by Kay Lazar March 11, 2017 Nicole Bradick wants to arm people with a simple tool that can help them make sense of an utterly senseless act. Bradick, a former civil rights attorney in Maine, had been watching news of mosques vandalized, immigrants bullied, and Jewish communities enduring bomb threats. She wondered how someone
by Rocco Parascandola March 14, 2017 Since immigrating to New York from China in 1986, Zenxin Wang has loved the diversity of the city and how people of different backgrounds get along in harmony. Now, the 68-year-old limo driver worries for his safety after a stranger whacked him over the head with an umbrella
March 13, 2017 A Bakersfield man found guilty of a hate crime in Oildale will be sentenced Monday. Justin Whittington, who gained notoriety after video surfaced showing him hitting a child in 2015, was found guilty in federal court in December for a hate crime committed more than five years. According to the Department
by Cleve R. Wootson March 12, 2017 The disturbance at the Middle Eastern restaurant was bizarre at first, but within minutes it morphed into a violent, one-sided assault. Jason Kendall was walking down State Street about 3 p.m. Saturday when he saw a woman standing inside Al Aqsa Restaurant in Salem, Oregon, according to
March 6, 2017 Stuart Wright has two tattoos. On his left arm is the phrase “Jesus Is Love,” according to police. On his right shoulder, a swastika. 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.
by Kristin Hussey and Matthew Haag February 22, 2017 STAMFORD, Conn. — When Lexene Charles got into his car here on the Saturday before Martin Luther King’s Birthday, he was stunned by what he saw outside his home. He called for his longtime partner, Heather Lindsay, to come outside. Someone had spray-painted an anti-black
by Veronica Rocha February 27, 2017 Police in West Covina are investigating graffiti that was sprayed on two church statues as a possible hate crime. Surveillance video shows someone in black clothing and a mask walking up to St. Christopher Catholic Church, at 629 S. Glendora Ave., just before 4 a.m. Saturday, according to Cpl. Rudy
by Associated Press February 28, 2017 The FBI said for the first time that it is investigating as a hate crime last week's Kansas bar shooting that killed an Indian man and wounded another. The FBI said in a statement Tuesday that it bases that probe on "the initial investigative activity" involving the Feb. 22 attack at Austins
by Mary Papenfuss February 27, 2017 A Virginian accused of biting a stranger on his face after shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man in a shopping mall parking lot has been charged with a hate crime, police said. The confrontation occurred late last year, but the suspected attacker wasn’t arrested until Monday, after a
by Olivia Beavers March 1, 2017 A gunshot fired at an Indiana synagogue classroom is being investigated by the FBI as a possible hate crime, according to an Indianapolis Star report. The bullet pierced a window at the Adath B’Nai Israel Temple’s Sunday school, damage that was discovered Monday amid a wave of bomb threats at Jewish