“Hate” In the News

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

    MAN CHARGED WITH CHICAGO HATE CRIME AGAINST SYNAGOGUE

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    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

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    An Anti-Black Slur on an Interracial Couple’s Garage Stirs Tension in Connecticut

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    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

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    Vandalism at West Covina church investigated as possible hate crime

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    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

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    FBI investigates Kansas bar shooting as hate crime

    By | March 7th, 2017|Articles|

    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

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