A California man accused of killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein and burying him in a shallow grave is allegedly a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi with ties to an armed fascist group, according to a report.
Samuel Woodward, 20, was arrested earlier this month on charges that he stabbed high school friend Bernstein at least 20 times and then buried him at a park near his parents’ Lake Forest Home.
Hate crimes in New York City were stubbornly flat in 2017, sustaining almost all of 2016’s double digit election year increase and hovering about 9 percent above the decade average. Even with the slight 1.7 percent dip from 345 to 339, 2017 remains the fourth highest year for hate crime in the city since 2002, as various targeted groups like Jews, African-Americans and Muslims experienced significant increases in attacks. In contrast, crime overall in the city is down to levels not seen since the 1950s, with a 5.4 percent drop last year alone, the fourth consecutive annual decrease in a row.
(SANTA ANA, Calif.) — The parents of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student killed and buried in a California park said Tuesday that the killing may have been a hate crime against their gay son.
The family statement came after a search warrant affidavit obtained by a newspaper revealed that Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, the high school friend arrested on suspicion of killing Blaze Bernstein, told investigators that Bernstein had kissed him and he had pushed him away before they went to the park.
Days after learning her husband, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, had been killed by a man who questioned his immigration status, Sunayana Dumala poured her pain out in a widely read Facebook post. She wrote about the love and light her husband had brought into the world and all the dreams they’d had about building a new life in the United States together. But there was a question pulsing underneath all these reflections, an existential anxiety about her place in America’s social fabric that she could not shake. So she ended the post with a question she believed was on every immigrant’s mind after the shooting: “DO WE BELONG HERE?”
An alleged bigot who got a slap on the wrist after a Bronx hate-crime arrest is now accused of beating a transgender woman with a chair on Christmas Day.Kane Sekou, 40, attacked the 31-year-old victim in a Brooklyn homeless shelter, yelling anti-gay slurs as he struck her in the back, prosecutors said Wednesday. He was indicted on hate-crime assault charges.
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A central Virginia man has been convicted of committing a hate crime against a co-worker.
James William Hill III, 36, of Chester, assaulted a co-worker at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Chester in May 2015. Evidence showed that he did it because of the co-worker’s perceived sexual orientation and, afterward, he admitted to an Amazon manager and a Chesterfield County Police Officer that he dislikes people who are gay.
This week, the FBI released its hate crime stats for 2016 and they reveal some interesting trends: Hate crimes in the US saw a rise over the year — especially incidents targeting Muslims and whites.
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Several students at a regional high school in Norfolk are being disciplined for harassing a classmate and the classmate’s mother in an incident the school’s superintendent described as a “hate crime.”
The students directed “inappropriate and racist slurs” at the victim, who was their sports teammate at King Philip Regional High School, King Philip Regional School District Superintendent Elizabeth Zielinski said in a statement posted to the school’s website.
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A white Cornell University student who was facing an assault charge for a September incident, in which he is said to have called a black student a racial slur and then punched him in the face, on Monday was also charged with a hate crime.
“This was something we knew was a possibility from the beginning,” Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins County district attorney, said of the hate crime charge. “That kind of charge is not something you want to bring hastily; you have to carefully review all the evidence and take a deep breath. But when someone is selected based on their race or national origin or some other protected category, that’s what makes it a hate crime.”
Source: The Root
A fire at a Jordanian restaurant in Wichita, Kan., could now be investigated as a hate crime after graffiti was discovered in the back of the restaurant with the warning, “Go Back.”
Owners Ranya Taha and Bashar Mahanwe woke up to a phone call at 2:10 a.m. Wednesday alerting them to a two-alarm fire at their business, Petra Mediterranean Restaurant. As the Wichita Eagle reports, the fire gutted the restaurant, laying to waste a year of the family’s hard work.
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