“Hate” In the News

/“Hate” In the News

    Below are news stories and events related to hate crimes and domestic terrorism from around the world!

    West Virginia Supreme Court rules anti-gay assaults are not hate crimes

    By | May 30th, 2017|Articles|

    by Courtney Connley May 11, 2017   In a 3-2 decision Tuesday, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that anti-gay assaults are not protected under the state's hate crime law, according to court

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    1st Man Prosecuted For Federal Hate Crime Targeting Transgender Victim Gets 49 Years

    By | May 30th, 2017|Articles|

    by Colin Dwyer May 16, 2017   A federal court in Mississippi handed down a 49-year prison sentence on Monday to Joshua Brandon Vallum, the first person prosecuted under the Hate Crimes Prevention Act for

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    Chazy teens charged with hate crimes

    By | May 30th, 2017|Articles|

    May 22, 2017   Four teenagers in the town of Chazy in Clinton County have been charged with hate crimes after they drew a swastika and wrote other anti-Semitic and racist "statements" on a building

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    Officials Decline to Call Fatal Stabbing of Black Student a Hate Crime

    By | May 30th, 2017|Articles|

    by Matt Stevens May 22, 2017   The police found the white man, a student at the University of Maryland, at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, sitting on a campus bench a few feet away from

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