By Mark Berman, 8/26/2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that the Charlottesville car attack could be prosecuted as a hate crime, saying that federal authorities “intensely” probing the case could ultimately decide to prosecute the driver in a number of different ways. Sessions cautioned that no federal charges were imminent as officials are still conducting an
By JP Buntinx, 8/20/2017 Recordkeeping is always a controversial concept where crime is concerned. Various details are often never documented at all, or are documented inaccurately. Coming up with a solution to tackle this problem is not so easy. Now that we live in a digital age, one would expect recordkeeping to become less problematic. Sadly, that
By Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner and Lauren Kirchner, Aug. 19, 2017 Because of its “extreme hostility toward Muslims,” the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The views of the site’s director, Robert Spencer, on Islam led the British Home Office to
by Terrence McCoy August 19, 2017 For all that he did in Charlottesville, chanting anti-Semitic slogans, carrying a torch through the college town, he wasn’t even aware that the alt-right existed one year ago. It wasn’t until Hillary Clinton condemned the movement in a campaign speech last August that he first learned of it,
by Olivia Sanchez Thursday, August 03, 2017 "Portland aims to curb hate crimes, which have surged since Donald Trump's campaign, by kickstarting a local hate crime documentation and response system. A new city initiative called Portland United Against Hate is now accepting applications for $350,000 in city grant money, which will be divided among 10 winning
by Jonah Engel Bromwich August 7, 2017 "The governor of Minnesota denounced an attack on a mosque the previous day as a “terrible, dastardly, cowardly” act of terrorism. “It’s an act of terrorism, a criminal act of terrorism,” the governor, Mark Dayton, said on Sunday during a visit to the mosque, Dar Al Farooq, in
By ADAM BAIDAWIJULY 19, 2017 "MELBOURNE, Australia — A bag marked with a swastika and containing a pig’s head was left at the front gate of an Islamic school in Brisbane, Australia, this week. The police were called to the school, the Islamic College of Brisbane, on Wednesday after the bag was discovered by a groundskeeper and
by Lylla Younes, ProPublica, August 17, 2017 Data from a civil rights group shows that reports of hate incidents involving American mosques jumped sharply in 2015 and has remained at the same rate since — about once every three days. "More than 370 hate incidents directed at American mosques and community centers have been tallied
by Robin Eberhardt August 14, 2017 The Illinois Senate on Sunday approved a resolution calling for police to categorize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, according to the Chicago Tribune. The measure came as a response to Saturday's violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., during which one person died and scores more were injured. “It is vital that we
by Laura Evans August 13, 2017 We’re only eight months into the year, but already more LGBTQ people have been killed in 2017 than all of 2016, according to a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. As of this month, the organization counts 33 hate-violence-related homicides of LGBTQ people, topping last year’s