond Court, where Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Carlson went into detail about how the two basically blamed each other for the outrageous lie.

“Reiersgaard stated that the whole scam was Katie’s idea and he just went along with what she was stating [to police]. He stated that he and Katie lied about the whole robbery and he doesn’t know Katie’s motives,” Carlson said.

Reiersgaard told investigators that he was only trying to have “some fun” on his birthday, according to Carlson, and acknowledged that “sometimes he and Katie’s shenanigans get out of control.”

SOME FUN? SHENANIGANS? THIS IS NOT A GAME!!!

Playing off stereotypes that Black men are criminals should never be something you do for fun, especially given what police could have done to these innocent suspects. 

However, Mager has a different take on what went down.  She told detectives that she “made a mistake, had bad friends and is sorry,” prosecutors said.  Miss Thang then had the nerve to tell detectives that she’d “only be honest with them if they promised to let her go home.”

GIRL...THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!

Both Mager and Reiersgaard are facing one felony count of disorderly conduct for making a false police report. 

They were released on $10,000 personal-recognizance bonds.

All we gotta say: LOCK THEM UP!!!