The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti overnight on the first night of Passover, and police are still looking for a suspect or suspects.\r\nAmong the hateful messages, \"Hitler was right\" was spray-painted across an entrance of the JCCNV, which is located on Little River Turnpike in Fairfax. A swastika and an \"SS\" symbol were spray-painted onto exterior walls.\r\nThe nearby Little River United Church of Christ was also vandalized, with swastikas and anti-Muslim signs.\r\nFairfax County Police are investigating.\r\nThe acts of vandalism were discovered Tuesday morning.\r\n\"...We are disheartened and deeply disturbed by the anti-Semitism our campus has experienced today,\" said JCCNV Executive Director Jeff Dannick in a statement Tuesday. \"We will not be deterred from our mission of being an open and welcoming place for people of all backgrounds as we continue our operations as normal.\"<\/p>\r\n ","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/JCCNV-Jewish-Community-Center-of-Northern-Virginia-Vandalized-With-Anti-Semitic-Graffiti-on-First-Night-of-Passover-419170474.html","longitude":"-77.250490","latitude":"38.839626"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Arsonist\u2019s threat to \u2018torture\u2019 immigrants a hate crime, say Charlotte police","description":"An attempt to burn an east Charlotte store that included a note warning of plans to \u201ctorture\u201d immigrants is being investigated as a hate crime by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police.\r\nPolice say officers were called at 9:59 p.m. Thursday to a fire at the Central Market<\/a>, a Nepali Indian store at 5718 Albemarle Road in Charlotte. On arrival, officers were advised by the Charlotte Fire Department that the fire was contained to the front door and burned itself out by their arrival.\r\nInvestigators say one of the windows in the door had been broken out with a rock and a note was left near the door. The note stated \u201cthe suspect did not want any refugee business owners and that they would torture the owner if they did not leave and go back to where they came from,\u201d according to police.\r\nIt was signed \u201cWhite America.\"","more_info":"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article143296274.html","longitude":"-80.843127","latitude":"35.227087"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Muslim woman in hijab was threatened with gun as she breastfed baby","description":"A hijab-wearing Muslim woman was breastfeeding her one-month-old child in a Charlotte shopping center parking lot this week when she noticed a man staring at her for several minutes. The man, she said, then reached into the back of his truck, pulled out a long gun and aimed it directly at her.\r\nThe victim, a native of Pakistan who had lived in Charlotte for 11 years, fled to a nearby store to call police before the man drove away, she told The Charlotte Observer<\/em> Wednesday<\/a>.\r\n\u201cNow I should get out of here,\u201d\u00a0she recalled thinking at the time. \u201cI\u2019m not going to sit here and let him shoot me. \u00a0I took my baby in my arms and rushed toward the store.\u201d\r\nThe man was identified by the victim as being white and in his 40s or 50s. It was not clear whether he had followed the woman, who was wearing an abaya, a Muslim dress, as well as a hijab, into the parking lot. He did not utter a word as he stared and then got out of his pickup truck to retrieve his gun, the woman said.","more_info":"","longitude":"-78.611500","latitude":"37.046741"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Racial hate motivated white Maryland man\u2019s fatal stabbing of black New Yorker: NYPD","description":"The 28-year-old man busted for fatally stabbing a black man in Midtown Tuesday has told cops he came here from Baltimore to kill African-Americans, sources said.\r\nThe white supremacist and military veteran from Maryland surrendered to cops just after midnight Wednesday, sources said.\r\n\u201cYou need to arrest me. I have the knife in my coat,\u201d the suspect told police officers after marching into the Times Square substation, sources said.\r\nHe later told police that he was motivated by rage against black men who get romantically involved with white women, sources said.\r\nOfficers searched the man, whose name has not been released, and found two knives on him, according to the police sources.\r\nThe assailant stabbed Timothy Caughman, 66, multiple times in the chest and back following an argument on the southeast corner of W. 36th St. and Ninth Ave. around 11:25 p.m. Monday, cops said.\r\nAfter the attack, Caughman staggered nearly two blocks to the Midtown South Precinct stationhouse on W. 35th St., bleeding from his wounds.\r\nMedics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, but he could not be saved, officials said.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/suspect-midtown-knife-killing-surrenders-cops-article-1.3005263","longitude":"-74.005941","latitude":"40.712784"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"A California waiter refused to serve 4 Latina women until he saw \u2018proof of residency\u2019","description":"As the waiter walked up to the table, Carrillo figured she\u2019d splurge on the grilled-cheese sandwich and pay the $2 up-charge to add some of the restaurant\u2019s signature bacon. To start, maybe she\u2019d share a watermelon and cheese plate with her sister and friends.\r\nBut the mood\u00a0soured quickly after the waiter appeared. Before he could serve the four Latina women, he said, they needed to show proof of residency. \u201cI need to make sure you\u2019re from here,\u201d he said.\r\nFlummoxed, the four women handed over their IDs. But as what was happening sank in, they fumed. \u201cI looked at my sister and [my friend], and I said, did he really just say that?\u201d\r\nA few moments later, they\u00a0walked over to the manager and told him what had happened. He offered them a separate section and his business card to make things right \u2014\u00a0but they had already decided to leave.\r\nStill livid a few hours later, Carrillo, a 24-year-old business analyst from Orange County, Calif., posted about the incident on Facebook<\/a>:\r\n

