July 15, 2016 The parents of a black teenager shot and killed in December by a white Chicago police officer are accusing the policeman of a hate crime because of language used in text messages the officer exchanged before the shooting, the family's lawyer said on Friday. The allegation is part of an amended lawsuit
July 25, 2016 By: Gonzalo Viña Amber Rudd, home secretary, will launch an awareness campaign against hate crime and scrutinise how police deals with such incidents following a surge in complaints after the Brexit referendum. The weekend following the referendum saw a 57 per cent increase in reported hate crimes, the most notable an attack
24 July 2016 Prosecutors will be urged to push for tougher sentences for people committing hate crimes, following a rise in incidents after the EU referendum. A £2.4m fund will also be set up for security measures at places of worship. A rise in reported hate crimes following the Brexit vote has prompted concerns about
By: Dawn Rhodes | July 25, 2016 A group of Chicago activists has staged a demonstration since Friday near a controversial West Side police facility, vowing not to leave until the City Council formally scraps a proposed ordinance that would make attacking first responders a hate crime. Members from several organizations, forming the Let
By: Willa Frej 07/06/2016 Police in London have made 75 percent more arrests for hate crimes since theBritain voted to leave the European Union. Racially motivated incidents have surged in the city since the June 24 referendum, with the number of recorded hate crimes rising 50 percent, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, London’s Commissioner of Police, said Wednesday. Hogan-Howe confirmed the
JTA Jun 26, 2016 Pew Research Center’s study reported more than half of the anti-religious hate crimes in the U.S. were in part motivated by anti-Jewish bias. JTA — A new study has found that harassment of Jews worldwide continued to increase in 2014, the most recent year studied, even as government restrictions on religion and social
30 JUN 2016 BY RICHARD WHEATSTONE reports to the National Police Chiefs' Council have risen significantly as its chair warns migrants are reporting verbal abuse, anti-migrant leafleting and verbal assaults An explosion of racist and xenophobic abuse on the streets of Britain since last week's Brexit vote has seen hate crime reports soar by more
By: BENOIT FAUCON and ALEXIS FLYNN - Updated June 29, 2016 LONDON—Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday that the U.K. was stepping up its response to hate crimes and called on both sides of the referendum debate to “utterly condemn them”—amid a recent rise in reported hate-crime incidents after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. Addressing
June 29, 2016 WEST HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — A popular YouTube personality was charged Wednesday with making a false report after alleging he was assaulted in a hate crime outside a club in West Hollywood. Calum McSwiggan, 26, of London, faces one misdemeanor count of false report to a peace officer that a felony was committed
By RAPHAEL SATTER and PHILIPPA LAW Jun. 27, 2016 8:33 PM EDT LONDON (AP) — An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation