Associated Press May 30, 2016 In April 2015, police say, a Marshall University football player saw two men kissing on a West Virginia street, hopped out of the passenger seat of a car, shouted homophobic slurs and attacked the men, punching them in the face. Those charges against Steward Butler may sound like a textbook hate-crime
Som Chaturvedi May 16, 2016 On Wednesday, May 11, UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a lecture given by Erroll Southers, adjunct professor of homeland security and public policy at the University of Southern California (USC), in CHASS Interdisciplinary South 1113. SPP career counselor Brian Nakamura introduced Southers for the evening’s event. Southers also
Dana Farrington May 26, 2016 Louisiana's hate-crime protections now cover law enforcement and first responders. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the legislation on Thursday after it had passed easily in the Republican-controlled Legislature, NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. People convicted of intentionally targeting police officers, firefighters or emergency medical crews will now face stricter penalties —
Charlinda Robinson May 17, 2016 A lone wolf could potentially be almost anyone, but this person has a very different (and dangerous) mindset than most individuals. Veteran journalist Tony Harris investigates the deadly homegrown threat of lone wolves that is spreading across the nation. He walks the streets of communities that are left shaken by
David Matthau May 6, 2016 Terrorism and intelligence experts from across the Mid-Atlantic region are gathering Friday in New Jersey, for a special conference on domestic terrorism sponsored by the state Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness. Director Chris Rodriguez said because terrorism doesn’t conform to state borders it’s important to meet with experts from
Isaac Chotiner May 9, 2016 Several weeks ago, in Washington, D.C., a Muslim woman was called “a worthless piece of Muslim trash” and a “terrorist” by a fellow Starbucks customer and, presumably, American citizen. After pouring something on the Muslim woman, the assaulter told her victim that she was planning on voting for Donald Trump,
Eliott C. McLaughlin and Aaron Cooper May 23, 2016 Perhaps no one found Baltimore police Officer Edward Nero's not-guilty verdict Monday so surprising. But to hear the families of Nero and of Freddie Gray, the young black man who Nero was accused of assaulting, both lauding the judge who handed down the decision? Surely no
by Lyndsay Winkley May 2, 2016 Investigators are calling the January stabbing of a black man a hate crime and have arrested three Latino men in connection with the slaying, a San Diego Sheriff's Department official said Monday. Hugh Pettigrew, 33, was walking home along Ammunition Road in Fallbrook when three men attacked and knifed
Menachem Rephun April 12, 2016 Hate crimes in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) region are not being reported by participating states, according to a joint report released Tuesday by Human Rights First and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), The report, “Scorecard on Hate Crime Response in the OSCE Region” noted that some OSCE countries
Alison Hige and Alicia Gonzalez May 3, 2016 A wrap-up of the weekend’s ISIS news. On Sunday, ISIS killed more than fifty people in Iraq, mostly innocent civilians. On Saturday, ISIS members hacked a Hindu tailor to death with a machete in Bangladesh. ISIS is suspected in a car bombing in Turkey that killed two