\"For a few seconds I thought maybe he was being a smart a\u2013 or joking but the fact that he said \u2018I\u00a0need to make sure you\u2019re from here before I serve you\u2019 was completely unacceptable.\r\nHow many others has he said this too? I hope this employee is reprimanded for his actions. No establishment should tolerate discriminatory actions from their employees. PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!\"<\/blockquote>\r\nPeople did.\u00a0In a week, Carrillo\u2019s\u00a0post had been shared more than 600 times, and more than 100 people had posted comments.\r\nSeeing the social media backlash, the restaurant\u2019s management contacted\u00a0Carrillo\u00a0that Monday. They offered a VIP experience at the restaurant and pledged to donate 10 percent of the weekend\u2019s proceeds to a nonprofit organization of the group\u2019s choice.\u00a0The four women declined the lavish meal, but asked that the restaurant donate the money to Orange County Immigrant Youth United<\/a>.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/03\/19\/a-california-waiter-refused-to-serve-4-latina-women-until-he-saw-proof-of-residency\/?utm_term=.79638ca954e8","longitude":"-117.999227","latitude":"33.660297"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"\u2018America Is a White Nation\u2019: More Racist Fliers Spotted At University of Maryland","description":"White supremacist fliers were found Monday at the University of Maryland campus in College Park for the third time in three months, following similar incidents recently at universities across the country.\r\nTwo fliers were discovered outside the university\u2019s chemistry department.\r\n\u201cIt is your civic duty to report any and all illegal aliens,\u201d one flier said. \u201cThey are criminals. America is a white nation.\u201d\r\nThe other read: \u201cCarry the torch of your people.\u201d Fliers also were found at three other locations, according to the Diamondback student newspaper<\/a>.\r\nThe fliers include a link to the website of Vanguard America, a group associated with the white supremacy movement. Leaders of the\u00a0group weren\u2019t immediately available for comment. The group was also linked to\u00a0flier-posting\u00a0<\/a>incidents<\/a>\u00a0at the university in December.\r\nIn a \u201cmanifesto\u201d on\u00a0its website, the group writes: \u201cOur America is to be a nation exclusively for the White American peoples who out of the barren hills, empty plains, and vast mountains forged the most powerful nation to ever have existed; it is logical that America must be once again built from the ground up to recapture the glory an Aryan nation deserves.\u201d","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2017\/03\/14\/america-is-a-white-nation-more-racist-fliers-spotted-at-university-of-maryland\/?utm_term=.6fbe3c86c636","longitude":"-76.937760","latitude":"38.989697"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"White-Supremacist Signs Posted at George Washington University","description":"Signs promoting America as \u201ca white nation\u201d were posted on the campus of George Washington University, shocking and upsetting some students.\r\nThe signs mirrored those found on many other campuses in recent weeks. Groups that the\u00a0Anti-Defamation League, which seeks to document and prevent bigotry, identifies as white supremacist have been pushing to spread their message on campuses and recruit college students, according to a recent analysis by the ADL. The report said the groups have been emboldened by current politics, and called it an unprecedented outreach to American college students. The ADL says more than 100 such incidents have happened this academic year, with more than half of them since January.\r\nAt George Washington, signs depicted white people with slogans about uniting.\u00a0A notice \u201cto all white Americans\u201d urges them to report undocumented people\u00a0to federal authorities. \u201cTHEY ARE CRIMINALS. AMERICA IS A WHITE NATION,\u201d the sign reads.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2017\/03\/13\/white-supremacist-signs-posted-at-george-washington-university\/?utm_term=.53b081cdb1f5","longitude":"-77.048706","latitude":"38.899748"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Florida Man Accused of Setting Store Fire Thought Owners were Muslims","description":"A 64-year-old Fort Pierce man who wanted to \u201crun the Arabs out of of our country\u201d remains jailed Saturday on $30,000 bond,\u00a0according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.\r\nRichard Leslie Lloyd \u00a0was arrested Friday after he tried to set fire to a Port St. Lucie convenience store, the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> said.\u00a0Lloyd reportedly told investigators he assumed the owner of a convenience store at Prima Vista and Airoso boulevards was Muslim and it made him mad \u201cdue to what they are doing in the Middle East.\u201d\r\nHe was taken into custody after investigators responded shortly after 7:30 a.m. to reports of a suspicious person at the Met Mart convenience store. Deputies arrived to find that a dumpster had been rolled in front of the doors on the convenience store and set on fire.\r\nUpon seeing deputies, Lloyd put his hands behind his back and said \u201ctake me away,\u201d Sheriff Ken Mascara said. The St. Lucie County Fire District extinguished the fire. The store was not open and its security shutters were closed and intact.\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that Mr. Lloyd made the assumption that the store owners were Muslim when, in fact, they are of Indian descent,\u201d Mascara said. \u201cRegardless, we will not tolerate violence based on age, race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, mental or physical disability.\u201d","more_info":"http:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/crime--law\/florida-man-accused-setting-store-fire-thought-owners-were-muslims\/AiaV4I91dCzaw0UlsOCGYL\/","longitude":"-80.358226","latitude":"27.273049"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Hate Crime Suspect: \u2018Arab, You Need to Leave\u2019","description":"A man was arrested after an altercation at Al-Aqsa Restaurant on State Street in Salem.\r\nJason Kendall, 52, is accused of attacking a\u00a0restaurant employee with a pipe and telling him to \u201cgo back to your country, terrorist,\u201d court documents state.\r\nAccording to the officer\u2019s report, the victim said Kendall was yelling and screaming, causing a disturbance in the restaurant. The victim reportedly asked Kendall to leave, and he did. But he came back 5 minutes later yelling, \u201cget out of America,\u201d and \u201d Arab, you need to leave, a**hole.\u201d\r\nThe victim said Kendall threw something plastic at him, hitting him in the head, according to court documents. Kendall then came at him with a pipe and allegedly used it to him over the head. The victim said it left a small bump on his head.\r\nAfter he was arrested, Kendall told the officer he saw a \u201cSaddam Hussein looking guy\u201d and he believed a woman in the restaurant was a slave. He said he went inside to tell her she was \u201cfree to leave.\u201d\r\nKendall\u00a0said he also saw\u00a0an \u201cevil totem\u201d with Arabic writing on it. He told police\u00a0he threw the \u201ctotem\u201d at the victim. He said the man in the restaurant had something in his hand under a napkin, which he thought was an ice pick. Kendall said he defended himself by hitting the man in the head with a metal pipe.\r\nKendall was charged with felony assault and unlawful use of a weapon and misdemeanor intimidation. According to the arresting officer\u2019s\u00a0statement, the incident is\u00a0being considered a hate crime.","more_info":"http:\/\/koin.com\/2017\/03\/09\/hate-crime-suspect-arab-you-need-to-leave\/","longitude":"-123.025504","latitude":"44.936675"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Jewish Cemeteries Vandalized in New York, St. Louis, and Philadelphia","description":"A New York hate crime task force is investigating the toppling of at least a dozen headstones at a Jewish cemetery after similar incidents occurred in St. Louis and Philadelphia.