A white man was caught on video ranting about employees speaking Spanish to customers at a midtown Manhattan coffee shop — and threatens to call immigration officers on everyone. The unidentified man is shown in a viral video complaining to an employee at Fresh Kitchen that he overheard workers... Continue »
A Norton man was charged with ethnic intimidation after police say he put a cross covered in threatening messages in a neighbor’s yard. Officers were called to a home on Sandy Lane on April 30 to investigate. Messages like “You need to move,” “Get out” and “Bad things will... Continue »
A former reserve sheriff’s deputy is facing hate crime charges after telling Louisiana authorities that he plowed his pickup truck into a convenience store because he thought its Sikh owners were Muslim. Chad Horsley, 27, was arrested Monday and charged with one count each of hate crimes, simple criminal damage to... Continue »
Loved ones and friends of DaShawn Horne gathered in Federal Way on Saturday to celebrate his progress and thank the community. In January, Horne was attacked and beaten with a baseball bat outside an Auburn home. Prosecutors say Horne was attacked by 18-year-old Julian Tuimauga who was upset that... Continue »
Dane County authorities say a man claiming to be a sheriff’s deputy and immigration officer assaulted a Latino man in Marshall in January, leading to three hate crime charges. A criminal complaint says Jon Holte, 59, was intoxicated when he put a “Dane County Special Deputy” badge on his... Continue »
Two women known for uttering anti-Muslim vitriol at Phoenix-area political events were arrested Thursday after they filmed themselves and their children spouting hate speech while removing flyers and pamphlets from a local mosque. Tempe police spokeswoman Lily Duran said Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer were taken into custody around... Continue »
The impact on Charity Grace Mofsen was immediate and visceral. Spray-painted in black on the side of the African Meeting House was “N—-r Leave” and a crudely-drawn phallic symbol. “I broke down. I was hysterical,” said Mofsen, manager of the historic building on York Street. “I cried.” The Nantucket... Continue »
A Fort Bragg man was arrested this week for vandalizing a church in what is being described as a hate crime, the Fort Bragg Police Department reported. Officers did not find anyone inside the church when they arrived, but determined that the suspect had broken in and set off... Continue »
The search is on for whoever defaced a statue of Jesus in Manorville. Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County Hate Crimes Section detectives are seeking the public’s help to identify and find the person or people who damaged the religious statue at the Shrine of Our Lady of... Continue »
Since the beginning of the month, the woman and her family have been at the center of public discussion and concern in connection with the arrest of an unknown SLO High School student accused of bullying and threatening her son. The suspect, who police have declined to identify because... Continue »