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 saw outside his home. He called for his longtime partner, Heather Lindsay, to come outside. Someone had spray-painted an anti-black
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 mask walking up to St. Christopher Catholic Church, at 629 S. Glendora Ave., just before 4 a.m. Saturday, according to Cpl. Rudy
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 a statement Tuesday that it bases that probe on "the initial investigative activity" involving the Feb. 22 attack at Austins
by Mary Papenfuss February 27, 2017 A Virginian accused of biting a stranger on his face after shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man in a shopping mall parking lot has been charged with a hate crime, police said. The confrontation occurred late last year, but the suspected attacker wasn’t arrested until Monday, after a
by Olivia Beavers March 1, 2017 A gunshot fired at an Indiana synagogue classroom is being investigated by the FBI as a possible hate crime, according to an Indianapolis Star report. The bullet pierced a window at the Adath B’Nai Israel Temple’s Sunday school, damage that was discovered Monday amid a wave of bomb threats at Jewish
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