\r\nNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would be launching a statewide investigation of the vandalism at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, New York, and the overall rise in crimes targeting Jewish organizations throughout the state.\r\nThis latest incident comes as Jewish community centers (JCCs) and cemeteries have been the target of bomb threats and vandals in recent weeks across the country, stoking fears that anti-Semitism is on the rise.\r\n","more_info":"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/03\/us\/jewish-cemetery-vandalized-headstones-new-york\/","longitude":"-77.610922","latitude":"43.161030"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Charged With Making Bomb Threats Against Jewish Community Centers","description":"A former reporter for a news website was charged on Friday with making more than a half-dozen bomb threats against Jewish community centers, schools and a Jewish history museum, federal authorities said.\r\nThe man, Juan Thompson, 31, of St. Louis, made some of the threats using his own name and others implicating a former girlfriend as part of an effort to intimidate her, the authorities said in a federal complaint unsealed on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.\r\nIn one threat, made on Feb. 1 against a Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Mich., the complaint says, Mr. Thompson claimed he had placed two bombs in the school and was \u201ceager for Jewish newtown,\u201d an apparent reference to the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Conn., in which a gunman killed 20 students and six school employees.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.riverfronttimes.com\/newsblog\/2017\/03\/08\/juan-thompson-committed-hateful-crime-to-destroy-young-woman-prosecutor-says","longitude":"-90.199404","latitude":"38.627003"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Smashes Synagogue Windows, Put Swastika Stickers on Doors","description":"Wright, 31, was charged with a hate crime for allegedly smashing the window of a downtown synagogue and putting swastika stickers on its doors in early February. Three months earlier, he alarmed members when he visited a Pilsen church, one that was a target of racist vandalism six times in 2016, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.\r\nAnti-Semitic incidents have been increasingly visible in recent months. Three Jewish cemeteries across the country were vandalized within one week in February, and several dozen Jewish community centers, including one in Hyde Park, have received bomb threats since the beginning of the year.","more_info":"","longitude":"-87.629798","latitude":"41.878114"},{"image":"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/erwer.jpg","video":"","name":"Suspect Yells Anti-Hispanic Statement Before Attacking Man on J Train","description":"Police are on the hunt for a suspect who they said yelled an anti-Hispanic statement before attacking a man on a J train in Brooklyn last week.\r\nThe train was pulling into the Crescent Street station around 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1 when police said the suspect walked up to the 27-year-old victim and yelled \u201cF---ng Mexican, go back to your country,\u201d before punching him in the nose.\r\nThe suspect, described as a man in his 20s, ran off the train when it stopped, police said.\r\nThe victim suffered a broken nose and was taken to Interfaith Medical Center for treatment, according to cops.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/j-train-attack-in-brooklyn-probed-as-possible-hate-crime-cops-say-1.13223183","longitude":"-73.944158","latitude":"40.678178"},{"image":"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/sub-buzz-6109-1488662305-4.png","video":"","name":"An Anti-Immigration Website Posted A Video Of Indian Families Hanging Out In A Park","description":"In the aftermath of the deadly Kansas shooting of Indian-born engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an immigration reform advocacy website that features photos<\/a> and a video<\/a> of Indian families relaxing in suburban Columbus, Ohio, has Indian immigrant communities across the country worried, with some unwilling to travel outside the towns where they live.\r\nThe site, SaveAmericanITJobs.org, argues that immigrants in the US on work visas are a threat to US tech jobs. Created and maintained by a 66-year-old computer programmer from Virginia named Steve Pushor, it has been circulating on WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, and email all week.\r\nBhavin Bavalia, an American-born IT professional and the son of Indian immigrants, said he first came across the site when a friend shared it on Facebook \u201cIt\u2019s very scary for me knowing that I have a lot of family in these small Indian communities,\u201d he said. \u201cTo think that there could be some weirdo filming my cousin\u2019s kids as they\u2019re playing at the park, and possibly fomenting resentment towards them, is just disturbing.\u201d","more_info":"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/carolineodonovan\/anti-immigration-website-stokes-fear-among-indian-tech-worke?bffbindia&utm_term=.cv434e4Ej#.qvjPDVD25","longitude":"-82.998794","latitude":"39.961176"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Kills One, Injures Two Whom He Suspected Were Iranians","description":"Less than five hours\u00a0after a man shot up a Kansas bar, killing one Indian man and wounding two other people in an apparently racially motivated attack,<\/a> an Applebee\u2019s bartender\u00a070 miles away made a 911 call.\r\nThe woman on the phone told the dispatcher that a man had come into her bar and told her he \u201chad done something really bad and he was on the run from the police.\u201d\r\nThe man wouldn\u2019t tell her what he did but kept asking her to allow him to stay at her house. The bartender persisted, persuading him to tell her what happened. \u201cHe said he shot and killed two Iranian people in Olathe,\u201d the bartender said.\r\nShe read the news and sure enough, noticed\u00a0that a few hours earlier, a\u00a0shooting had taken place in\u00a0Olathe, a city about 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. Her 911 call, later released\u00a0by a local\u00a0television station<\/a>, led authorities to locate Adam Purinton, 51, of Olathe, late Wednesday and take him into custody. The phone call recording supports witness statements that the bar shooter thought the two men, Srinivas\u00a0Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, were of Middle Eastern descent.