hate crime
Elijah Green, a 17-year-old Black teen, was violently attacked by a mob during a concert in Palmdale, California. A video shows Green being beaten while surrounded by individuals yelling racial slurs like “Get that N-word.” No arrests have been made, and no police report was filed, raising concerns about inaction and injustice. Civil rights advocate […]
David Aaron Bloyed, 60, of Frost, Texas, was convicted of interstate communication of a threat after posting violent and antisemitic imagery directed at Nashville District Attorney Glenn Funk. The threats came following an altercation between a neo-Nazi group and a bar worker in downtown Nashville, where one group member used a swastika-topped flagpole to assault […]
Investigators have provided updates on the case of 24-year-old Sam Nordquist, whose remains were found recently. A joint statement from Ontario County prosecutors and New York State Police indicates no evidence that his murder was a hate crime. It was revealed that Nordquist and his alleged attackers, who are all identified as LGBTQ+, knew each […]
Over the weekend there’s a mass shooting at a LGBTQ+ nightclub involving 5 people being killed and 25 injured. The attack happened Saturday night right before midnight, Reports say 2 people stopped the shooter from hurting more people. Police arrested a 22 year old man for the shooting and the violent attack is being called a […]
The 70 year-old Nirmal Singh, was in New York for 2 weeks before he was attacked. Singh was punched in the nose while he was walking back to his residency. Singh is a Sikh man from Punjab, India and is staying at the Sikh Cultural Society. The Police say the attack Monday was unprovoked. CNN […]
Actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail, for lying to police about an alleged hate crime in 2019. Smollett faced up to three years in prison for each of the five felony counts. The Empire TV show star, will also have to pay $120,106 restitution to the city of Chicago in addition […]
The federal hate crimes trial of the three Georgia men charged in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery is scheduled for Jury selection starts Monday. The Justice Department has charged Travis McMichael, Travis’s father Gregory McMichael, and the family’s neighbor William Bryan with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping of the 25-year-old, Arbery. The trial […]
Man arrested for assault by LAPD. The LA police believe the assault was connected to an anti-Semitic hate crime. CNN reported: “In a news release Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department described the man as ‘one of the primary suspects in the assault and beating of several men’ outside a restaurant on Tuesday evening.” The […]
On Friday evening, an unidentified assailant in New York City attacked a 61-year-old Asian man, leaving him fighting for his life. The victim has not been identified. Currently, the crime is being looked at under review as a hate crime. However, there was a surveillance video released by the New York City Police Department’s Hate […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren released a statement regarding the arrest of the man who committed a hate crime. Police arrested 24-year-old Rashad Turner on Monday in connection with the investigation of the hate crime. The assault of a transgender man took place on July 31, on Denver Street. The victim said he was targeted because […]
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