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Buffalo News
April 30, 2018
An East Side woman told Buffalo Police that an unknown man and woman, both white, damaged her car and screamed racial slurs at her Saturday afternoon. The woman reported that, at around 2:30 p.m. near the intersection of Fillmore Avenue and William Street, the man damaged her car with a hammerÃâà...
Syracuse.com
April 30, 2018
EAST SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Syracuse man seriously beat a 76-year-old man because the victim is gay, DeWitt police said Sunday. Police filed hate crime charges against the accused. The arrest happened on April 18 around 11:54 p.m. Police arrived at Highland Avenue to investigate an assault andÃâà...
WTOP
April 30, 2018
WASHINGTON — Officials at American University announced an update in the status of an investigation into what they called “a deeply troubling racist act” that occurred in May 2017. An unknown suspect hung bananas from nooses around the university's campus on May 1, 2017. President Sylvia MathewsÃâà...
WWBT NBC12 News
April 30, 2018
The investigation into a hate crime at American University in Washington, D.C. has reached a dead end, according to NBC Washington. MOREAdditional LinksPoll. Last May, someone hung up bananas in nooses around the campus with the letters "AKA," the abbreviation for the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Haaretz
April 30, 2018
Car tires were slashed overnight Sunday in in a suspected hate crime in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, near Nablus. Graffitti was also sprayed in the vicinity, reading "Let us take care of them." Israel Police launched an investigation but has yet to arrest suspects. Last week, five hate crimes wereÃâà...
PennLive.com
April 27, 2018
But whether it's a failure of police to file hate-crime charges or the chargers become the go-to bargaining chip in a plea deal, these so-called hate crimes seldom make it into state crime statistics. As a result, Pennsylvania, a state of 12.7 million, continues to have a chronically low annual reporting rate ofÃâà...
Haaretz
April 20, 2018
This is the fourth incident within a week in which property was vandalized as part of a suspected “price tag” hate crime – a frequency that has not occurred in months. Last Friday, unknown individuals attempted to set fire to a mosque in the town of Aqraba in the northern West Bank. Also last week, twoÃâà...
WJLA
April 20, 2018
On Thursday night, one of the victims of a brutal attack spoke publicly for the first time at a "Vigil for Justice" designed to bring together a community ripped apart by violence. “Thank you to this amazing, amazing community that has been very supportive for me and my friend throughout this" Michael CreasonÃâà...
Advocate.com
April 20, 2018
Many media outlets are claiming the attack on an Orlando gay club was not a hate crime against LGBT people. At the 2018 GLAAD awards, celebrities weighed in. By Advocate Video Team. April 20 2018 2:50 PM EDT. Share on Twitter Ãâ÷ Share on Facebook. Tags: Crime, The Pulse Shooting, GLAAD, Anthony RappÃâà...
Monterey County Weekly (blog)
April 20, 2018
A Muslim man of Egyptian descent is now claiming he is the victim of a hate crime in Carmel after he was attacked—by a Carmel man driving a 2010 Porsche Cayenne SUV—on Mission Street in downtown Carmel on Feb. 17. Amro Radwan of Fremont is suing Robert Terrence Budden in Monterey CountyÃâà...
Southern Poverty Law Center
April 19, 2018
It expanded the existing hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. It required the FBI to add gender and gender identity as categories of hate crimes it tracks. It gave the federalÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 19, 2018
A court in St. Petersburg has found 18 Russian men and women guilty of committing 36 hate crimes, including the murder of an Uzbek man in 2013. The Investigative Committee's St. Petersburg branch said on April 19 that the 18 will be sentenced in the near future. According to the committee, 14 of theÃâà...
Knoe.com
April 19, 2018
KNOE is using investigative journalism, social media, and law enforcement data to track and better understand hate crimes in our area. If you have been a victim of, or a witness to, a hate crime please let us know by using the form below. Please include your contact information so a reporter can follow upÃâà...
WTOP
April 18, 2018
D.C. hate crime statistics have not been updated yet for 2017. “I think one of the things to note about the hate crimes is most of the increases in our hate crimes are against property and not necessarily against persons,” Newsham clarified. The department released video of three suspects kicking two men inÃâà...
BBC News
April 16, 2018
Thousands of pounds have been raised to help a school for children with special needs which was targeted by vandals in what police have called a "hate crime". Slurs aimed at pupils were painted on the playground of Newcastle's Hadrian School and a minibus's windows smashed. Paint was thrown overÃâà...
KING5.com
April 4, 2018
A Bellevue police officer is currently under investigation for failing to intervene at the scene of a hate crime. Documents charging the suspect, Robert Panera, with malicious harassment detail the officer's inaction on January 23. Bellevue PD spokesperson Officer Seth Tyler told KING 5 that a complaint wasÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
April 4, 2018
The Maryland House of Delegates passed laws Tuesday that modify the state's hate crime law to include groups of people and require more wide-ranging data collection and sharing for an annual report on overdoses. Senate Bill 528 was passed unanimously by the House Tuesday and already received aÃâà...