\r\nThey were actually\u00a0Indian nationals employed by the technology firm Garmin. They had received master\u2019s degrees\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0Kuchibhotla died from his injuries Wednesday, and Madasani was released from the hospital the following day. An American who was wounded when he tried to intervene, Ian Grillot<\/a>, remains hospitalized but continues to improve, doctors said.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/02\/28\/suspect-in-kansas-bar-shooting-of-indians-apparently-thought-they-were-iranians\/?utm_term=.299e1379e7d4","longitude":"-94.819128","latitude":"38.881396"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Sikh-American Shot By Masked Man Who Told Him To Go Back to His Own Country","description":"Deep Rai, 39, told police he was approached outside his Kent home late Friday by a masked man who, after a brief argument, told Rai\u00a0to \"go back to your own country\" and shot him in the arm.\r\nA manhunt was underway for the shooter. The national\u00a0Sikh Coalition asked authorities to investigate the case as a hate crime, and\u00a0Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said he has reached out to the FBI. Rai was hospitalized but is out of danger.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2017\/03\/05\/sikh-man-shot-seattle-draws-international-condolences\/98775418\/","longitude":"-122.234843","latitude":"47.380933"},{"image":"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sandra-from-FB_20170110193153811_7015570_ver1.0_640_360.jpg","video":"","name":"Washington Woman charged With hate-crime After Trailing Latina Driver And Threatening To Ram Her Car","description":"A King County woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly posting a video on Facebook that prosecutors say shows her tailing a Hispanic woman in her car, railing against the other driver for having \"Spanish privilege\" and threatening to ram her vehicle.\r \r Sandra Jametski, 48, of White Center, was has been held on $500,000 bail since early December, charged with malicious harassment, the state's hate crime statute. Jametski is also known as Sandra Diann Huddleson.\r \r King County prosecutors said Jametski followed a neighbor as the neighbor drove to her child's school and that she recorded her racist rant on her phone.\r \r \u201cThis person wrecked my car, lied to a frickin\u2019 cop,\u201d Jametski appears to say on the Facebook video. \u201cYou get a super good look everybody, this is what calls to be Spanish privileged in America.\u201d\r \r The video, which is being used as evidence in case, appears to record Jametski as her voice grows angrier and the dialogue becomes laced with obscenities as she claims that the driver caused an earlier crash.\r \r \u201cThis is America. We don\u2019t drive like that here. We don\u2019t drive like you\u2019re in Mexico, lady,\u201d the woman said in the video before making remarks about citizenship and deportation.\r \r Prosecutors said Jametski filmed the 10-minute video as she followed the woman on her usual 2\u00bd-mile drive to her son\u2019s school. Once at the school parking lot, videos show Jametski getting out of her vehicle and angrily confronting the woman while still recording.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.kiro7.com\/news\/local\/white-center-woman-charged-with-hate-crime-after-spanish-privilege-rant-on-facebook-live\/483146301","longitude":"-122.3558111","latitude":"47.5141268"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Racist Receipt Targets Mexican Restaurant Owner","description":"Staffers at a San Antonio, Texas restaurant are concerned and disappointed after they found a receipt from a customer saying they would not be coming back because the owner is Mexican.\r \r \"The food was tasty and the service was attentive,\" the note reads. \"However the owner is Mexican. We will not return. America first.\"\r \r \"Something like this is a slap in the face,\" says Di Frabo Italian restaurant owner Fernando Franco.\r \r He opened the Italian restaurant back in 2014, turning a lifelong dream into a reality.\r \r Franco has been operating businesses and restaurants in San Antonio since 2012 under an E-2 visa.","more_info":"http:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/restaurant-owner-says-customer-leaves-racist-message-on-receipt","longitude":"-98.6244597","latitude":"29.6481308"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Mexican Consulate In Las Vegas, Nevada Vandalized With Swastika","description":"A swastika was painted on the side of the Mexican Consulate in downtown Las Vegas.\r \r A nearby property owner said it likely happened over the weekend. An employee at the Consulate said they're contacting police.\r \r \"I'm worried about it because we are in danger,\" said Roberto Mondragon, an immigrant from Mexico.\r \r The swastika is painted on the side of the consulate, not facing the street. There is a sidewalk path right next to the symbol.\r \r \"My stomach got a little sick when I saw that this morning. In fact, my intention was to go to the Mexican Consulate so that's it's taken care of. I don't want to see it on anyone's property, certainly not mine,\" said Lane Kay, the property owner next to swastika.\r \r People in the area say graffiti often shows up on buildings, but it's rarely this extreme.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.ktnv.com\/news\/swastika-appears-on-mexican-consulate","longitude":"-115.1450591","latitude":"36.1596391"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"High School Students Taunt Black and Latino Basketball Players With \\\"Build The Wall\\\"","description":"Dover Superintendent Robert Becker said his district's boys basketball players were subjected to racist slurs like \"ashy knees\" and \"Build the wall\" by some Jefferson High School fans Friday. \r \r In an extraordinary and sweeping statement citing Michelle Obama as well as Dover's long history of ethnic diversity, Becker said, \"I personally feel a sense of anger and frustration that our students were subjected to speech which was discriminatory and hateful in nature. This cannot be tolerated and will not stand.\"\r \r Jefferson fans chanted \"ashy knees\" at an African-American player for Dover when he shot foul shots, according to Becker, and fans also chanted \"build the wall\" while Dover, which has a number of Hispanic players, warmed up before the game.\r \r Becker said he has been working with his administration as well as officials in Jefferson to get the specifics of the \u201cbehaviors exhibited by a small but vocal part of the Jefferson student body during the basketball game.\u201d He added that Athletic Director Sean Bullock is filing a formal complaint at the county level as well as at the state level with the NJSIAA. Principal Robert Franks is meeting with parents and students to confirm what took place at the game. Dover is still examining what transpired, but Becker did point out shortcomings in Jefferson's response.","more_info":"http:\/\/highschoolsports.nj.com\/news\/article\/3013220963860827023\/build-the-wall-dover-superintendent-ids-jefferson-hoops-fans-alleged-racial-slurs\/","longitude":"-74.5485327","latitude":"41.0193057"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Kicks, Shouts at Muslim Employee, \\'Trump Is Here Now, He Will Get Rid of All of You\\'","description":"A Massachusetts man is facing hate crime charges after he allegedly shouted slurs at and kicked a Muslim airline employee in the Delta Sky Lounge at Kennedy Airport Wednesday night, prosecutors say.