by Christopher Mathias, 9/17/2017 "The number of hate crimes rose across the United States in 2016, marking the first time in over a decade that the country has experienced consecutive annual increases in crimes targeting people based on their race, religion, sexuality, disability or national origin. Data collected by the Center for the Study of
by Kevin Rawlinson, 9/22/2017 "The number of police officers and staff in London subjected to racist or religious hate crime has risen by more than 50% in two years, official figures show. Metropolitan police data shows more than 700 of its staff were the subject to such hate crimes in 2016-17. The offences recorded included harassment, racially or
by Angie Leventis Lourgos, 9/22/2017 "A woman has been charged with committing a hate crime after allegedly spray-painting swastikas and anarchist symbols on the home of Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, police said. Bolingbrook police on Wednesday discovered the mayor's property and two other nearby locations had been vandalized with spray paint. Detectives quickly identified a suspect, who
by Associated Press, 9/18/2017 "A third Texas man has pleaded guilty to hate-crime assaults on men because the victims were gay. Chancler Encalade pleaded guilty Monday in Plano to assaulting men because they were gay. Previously, Nigel Garrett and Cameron Ajiduah (ah-JEED'-wah) entered similar pleas to crimes under the federal hate-crimes statute. Encalade, Garrett and
By BBC News, 9/25/2017 "A doctor who was stabbed in the neck on his way to a mosque in a suspected hate crime said he "feared the worst". Consultant surgeon Dr Nasser Kurdy was attacked outside the Altrincham and Hale Muslim Association at about 17:50 BST on Sunday. Dr Kurdy, who has been discharged from
By BBC News, 9/24/2017 "Police are investigating a hate crime in east Belfast in which a pig's head was left at a community centre and racist graffiti sprayed on its walls. The incident happened at Inverary Community Centre at about 05:00 BST on Saturday morning. A DUP councillor said he was "angry and disappointed at
by Richard Winton, 9/20/2017 "A 29-year-old man with white supremacist tattoos has pleaded not guilty to a hate crime and civil rights charges for allegedly threatening to kill customers and employees of Iranian descent inside a Lake Forest hookah lounge. Orange County prosecutors say Andrew Alan Carruthers “acted aggressively” toward customers at the BluFig Hookah
by Stephanie Wang, 9/10/2017 ""This is a hate crime." That's what a white supremacist told a Fort Wayne police officer last year, according to an affidavit, as he confessed to killing a black man. Aaryn Snyder showed the police officer a tattoo — a "patch," the affidavit said, from a "white organization." He said he earned it
by Alene Tchekmedyian 9/7/2017 "A 41-year-old man with a swastika tattoo was charged with a hate crime Thursday after he allegedly beat a man in a Fullerton parking lot while yelling a racial slur at him, officials said. Tyson Theodore Mayfield became agitated when the other man — who is Filipino and Turkish — didn’t
by BBC news 9/7/2017 "The number of LGBT people who have experienced a hate crime in Wales has risen by 82% in four years, figures have shown. Stonewall Cymru said the number had increased from 11% in 2013 to 20% in 2017. The survey was based on YouGov polling of 1,272 LGBT people in Wales.