The Retriever
April 4, 2018
According to the UMBC Police Department's Clery Report, a hate crime is defined as “a criminal offense that manifests evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator's bias against the victim.” Hate crimes towards a person's sexual orientation are also defined in the report asÃâà...
Foster's Daily Democrat
April 4, 2018
It is time to add hate crime murders to our death penalty statute, not repeal it. — Chuck Douglas is a former New Hampshire Supreme Court justice and is an attorney in Concord. As Legal Counsel to the Governor in 1974 he helped revise the death penalty law with then Attorney General Warren Rudman.
TheStranger.com
April 3, 2018
Bellevue officer allegedly ignored hate crime in progress: A man was threatening black people at the Bellevue Transit Center. He allegedly went down the line of everyone waiting for the bus, pointed out every black person, and hurled racial epithets and threats at them. An off-duty police officer allegedlyÃâà...
NJ Spotlight
April 2, 2018
The number of bias and hate crimes in New Jersey rose in 2016, mirroring a national trend that many people – including the state's attorney general – attribute to the campaign and election of Donald Trump. Attorney ... Racial bias was the most frequent type of hate crime, 171 incidents or 41 percent of all.
UNF Spinnaker
March 27, 2018
The report also states another hate crime took place in a UNF residential facility in 2016 regarding a student's sexual identity. No hate crimes were reported to UNFPD in 2015. In some instances, it can be difficult to know for sure whether the numbers accurately reflect the reality of the situation, as not everyÃâà...
WTHITV.com
March 27, 2018
Police investigate reported hate crime on VU campus. An investigation is underway after a Vincennes University student says he was the victim of a hate crime. Posted: Mar. 26, 2018 7:28 PM. Updated: Mar. 26, 2018 7:28 PM. Posted By: Chris Essex/WVUT. VINCENNES, Ind. (WTHI/WVUT) - An investigation is underwayÃâà...
New York Times
March 27, 2018
PARIS — An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France's most notorious wartime roundup of Jews has been murdered in Paris, and the authorities are calling it a hate crime. The body of the woman, Mireille Knoll, was found on Friday in her apartment in the city's working-class 11thÃâà...
Q13 FOX
March 26, 2018
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Police say investigators do not believe that a fire at a vacant mosque in Bellevue last week was a hate crime. Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett told a community meeting Saturday that those involved will be brought to justice, but he said there's nothing to indicate that the blaze wasÃâà...
Q13 FOX
March 26, 2018
SEATTLE – Hate crimes in Seattle is why more than a dozen women attended a workshop called “Hijabs and Harassment” in West Seattle. ... different things to people of different cultures, she is emphasizing that the Seattle police department is here to help women and anyone affected by a hate crime.
Patch.com
March 23, 2018
A former Burlington County police chief accused of hate crime assault, deprivation of civil rights under color of law and making false statements reportedly made a habit of responding to routine calls, even when off duty. Former Bordetnown Police Chief Frank M. Nucera responded to about 1,000 routineÃâà...
Metro Weekly
March 23, 2018
“We live our lives daily frightened being out there on the streets because of this violence toward transgender people.” —Karina Samala, chair of a Los Angeles City Council advisory board on trans issues, telling the Los Angeles Daily News about the “staggering” uptick in hate crimes against trans people.
fox13now.com
March 23, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — An Arizona man was convicted of a federal hate crime Wednesday for a racially motivated assault that occurred in Draper in 2016. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah states 59-year-old Mark Porter, a former Draper resident, was found guilty Wednesday following aÃâà...
Xenia Gazette
March 23, 2018
DAYTON — A federal grand jury has charged Izmir Koch, 32, of Huber Heights, with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in an indictment unsealed March 22. Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, and Angela L. Byers,Ãâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 23, 2018
One such hate crime was an alleged plot by three white men to bomb a Kansas mosque for Somali Muslim refugees the day after the election. ... The FBI has been collecting data on hate crimes since Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990 to collect information about crimes based on race,Ãâà...
Dayton Daily News
March 22, 2018
Izmir Koch -- also under indictment in Montgomery County involving a June 2016 fight on Valley Street in Dayton -- remains in federal custody following his arrest on one count of committing a hate crime under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, punishable by up to 10Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2018
Hate crimes rose significantly in the city of Los Angeles in 2017, with transgender people increasingly being targeted, according to a report prepared by the Police ... That was one fewer hate crime than in 2015, which saw a 24 percent increase from the previous year and the highest total since 2011.