\r\n\r\nThe suspect, 57-year-old Robin A. Rhodes of Worcester, landed at JFK Airport from Aruba Wednesday evening, where he was to take a connecting flight back to Massachusetts, according to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown.\r\n\r\nAs he waited inside the Delta Sky Lounge at Terminal 2, he approached a Delta employee in her office, according to the DA. She was wearing a hijab.\r\n\r\n\"Are you [expletive] sleeping? Are you praying? What are you doing?\" Rhodes allegedly said to the employee before punching the door, which hit the back of the employee's chair.\r\n\r\nWhen the employee asked what she'd done to Rhodes to make him angry, he allegedly responded: \"You did nothing, but I am going to kick your [expletive].\"\r\n\r\nHe then kicked her in the right leg, prosecutors said, and when she tried to get away from him by retreating to a corner of the office, he kicked the door, stepped into the office and blocked her from leaving.\r\n\r\nWhen someone else came over to the office to try to calm Rhodes down, he moved away from the door, and the employee ran out of the office to the lounge's front desk.\r\n\r\nBut Rhodes still followed her, then got down on his knees and began to bow down, mimicking a Muslim prayer, prosecutors said, and allegedly shouted, \"[Expletive] Islam, [expletive] ISIS, Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you. You can ask Germany, Belgium and France about these kinds of people. You will see what happens.\"\r\n\r\nAs he was being arrested, Rhodes allegedly told police, \"I guess I am going to jail for disorderly conduct. I couldn't tell if it was a man or woman because their back was to me and they had something covering their head.\"\r\n\r\nPort Authority police and NYPD conducted the investigation.\r\n\r\nRhodes was waiting arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on hate crime, assault, harassment, unlawful imprisonment and menacing charges. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the charges.\r\n\r\nIf convicted, Rhodes faces up to four years in prison.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Muslim-Employee-Hijab-Delta-Sky-Lounge-Kicked-Harassed-Flyer-Shouts-Trump-is-Here-Now-411924555.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand","longitude":"-73.7781391","latitude":"40.6413111"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Anonymous Flier Falsely Accuses Muslim-American Woman Of Being A Terrorist","description":"Mason police are investigating distribution of a flier that describes a Muslim resident as having links to terrorism.\r \r The flier, titled \"Neighborhood Terrorism Warning,\" displays the photo and address of Rawd Saleh, a mother of three. It cites a court case from nearly 15 years ago in which her father was falsely accused of supporting terrorism by sending money to the Mideast.\r \r Omran Saleh was eventually convicted of defrauding the state of tax dollars and sentenced to one year in jail. \"The money was not sent to terrorist organizations,\" Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Crush said then. \"There is no jihad here.\"\r \r Reached Thursday, Rawd Saleh said her neighbors have rallied around her since the flier came out. She's worn a hijab for 15 years and said she has never been targeted or harassed.\r \r \"It\u2019s very disheartening,\" Saleh said. \"You never think anything like this is going to happen in a place as diverse as Mason, Ohio.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/local\/mason\/2017\/01\/26\/neighbors-flyer-falsely-accuses-mason-woman-being-terrorist\/97082884\/","longitude":"-84.2868052","latitude":"39.3551034"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Trump Supporters Bombard Nurse, Children With Threats","description":"A home health care nurse in Maine said this week that supporters of President-elect Donald Trump have attacked her and her family with more than 100 calls because conservative websites published the wrong number.\r \r Debbie Oram explained to the Bangor Daily News that the callers are upset at the owner of Turner LP Gas, who said he would not deliver gas to anyone who voted for the president-elect because he believes Trump is the antichrist.\r \r Although Oram has no connection to the gas company, she has received more than 100 calls since Friday. It turns out that her number is one digit off from the number of the gas company. While some of the callers have been polite, the nurse said others have been downright scary.\r \r \u201cI\u2019d appreciate anything you can do to put it out there so these calls will stop,\u201d Oram told the paper. \u201cI would hate to change my number but that\u2019s what I\u2019ll have to do if this doesn\u2019t stop. We\u2019ve had our number for years.\u201d\r \r According to Oram, some of the calls threatened her 21-year-old daughter and her 11-year-old son. Her son was so frightened that he began sleeping in his mother\u2019s bedroom.\r \r \u201cThey\u2019re saying rude and disgusting things,\u201d she remarked. \u201cI had to go to my doctor today for more anxiety medication because of it.\u201d","more_info":"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/12\/trump-fans-bombard-nurses-children-with-threats-after-pro-trump-websites-publish-wrong-number\/","longitude":"-69.7193803","latitude":"44.7650366"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Swastikas, \\\"Make America White Again\\\" Graffiti Investigated As Hate Crimes","description":"Police are investigating multiple red spray-painted swastikas on Long Island as hate crimes after residents reported seeing the offensive messages throughout their neighborhoods.\r \r The slew of reported racist graffiti was found between Nov. 30 and Dec.16 in several Long Island towns that include Mineola and Merrick, according to the Nassau County Police Department.\r \r A sidewalk in front of a Washington Ave. home was vandalized with multiple red swastikas and \u201cMake America White Again\u201d written in black on Nov.30 at 6:30 a.m. The incident could have happened the night before, police said.\r \r A Nassau County police spokesman told the Daily News that other \u201cbias incidents\u201d occurred on Dec. 16 at Nassau Community College, where police found more swastikas drawn in bathrooms.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/red-spray-painted-swastikas-investigated-hate-crimes-article-1.2915531","longitude":"-73.6318487","latitude":"40.7367959"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"School District Apologizes After White Students Flash Trump Sign, Turn Backs On Black Players","description":"A group of cowboy hat-clad high school students turned their backs and displayed a Donald Trump sign as the starting roster for a predominantly black basketball team was announced before a game in Missouri.