Tag Archives: Hate Crime

A Chicago police chief is coming forward about Jussie Smollett‘s staged hate crime hoax and how he wanted him to simply apologize. Eddie Johnson, the Chicago Police Department Chief in 2019, told “Morning in America” the full story about wanting the actor to apologize. He said, “I want people to …

The fatal shooting of a retired Massachusetts state trooper and an Air Force veteran is now being investigated as a hate crime.  Investigators found “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people made by Nathan Allen, 28, before the shooting. CBS News reports that he wrote “about …

A memorial statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn was vandalized less than a week after it was unveiled. The New York City Police Department is now looking into the vandalism as a hate crime carried out by a white nationalist group. The memorial, unveiled on Juneteenth, was spray-painted by four individuals around 3:40 a.m. …

Two statues of George Floyd have been defaced. The statue in Newark, NJ and Brooklyn, NY were both discovered vandalized Thursday morning. Authorities believe the crime—which will be investigated as a hate crime—was committed by a white nationalist hate group. Authorities are searching for four men seen on surveillance footage committing …

The Alameda County district attorney’s office charged a white lady with a hate crime last Wednesday after she accosted a Black Amazon driver in April and called 911 on him, claiming that he was “trying to escape” as she attempted to stop him from driving away. On April 18, Julie …

A white Ohio man has been charged with a hate crime for threatening to shoot a Black DoorDash driver. James Rhodes was captured on video earlier this month shouting at the driver, Kiauna Larkins, who was delivering an order to the Wyndham Ridge Apartments complex in Stow, Ohio, on April …

Police are investigating a possible hate crime after a white man assaulted an elderly Black man who had “BLM” written on his car. Police say that 35-year-old Kyle Davis of Thousand Oaks drove up next to a 70-year-old Black man on Saturday afternoon. Davis began shouting racial slurs at the …

A Michigan man has admitted that he purposely knocked a Black teenager’s teeth out in a shocking hate crime. Lee Mouat is facing ten years in prison after he pled guilty on Tuesday to attacking 18-year-old Devin Freelon, Jr. because he was Black. The incident happened on June 6th when …

The Atlanta spa shooter’s parents helped police apprehend their son after he embarked on a slew of murders that shocked the nation. Not long after 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long‘s first half of his killing spree, which left four people murdered and a fifth injured at one spa, authorities were able …

Jennifer Susan Wright is known around her South Florida neighborhood for her extremist support of Donald Trump, from constantly posting on Facebook to setting up Halloween displays that falsely accused the Biden family of running a crime empire. Police say that the doctor took her anger out on a Hispanic …

Washington, D.C. police are looking into possible hate crimes after Black Lives Matter signs were torn down and burned at churches during a pro-Trump rally. Some of the incidents were caught on camera.  Over the weekend, fans of Donald Trump and members of the far-right, neo-fascist group Proud Boys stormed …

A Black teen was the victim of a heinous hate crime that left him with a broken jaw. The shocking ordeal took place on June 6th in Monroe County, Michigan. 18-year-old Devin Freelon Jr. and two friends were innocently playing music as they walked to the parking lot of William …

A white couple from Martinez, California have now been hit with hate crime charges after a video posted to Twitter showed them painting over a Black Lives Matter mural on the 4th of July. The bright yellow mural was painted on the street outside of a courthouse in Martinez, and …

An 18-year-old Black woman in Madison, Wisconsin, was burned with lighter fluid in a suspected hate crime early Wednesday, according to a Madison police report. The woman, who has been identified as a local EMT by the name of Althea Bernstein, was stopped at a red light near State Street …

Patrick Crusius, the man who performed a domestic terrorist attack at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, which targeted Hispanics, has been charged with federal hate crimes. A Texas federal court filed an indictment on Thursday, which stated that the 22-year-old white supremacist was charged with 90 counts under federal hate …

A woman in Iowa who admitted to police that she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit and run crash that injured a black 12 year old boy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ According to WKRN, Nicole Franklin, who also goes by the name …

An 11-year-old white girl is being charged with a hate crime after a 10-year-old African-American girl was subjected to a black eye and “racially motivated language.” On Monday, police said three girls were involved in the assault on a school bus in Gouverneur, New York, about 100 miles north of …

After two weeks of misinformation and speculation in the wake of Jussie Smollett’s racist, homophobic attack in Chicago, the “Empire” actor has officially turned over his phone records – but since, Smollett’s evidence was ”limited and heavily redacted,”  officials remain at a standstill in the case.  Back in January, Smollett was …

Back in January, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was attacked in what Chicago police called a hate crime. In the initial report, provided by Smollett’s 60-year-old friend, Smollett was attacked by two men who were hollering homophobic and racial slurs. According to police, Smollett was found with stained clothing and “white …

Hate crimes have increased by 17 percent last year compared to numbers in 2016, the FBI reports.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The FBI released a yearly “Hate Crime Statistics” report, which consists of various bias-motivated incidents that were submitted to the FBI by 16,149 law enforcement agencies. The report shows law enforcement agencies reported …