BBC News
March 16, 2018
A rise in online hate crimes has prompted a major police campaign. After the number of hate crime files created last year reached almost 6,000, Police Scotland is urging young people to "be greater than a hater". Many cases involved social media being used for bullying, with fake accounts created toÃâà...
Nantucket Island Inquirer
March 15, 2018
African Meeting House hit hard by hate crime .... The Nantucket Police Department is now investigating the act as a hate crime. To read the complete story, pick up the print edition of this week's Inquirer and Mirror or register for the I&M's online edition by clicking here. For up-to-the-minute information onÃâà...
WABC-TV
March 15, 2018
A vandalism case at a church on Long Island last weekend will now be investigated as a possible hate crime, police say. Suffolk County Police Hate Crime Section detectives will take a closer look into the incident. On March 11, the face of a life-size statue of Jesus was smashed by vandals outside theÃâà...
KPAX-TV
March 15, 2018
MISSOULA - The University of Montana Police Department is warning students about an assault that occurred in a campus bathroom on Wednesday. Authorities say this was a violent hate or bias crime. The male assailant has not been identified, and no one is in custody. A report was filed by a third partyÃâà...
Long Beach Post
March 15, 2018
Price said that over the past year hate incidents have increased, even if they haven't risen to the level of a hate crime. During an October 2017 public safety committee meeting, of which she is the chair, Long Beach Police Department Deputy Chief Richard Conant said that the department had logged 16Ãâà...
Newsday
March 15, 2018
A New Cassel man has been charged with assault as a hate crime after he attacked and shouted slurs at a Hispanic man in Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County police said. Sean Oree, 52, of Magnolia Avenue, approached the victim, who was sitting on a bench at the Long Island Rail Road station in RonkonkomaÃâà...
New Times SLO
March 15, 2018
The suspect, who police have declined to identify because he is a minor, was arrested March 1 on a felony hate crime charge. According the SLO ... While the district works to respond to the concerns of the community, SLOPD officials are urging citizens to report suspected hate crimes. "We encourageÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 15, 2018
Athens, Greece - The number of hate crimes motivated by race, national origin or skin colour in Greece nearly tripled in 2017 when compared with the previous year, a police spokesperson told Al Jazeera. Hate crimes of this type - among them attacks and hate speech - soared to 133 last year, according toÃâà...
KGNS.tv
March 14, 2018
In a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said investigators are still not ruling out terrorism or the possibility these cases were hate crimes. "We are just not going to ignore the fact that the three victims that were targeted specifically, that we know of, were people of color.
Sputnik International
March 13, 2018
The judgment prompted criticism of the current Swedish law against hate crimes and its enforcement in this instance. "Inciting hate against a group of people?! Yes, according to the district court. I repeat: The law is a rubber article and is used inconsistently (we never see corresponding cases in 'hateÃâà...
Washington Times Herald
March 13, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS—A resolution that would allow Indiana to join 45 other states with hate crimes legislation was approved unanimously in the Senate Rules and Legislative Procedures Committee Monday. Senate Resolution 60, authored by Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, asks for a summer committee toÃâà...
KSBW The Central Coast
March 13, 2018
A Boulder Creek man named Rollin Easley was arrested on suspicion of committing hate crimes against two churches. Someone used white spray paint to cover two churches in giant letters reading, "666, HAIL SATAN. Advertisement. KSBW-TV. Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies said they tracked downÃâà...
Cape Cod Today
March 13, 2018
The Nantucket Police Department is currently investigating what appears to be an act of hate directed at persons of color on the island. Shortly before 7:00 AM today the Department received a call reporting that person(s) unknown had vandalized the African Meeting House building by spray painting racistÃâà...
The Desert Sun
March 13, 2018
George Zander, who died six weeks later, was well-known in the Coachella Valley and the assault was investigated as a hate crime because one of the attackers used a gay slur. During a ceremony in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Palm Springs police will be among four law enforcement agencies receiving theÃâà...
BBC News
March 13, 2018
Paint has been thrown at an Orange Hall in County Tyrone in what police have described as a "hate crime". The incident happened on the Aghintober Road near Aughnacloy sometime between 18:00 GMT on Saturday and 11:00 on Sunday. A tin of paint was thrown at the front of Aughintober Orange HallÃâà...
KLCC FM Public Radio
March 13, 2018
Community Representatives Respond To City Of Eugene's Latest Hate Crime Statistics. By Brian Bull • 40 minutes ago ... He says part of the increase may be due to outreach efforts from his organization, to get people more active in reporting hate crimes. Still…. “We're gonna continue our work, understanding that we've gotÃâà...
QNS.com
March 13, 2018
Police are investigating hateful graffiti that was found at the site of a Queens Village mosque that is under construction. It was reported to police that between 6 p.m. on March 9 and 12:30 p.m. on March 10, an unidentified person approached a construction site, located at 80-35 237th St., and wrote “mosqueÃâà...
