No evidence

For the past few months she's been held up as an example of racial animus in Madison. She said 4 men sprayed something flamable on her through her car window and set it on fire--and she presented with genuine burns.

But the picture of her car at Gorham and State shows nobody nearby.

I was dubious from the get-go. The description of the "attack" didn't sound like something that would work unless you were not just standing next to somebody, but able to keep them from fleeing. 4 pedestrians, from the side of the road, spray bottle, though the driver's window? No.

The article includes a line "Bernstein said the attack happened at around 1 a.m., or about 20 minutes after a group of people threw a Molotov cocktail through a window of the City-County Building in the Downtown, starting a small fire." The molotov cocktail part isn't particularly relevant--the photos show her car coming down Gorham from a bit farther east, and if she'd been involved the hospital would have been easier to reach from John Nolan.

So she lied. The burns were real--and were presumably from something she didn't want to explain to people. It doesn't seem likely to have been the firebombing--and gasoline would have probably made much worse burns.

Update: If you're curious, the police records are here. Personal info, including medical, is redacted from the documents, which makes the some of the documents pretty useless to us. The police also included testimony from people who claimed to have information--one woman was told by the Holy Spirit who the culprits were and where to find them. They found some residue on her shirt consistent with lighter fluid, but no burns in the car. A quick googling turned up a possible alternative to her story.