Five Morristown, New Jersey black were vandalized overnight.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crimes rose for the second straight year in 2016, with increases in attacks motivated by bias against blacks, Jews, Muslims and LGBT people, according to FBI statistics released Monday. There were more than 6,100 hate crimes last year, up about 5 percent over the previous year. In 2015 and 2016, that […]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A white man was indicted Tuesday on a hate crime charge for allegedly stabbing a black college student to death “because of his race,” a Maryland prosecutor said. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks announced the grand jury indictment against Sean Urbanski at a news conference in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. […]
A 34-year-old cold case involving the racially motivated murder of a 23-year-old black man has been solved with the arrest of five white people – including two police officers who allegedly tried to cover up the homicide. Timothy Coggins was found dead on a power line on Oct. 9, 1983 in a small Georgia town […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Eagle Scout at age 18, Kenneth Gleason graduated with honors from one of Baton Rouge’s most elite high schools and enrolled at Louisiana State University. Five years later, the 23-year-old white man was jailed on charges he gunned down two black men and shot up a black family’s home […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 23-year-old white man arrested Tuesday was accused of killing two black men and firing on a black family in a string of attacks that police say may have been racially motivated. A law enforcement official said they had found a copy of an Adolf Hitler speech at the home […]
The number of hate crimes rose about 5 percent across the United States from 2015 to 2016. It's the first time in over a decade that the country has experienced consecutive annual increases in hate crimes
Charges against 24-year-old William Boucher have been upgraded from misdemeanor battery to felony hate crime charges. He became enraged after someone accidentally spilled coffee on his pants.
CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said. The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in […]
CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said. The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in […]
Alhough authorities aren’t feeling one thousand percent positive that Fredrick Demond Scott, 22, committed all of the murders in the mysterious Indian Creek homicides, he has been charged with two of the killings after DNA evidence linked him to the crimes and surveillance video actually showed him in this latest one. According to what he told police, the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump went home to Trump Tower on Monday for the first time since his inauguration, with a throng of chanting protesters awaiting — but never seeing — him. Thousands of demonstrators roared “shame, shame, shame” and “not my president!” while watching for Trump’s motorcade along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, but it […]