\r \r The pregame prank at Warrensburg High School occurred as the home team prepared for tipoff against the visiting Center High School Yellowjackets on Monday evening.\r \r A Facebook video, viewed over 630,000 times by Thursday morning, shows a group of at least two dozen students with their backs turned to the court. Some of the students are wearing camo overalls and cowboy hats, and a Trump\/Pence campaign sign can be seen held up among them.\r \r \r \u201cLet it be known how RACIST Warrensburg High School students are,\u201d a caption read to the video, recorded by an attendee. \u201cI\u2019m appalled by the nonsense I\u2019ve just witnessed with my own two eyes\u2026If this was the Yellowjackets house, nothing but RESPECT would\u2019ve been giving to these cowards.\u201d\r \r Warrensburg superintendent Scott Patrick condemned the Trump-tinged theatrics.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/white-students-turn-backs-black-basketball-team-article-1.2911196","longitude":"-93.7107437","latitude":"38.7405695"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Iowa Elementary School Vandalized With \\\"Trump\\\", \\\"KKK\\\"","description":"Muscatine police are investigating after racial slurs were spray-painted on McKinley Elementary School over the holiday weekend. The school was marred by derogatory words pertaining to the gay community and black people. The spray paint covered walls, windows and even playground equipment. Educators at McKinley say they were at a loss for words when they first heard about what happen to their school.\r\n\r\nFor school administrator Lori Shield, the derogatory words written on the side of the school were heartbreaking.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhat goes through my head is, how can anyone be that hateful.\u201d said Shield, who\u2019s been with the school for 11 years. \u201cEspecially at a school, where we\u2019re teaching innocence and pride and respect.\u201d\r\n\r\nShield says even though the words are gone now, the reality that the kids were exposed to hatred is what hurts the most.\r\n\r\n\u201cVery emotional, when I came around the building and saw the wording it hurt me a great deal, this building and the people in it are my family,\u201d said Shields.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/kwqc.com\/2016\/11\/29\/muscatine-school-vandalized-by-racial-slurs\/amp\/?client=safari","longitude":"-91.0713707","latitude":"41.4288737"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Trump Supporter Attempts To Pull Hijab Off Muslim Student\\'s Head","description":"\"I was sitting down in the library in my school and a very big man wearing a Trump shirt walks up behind me. I start to turn around but before I can see who's there, a hand is on my head... attempting to push my hijab back.\"\r\n\r\nThe Muslim student at the University of New Mexico, who spoke to BBC Trending, says she ducked out of the way of her attacker.\r\n\r\n\"I told him that he has every right to believe what he wants and he can say whatever he wants but as soon as he puts his hands on me, then things get serious,\" she says. \"He then walked away saying 'I'm going to sit down before you throw a grenade at me.'\"","more_info":"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-37945386","longitude":"","latitude":""},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Muslim Woman Pushed Down Stairs, Called \\\"Terrorist\\\"","description":"A New York City transit worker who is Muslim was pushed down the stairs at Grand Central Terminal by a man who called her a terrorist, authorities said.\r \r The assault took place on Monday morning as the victim, 45, was heading to work on the subway, CBS New York reported. The suspect followed her off the train and shoved her down the stairs, police said.\r \r Sources told CBS New York the suspect allegedly called the victim a \u201cterrorist\u201d and said she shouldn\u2019t be working in the city. She was wearing a Muslim head covering at the time of the assault, and was treated at a Manhattan hospital for ankle and knee injuries. \r \r Authorities say a good Samaritan intervened, and police are looking for the man who committed the crime.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/muslim-woman-new-york-city-pushed-down-stairs-subway-called-terrorist\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=31992332","longitude":"-73.9773022","latitude":"40.7524961"},{"image":"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15219984_1039848459476997_3094134147049957464_n.jpg","video":"","name":"UNLV Instructor Threatens To Turn In Undocumented Students","description":"A Nevada university instructor is furiously back-pedaling after warning that his classroom is not a \u201csafe space\u201d and vowing to turn students in to immigration authorities if he suspects they are in the country illegally.\r\n\r\nThe controversial comments are one more example of a mounting anti-immigrant rhetoric ignited by the presidential election, but it\u2019s among the most significant to date on an American college campus from a faculty member.\r\n\r\nThe University of Nevada, Las Vegas launched an investigation after a student revealed a Facebook conversation with math teacher George Buch in which Buch said he would contact officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement about any undocumented immigrant students.\r\n\r\n\u201cNo safe spaces in my classes\u201d for such students, read Buch\u2019s post to one of his students, whose parents are Cuban. \u201cI would have to turn you into ICE,\u201d he posted. \u201cI don\u2019t mind diversity ... I mind criminals.\u201d\r\n\r\nBut after an uproar on campus over the posts, Buch insisted to the student newspaper that he was just kidding.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019m extremely sorry for the comments. I know how hurtful they are to many of you,\u201d Buch said in a statement to UNLV\u2019s Rebel Yell. \u201cIt was intended to be a joke, although clearly a poor one. I have never, nor will I ever, create a classroom of hate or intolerance. These students and their success mean everything to me, and I\u2019m sorry that I put them in jeopardy.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe comments were widely denounced by students and faculty members, and some 80 members of the community held a news conference Thursday to address the issue, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe particularly take offense when an instructor who\u2019s supposed to create a positive learning environment actually does the opposite by intimidating and scaring our students,\u201d Francisco Morales, state director for the Center for Community Change Action, said at the news conference.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/nevada-professor-immigrants_us_584237bde4b09e21702ed2f8?","longitude":"-115.1388739","latitude":"36.1053148"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Vandals Break Into Interracial Couple\u2019s home, Spray-Paint \u201cWhite Power,\u201d \\\"Die N\u2014\u2013\u201d, Swastikas","description":"Vandals had poured cement into the stove and down the tub\u2019s drain. Walls and staircase railings were kicked in. A ceiling had collapsed.