by Matthew Haag and Jacey Fortin May 27, 2017 The Oregon man accused of screaming anti-Muslim insults at two women, and then fatally stabbing two men and wounding a third as they tried to intervene on Friday, had a history of making extremist remarks, according to the police and civil rights advocacy organizations. In
by Thacher Schmid May 27, 2017 A 35-year-old white supremacist with a criminal record has been arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths Friday of two men on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., who intervened when he began to hurl anti-Muslim epithets at two women, one who was wearing a head scarf, police
by Associated Press May 30, 2017 A California man is facing hate crime and other charges after police say he stabbed a black man with a machete after yelling racial slurs over the holiday weekend. Police in Clearlake, about 80 miles north of San Francisco, say they responded to an apartment complex Saturday night
May 27, 2017 A bomb threat, racist taunts and graffiti are among a significant rise in hate crimes reported to Greater Manchester Police following Monday's attack, the BBC can reveal. The force said the number of such reports had doubled to 56 on Wednesday, from the 28 reported on Monday. Chief Constable Ian Hopkins
May 27, 2017 NPR's Michel Martin talks with Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich about raised concerns of an increase in hate crimes after stabbings in Maryland and Oregon. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A stabbing attack on a train in Portland, Ore., has left two people dead. The attacker was shouting what
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 documents obtained by ABC News. The decision emerged from the West Virginia v. Steward Butler case, which involves an April
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 targeting a victim because of gender identity. Vallum had pleaded guilty last year to the 2015 assault and murder of
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 at the West Chazy Recreation Park. State police say the boys used permanent marker to scrawl the grafitti. The incident
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 the spot where witnesses said he had plunged his knife into a black man’s chest. The victim was pronounced dead
by Veronica Rocha May 18, 2017 Two Texas men were sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for severely beating a Sikh man in Richmond, Calif., and cutting off some of his hair last year, officials said. Chase Little, 31, of Beaumont, and Colton Leblanc, 25, of Winnie, pleaded no contest to felony assault