Jul 6, 2017
A Brooklyn man was indicted for assault as a hate crime for allegedly punching a woman in the face while yelling homophobic slurs on a Q train, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said. Antoine Thomas, 27, who was arraigned on Monday, boarded the Brooklyn-bound Q train at Union Square...
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Four people are facing hate crime charges after vandalism complaints in the Village of Arcade. Police responded to a number of calls Saturday morning. They say they found 10 cars, one boat, two bridges and some stop signs that had been tagged with racist slurs and at least one...
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Police in Sacramento are investigating two possible hate crimes against Muslims. An image circulated around the community Saturday showing a Quran filled with bacon that was burned and handcuffed to a fence at the largest mosque in the state’s capital. On Friday night, pages ripped from a Quran were...
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Jun 2, 2017
Fake fliers purporting to be distributed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and warning against any aid to illegal immigrants were found on cars and lampposts across Washington, D.C. Thursday morning, prompting concern by residents and ire from officials. The fliers, which a spokeswoman for the agency called “dangerous and...
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May 31, 2017
Visitors were removed from a section of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, on Wednesday after a noose was found on the floor of one of the rooms, Smithsonian officials said. It’s the second time this week a noose has been discovered on...
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May 30, 2017
Racist flyers were found on utility poles and car windows in a community near the nation’s capital, prompting a police investigation. Local news media outlets report that the flyers with racist messages targeting African-Americans and immigrants were found in Alexandria, Virginia’s Del Ray neighborhood. Alexandria Police say they are...
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May 27, 2017
The man accused of the brutal hate crime slayings of two people at the Hollywood Transit Center on Friday afternoon is a known local white supremacist. Jeremy Christian, 35, was booked early Saturday morning on two aggravated murder charges, an attempted murder charge, two intimidation (hate crime) charges, and...
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May 25, 2017
In Reno, Nevada, Héctor Torres, a 44-year old Brooklyn-native and Puerto Rican, was speaking on the phone with his mother, when a man approached and accosted him for nearly ten minutes, for speaking Spanish: “learn how to speak f*** English, you live in America… I feel like a real...
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In Arkansas, Eva Hicks was confronted by a woman in Walmart, who informed her that the United States was not her country, and that ‘we’ don’t want her here. The woman instructed Eva to speak English and return to Mexico. When an African-American woman stepped in to defend her,...
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A South Side alderman is slamming a flyer found in neighborhoods around the city asking black Chicagoans to report suspected undocumented residents to immigration agents. The flyer says that “Sanctuary city Policies endanger the lively hood of every american , while violating federal law and destroying the black community.” The...
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