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
April 20, 2016 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, and local residents spoke before the Illinois House Judiciary - Criminal Committee Monday in support of Kifowit's measure to enhance penalties on offenders who commit hate crimes and allow prosecutors more flexibility in being able to charge hate crimes. This legislation is in response
By Justin Wm. Moyer April 22, 2016 For many, “hate crime” means an act of violence perpetrated against a member of a minority group. But what about targeting someone because they serve and protect? Now, in the era of the “blue lives matter” response to the “black lives matter” movement, some legislators in Louisiana are
April 8, 2016 By New York Times Editorial Board Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at a Republican Party fund-raiser on Thursday in Patchogue, a village on the south shore of Long Island, about 60 miles from Manhattan. This is a wretched development, a disgraceful provocation by the Suffolk County Republicans and their chairman, John
April 4, 2016 by Tracy Bloom A 24-year-old man accused in a hate crime assault against an unarmed African-American student and his brother in front of Irvine High School has been charged in the case and is due in court Monday, officials said. Christopher Qu, of Irvine, allegedly struck the man with a metal pipe
Several years back I worked as a legislative analyst where I reviewed and drafted bills on a range of topics. In doing this work it became obvious that human error and errors of political judgment would occur. Sometimes laws were passed that created unintended problems, in other cases that the piece of legislation had no