Tag Archives: Hate Crime

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 …

Innocent Black people have been having the police called on them lately for performing normal, everyday activities. The epidemic has raised such controversy that the phrase “while Black” has been coined by media. But now, a New York State Senator wants to make calling the police on innocent Black people …

It appears that some people are becoming the terrorists they “feared,” by attacking innocent citizens at an alarming rate.   According to a report by the F.B.I,  there were a total of 5,818 hate crimes in 2015. Hate crimes include assaults, bombings, threats and property destruction against minorities, women, gays and …