by Julia Jacobo February 28, 2017 The triple shooting at a Kansas bar that killed a man who immigrated to the U.S. from India is being investigated as a hate crime, the FBI announced today. On Feb. 22, police in Olathe responded to a 911 call of shots fired at Austin's Bar and Grill,
by Dan Gunderman March 5, 2017 The NYPD is investigating a report of possible vandalism at a mainly Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn. On Sunday, a NYPD spokesman said the department's hate crimes division has been notified of headstones found toppled over at Washington Cemetery. Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted photos of the toppled headstones on
by Zak Koeske March 3, 2017 Hate crimes in Chicago hit a five-year high in 2016 and this year are out pacing last year's reports of bias incidents, according to Chicago Police Department data. The 72 crimes that CPD categorized as hate crimes in 2016 — because they were believed to have been motivated
By Artemis Moshtaghian, Huizhong Wu and Susannah Cullinane, CNN March 6, 2017 (CNN)The shooting victim seemed like most of his other neighbors, except that he wore a turban and beard. And it was those hallmarks of his Sikh faith that apparently led another man to confront him in his driveway, tell him to "go
by Liam Stack and Daniel Victor February 15, 2017 The number of extremist groups active in the United States rose for the second year in a row last year, propelled in part by the mainstreaming of far-right rhetoric by the Trump campaign, particularly on topics like immigration and Islam, according to the Southern Poverty
by Matthew Rozsa February 21, 2017 The wave of anti-Semitic hate crime that has swept through America in 2017 has had some new installments: the desecration of a cemetery in Missouri and nearly a dozen bomb threats to Jewish community centers across the country. The Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri, was vandalized
By Associated Press February 22, 2017 WICHITA, Kan. — Two Kansas men have been punished for their roles in a hate crime attack on three Somali men. A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Omar Cantero Martinez to 26 months. Armando Sotelo was given a time served sentence for the 20 months he has already
by Associated Press February 14, 2017 Authorities say a 30-year-old woman is being charged with hate crimes after police say she broke windows and left bacon at a Northern California mosque. The Sacramento Bee reports that the Yolo County district attorney's office announced the arrest of Lauren Kirk-Coehlo of Davis on Tuesday. She is
by Anna North February 9, 2017 Marc Yellin had gotten some political criticism during his six years of blogging about Jewish life in Albuquerque, but nothing like the messages he received last month. The 66-year-old retired technical writer checked his email on the morning of Jan. 13, to find that someone had used the
by Eric Lichtblau February 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump appears on the verge of reversing protections put in place by the Obama administration to stop discrimination against transgender students in schools, officials said Tuesday. Civil rights advocates said that the possible rollback of protections, which could come as soon as Wednesday, would represent