\r \r Most troubling: \u201cWhite power,\u201d die n\u2014\u2013\u201d and swastikas were spray-painted on walls.\r \r \u201cThey wrecked every room,\u201d the couple wrote. \u201cNothing was spared.\u201d\r \r Joe is black and Pat is white. The couple married 34 years ago \u201cat a time when you know it wasn\u2019t real acceptable,\u201d Pat told the Cincinnati Enquirer.\r \r The burdens continued as they raised two biracial children in the South and then in Cincinnati. Their son committed suicide in 2010, they wrote on the GoFundMe page.\r \r \u201cHe was treated very racist because he was a biracial young man,\u201d the GoFundMe page says. \u201cHe was called the n-word, and other unacceptable terms by his fellow students and residents of the town. One of his teachers even called him stupid in front of the entire class. Unfortunately, with all of this negativity, we lost a wonderful young man.\u201d","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/12\/05\/raw-hatred-vandals-break-into-interracial-couples-home-spray-paint-slurs-and-swastikas\/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.2d4b29e3faba","longitude":"-84.350189","latitude":"39.288333"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Shouts \\'I Will Cut Your Throat\\' At Off-Duty Muslim Police Officer And Son","description":"A Muslim off-duty NYPD officer, hailed by the mayor as a hero, and her 16-year-old son became the city\u2019s latest hate crime victims Saturday when a bigot in Brooklyn yelled at them to \u201cgo back to your country,\u201d police sources said.\r \r Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and wearing her hijab, dropped off her 16-year-old on Ridge Blvd. and 67th St. in Bay Ridge just before 6 p.m., the sources said.\r \r After parking her car, she returned to the scene to find her son being shoved by the suspect, a white man in his 30s.\r \r When the officer \u2014 a native New Yorker \u2014 approached, the man said, \u201cISIS (expletive), I will cut your throat, go back to your country!\u201d\r \r Elsokary did not identify herself as a police officer, and was unarmed.\r \r The suspect then fled the scene. Cops were trying to track him down Saturday night. The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is probing the episode as a bias incident.\r \r Officer Elsokary \u2014 who proudly wears her hijab on duty in the 90th Precinct \u2014 was touted as a hero after she ran into a burning building to save an elderly man and baby girl in April 2014.\r \r Responding to a call about a fire over the police radio, Elsokary and her partner rushed to a smoke-filled building on Scholes St.\r \r After hearing a baby crying on the second floor, Elsokary \u2014 a mother-of-five \u2014 rushed up the stairs, used her jacket to pry open a scorching-hot doorknob and grabbed the frightened child.\r \r She also scooped up the baby\u2019s spooked grandmother and rushed them to safety.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/nyc-crime\/hero-muslim-son-harassed-bigot-brooklyn-article-1.2897687","longitude":"-74.0318327","latitude":"40.6288251"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Charged With Assault After Punching Black Man And Telling Him Donald Trump Will Deport Him","description":"A trio of Bangor City Council members is denouncing what they say was a hate crime against a black man in downtown Bangor Friday night. Police charged Joshua Pendergast, 42, of Bangor with misdemeanor assault late Monday.\r \r Bangor City Council Chair Joe Baldacci, writing Sunday on his Facebook page, said, \u201c[Two] days ago near Essex and Somerset streets in Bangor a young African American man was punched in the face and pushed to the ground, without any provocation, by an individual who after the assault told the African American man to watch out because Trump could deport him.\r \r \u201cLet\u2019s be clear Bangor does not tolerate this kind of behavior,\u201d Baldacci added.\r \r Similar Facebook messages were posted by Councilors Sarah Nichols and Ben Sprague, who said he was sickened by the reported attack.","more_info":"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2016\/11\/21\/news\/bangor\/council-members-denounce-alleged-pro-trump-attack-as-hate-crime\/","longitude":"-68.7662534","latitude":"44.8062054"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Immigration Museum Vandalized With \\\"Go Back To Your Country\\\"","description":"New Americans Museum staff isn't backing down after finding two anti-immigrant messages scrawled near the entrance over this weekend.\r \r Patrons found the messages Saturday morning on both walls of the entrance to the museum in Liberty Station. \r \r One message read, \"Too much immigration! Go back to your country. This one is ours!\" The other message read, \"Over population & crowding by immigration!\"\r \r Museum Executive Director Linda Sotelo said she was concerned about who would see the messages.\r \r \u201cWe have young children coming through these exhibitions \u2014 children who are diverse. We have over six schools at Liberty Station,\" Sotelo said. \"Many of our children are children of color. They\u2019re all very diverse. For them to feel unwelcome in their own country, it\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d","more_info":"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2016\/nov\/28\/new-americans-museum-reacts-slogans-scrawled-entra\/","longitude":"-117.2134044","latitude":"32.7381864"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Charged With Battery After Punching Latino Worker In Back Of Head \\\"For Donald Trump\\\"","description":"hite Florida man has been charged with battery after he was accused of punching an Hispanic man in the back of the head \u201cfor Donald Trump.\u201d\r \r The Gainesville Sun reported that the incident occurred on Nov. 10 while the victim was cleaning the parking lot at a Gate Food Post store in Gainesville.\r \r According to a police report obtained by Egberto Willies, Caleb Joseph Illig arrived at the parking lot at around 1:10 a.m. and began punching Pablo Echevarria in the back of the head.\r \r The report said that Illig shouted, \u201cLet\u2019s Trump down,\u201d as he punched Echevarria. When Echevarria asked why he was being attacked, Illig reportedly replied, \u201cThis is for Donald Trump.\u201d\r \r The charging document stated that Echevarria attempted \u201cevasive movements\u201d instead of fighting back. Eventually another employee intervened and Illig fled the scene. Echevarria told police that the back of his head and his neck were in pain after the attack but it was not immediately clear if he received medical assistance.\r \r Police said that security footage \u201cclearly shows [Illig] striking [Echevarria] in the back of the head, and completely corroborates the [victim] and [witness\u2019] accounts of the incident.