2 face hate crime charge after allegedly vandalizing BLM mural
Two residents from Martinez, California, also face three misdemeanors for their involvement in using black paint to destroy a portion of a mural in front of the city's courthouse.
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Two residents from Martinez, California, also face three misdemeanors for their involvement in using black paint to destroy a portion of a mural in front of the city's courthouse.
Advocates and lawmakers renewed their efforts to pass a hate crime bill after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Althea Bernstein, 18, suffered burns on her face and neck; authorities in Madison are investigating as a hate crime.
FBI found no crime had been committed, adding noose discovered in Wallace's NASCAR garage had been there since October 2019 and was likely just a way to pull door down more easily.
Georgia is one of four states without a hate crime law, but efforts to change that ramped up after Ahmaud Arbery's killing.
Pastor Leon K. McCray Sr. called the incident the "most humiliating, dehumanizing, damning and violating event of my life."
A video of a white woman calling police on a black man who asked her to leash her dog in Central Park has drawn outrage
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia said his office is looking into why Glynn County and the state of Georgia took so long to make arrests, Arbery's family's attorneys said.
Hate crime murders in the U.S. reached a 27-year high in 2018, according to data released Tuesday by the FBI. Twenty-four people were killed in incidents classified as hate crimes, which includes the 11 worshipers slain last year at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest anti-Semitic crime in U.S. history.
Scott Johnson's death was initially ruled a suicide, but an inquest found it was likely he had been either pushed over the cliff or fell while trying to escape assailants.
Grafton Thomas, who is accused of stabbing at least five people in a machete rampage at the New York home of a rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration, pleaded not guilty to five federal hate crime charges Monday. CBSN New York's Tony Aiello reports.
Jussie Smollett is on the defensive again, as he fights off new charges that he lied to police and staged a hate crime. Smollett’s original charges were dropped, but a grand jury recently indicted him on six new charges of disorderly conduct that were linked to the old case. Dean Reynolds reports.
Federal authorities have charged the former leader of a white supremacist group for his alleged involvement in "swatting" calls targeting victims in Virginia, including an unnamed member of President Trump's Cabinet and an investigative journalist. Jeff Pegues reports.
Only a handful of states have no hate crime statutes on their books — Georgia is one of them, but that could soon change.
Nicholas Proffitt also faced hate crime charges more than a decade ago for damaging the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center.
Josef Neumann, 72, died Sunday night, the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said in a tweet.
The NYPD hate crimes task force is investigating two possible anti-Asian bias incidents this week in Manhattan.
Sanders supporters quickly ripped the flag from his hands and the man was escorted out of the building by security. Sanders later called the incident "beyond disgusting."
Prosecutors say Patrick Crusius killed 22 people and wounded 23 more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the Texas border city in August
Walia Mohamed said Jeremy Christian yelled "F--- Muslims" before allegedly killing two men who tried to intervene.
The FBI says the group the teen was involved with coordinated hundreds of SWATing hoaxes on the dark web and had racist and anti-Semitic views.
Officials are responding after a number of anti-Semitic attacks during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
Witnesses to the crash told police that the vehicle accelerated prior to the crash, drove onto the sidewalk and hit the boy.
Investigators are considering hate crime charges in the December 9 incident that left a 14-year-old girl seriously injured.
The attorney general of New Jersey announced their names Wednesday.