\u201d\r \r On Nov. 20, Illig told officers that he had \u201cno recollection of the incident whatsoever,\u201d and suggest that bipolar disorder and alcohol were to blame.\r \r Illig was charged with simple battery.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/11\/this-is-for-donald-trump-white-man-repeatedly-punches-hispanic-worker-in-the-back-of-the-head\/","longitude":"-82.3387926","latitude":"29.6803331"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Threatens To Set University of Michigan Student On Fire For Wearing Hijab","description":"A University of Michigan student was approached by a stranger who threatened to set her on fire with a lighter if she didn\u2019t remove her hijab, police said.\r \r The incident occurred between 5:30 and 7 p.m. on Friday just outside the campus in Ann Arbor. Police said the woman complied and left.\r \r \u201cWe do consider this a hate crime,\u201d Diane Brown, public information officer for the university\u2019s Division of Public Safety and Security, told The Washington Post. The Ann Arbor Police Department is heading the investigation.\r \r Witnesses described the suspect as a white man in his 20s or 30s with an average height, an athletic build and an unkempt appearance. Police also said the man reportedly appeared to be intoxicated.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/11\/13\/university-of-michigan-student-wearing-a-hijab-threatened-to-be-lit-on-fire-police-say\/?utm_term=.efe9e5551de5","longitude":"-83.7413068","latitude":"42.2761921"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Latina Nanny Attacked By Man Yelling \\\"No Latinos Here\\\"","description":"A Latina woman working as a nanny in SF's Marina district was physically and verbally attacked Monday in a hate crime at Fort Mason\u2019s Great Meadow. As CBS 5 reports, the incident happened while the woman was looking after two small children, and a man dressed all in black with his face covered allegedly approached her, grabbed her by the hair and neck, and said \"No Latinos Here.\" A good Samaritan who witnessed the attack summoned police, and the man suspected in the incident was detained by U.S. Park Police.\r \r The victim was left with scratches on her arms, but was otherwise uninjured.\r \r Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Nathan Sargent confirmed the attack and said, \"This is a welcoming place. We want the national parks to be a place where people can come together and feel welcome.\"\r \r District Supervisor Mark Farrell issued a statement about the incident early Tuesday saying, \"Hate, discrimination, and violence are not welcome and will never be tolerated in San Francisco. San Francisco is known across the world as a place that accepts people for who they are regardless of their religion, ethnicity, or sexual identity.\u201d\r \r Farrell added, \"With hate crimes unfortunately on the rise across the country, we must recommit as a city and country to fight against hate, discrimination, and violence anywhere it may rear its ugly head. Hate and discrimination fester and grow when we do not address and challenge it.\"\r \r Farrell said that the suspect was now in the custody of San Francisco police, and \"If it is indeed found to be a hate crime, I urge the full penalty for the individual who committed this disgusting act.\"","more_info":"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2016\/11\/15\/latina_woman_victim_of_alleged_hate.php","longitude":"-122.4683573","latitude":"37.7669755"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Man Arrested After Saying He Wants To \\\"Shoot All Spanish-Speaking People\\\"","description":"A 56-year-old Patterson man who told two employees of a local grocery store that he \"wants to shoot all Spanish-speaking people\" is in custody, the Putnam County Sheriff's Office announced on Wednesday.\r \r Police say two employees of Putnam Lake Market on Fairfield Drive were talking to each other in Spanish when they were interrupted by Wayne Rossi, who allegedly said, \u201cThis is our country. We speak English here,\u201d and then allegedly threatened \"to shoot all Spanish-speaking people.\u201d\r \r The incident took place around 1 p.m. on Nov. 22. After an investigation, police identified and located Rossi, who police say admitted to confronting the store employee.\r \r Police say they later found Rossi possessed a .22-caliber rifle, which he's legally not allowed to own because he was previously convicted of a felony.\r \r Rossi was arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harrassment, a violation, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Department.","more_info":"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/local\/putnam\/patterson\/2016\/11\/30\/patterson-man-grocery-store-employee-threat\/94707548\/","longitude":"-73.5356839","latitude":"41.4550586"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Non-Muslim Woman With Lupus Attacked For Wearing Headscarf","description":"A Milpitas woman who was hiking at Mission Peak in Fremont wearing a headscarf had her car vandalized, purse stolen, and found a note left there assuming her scarf was a hijab, saying \"This is our nation now.\"\r\n\r\nIn fact, she wears the scarf due to hair loss from a battle with lupus.\r\n\r\nSolonica \u201cNicki\u201d Pancholy says she'll be hiking to the top of Mission Peak every day for 65 days in a \"peace hike\" honoring her grandfather, and processing the election, and she'll now be doing it with the hope of ending ignorance too.","more_info":"http:\/\/sfist.com\/2016\/11\/17\/non-muslim_woman_with_lupus_attacke.php","longitude":"-121.9184905","latitude":"37.5279179"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"\u201cGAS JEWS DIE\\\": Note Left on Professor\\'s Door","description":"Police told WOIO that computer science department chair Benjamin Kuperman woke up at around 3:40 a.m. when he heard noises on the doorstep of the home he shares with his family. According to Kuperman, he came outside to find the sea shells on his porch smashed and a note tucked behind a mezuzah on his door frame that read \u201cGAS JEWS DIE.\u201d","more_info":"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/oberlin-college-professor-anti-semitic-hate-crime","longitude":"-82.2236001","latitude":"41.293483"},{"image":"","video":"","name":"Elementary And Middle School Bathrooms Vandalized With Swastikas","description":"A student discovered a racial slur on the wall of a boys\u2019 restroom at a Maryland elementary school last week and told a teacher, but officials said the teacher did not take immediate action to report the incident.\r\n\r\nThe principal at Sligo Creek Elementary School in Montgomery County said in a letter sent to parents Monday that a teacher failed to report the graffiti slur to the school\u2019s main office and that a building service worker cleaned it away Thursday evening.","more_info":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/student-discovers-racial-slur-on-wall-of-restroom-in-md-elementary-school\/2016\/11\/15\/bbb616d8-aaac-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html","longitude":"-77.0966597","latitude":"38.9809175"}]