Source: USA Today
A University of Hartford student faces a hate crime charge after she admitted to covertly harassing her black roommate, according to police.
Hartford Police are requesting that Brianna R. Brochu, 18, be charged with intimidation based on bigotry or bias, after she bragged on social media about rubbing bodily fluids on her roommate’s backpack and tainting her toothbrush and food, the Hartford Courant reported.
Source: The Inquirer
The former chief of a small South Jersey police department was released from federal custody on $500,000 bail to await trial on bias and civil rights charges that have rocked his Bordentown Township community, though local civil rights officials said Thursday they had not received any complaints about him.
Source : The Telegraph
American rapper Lil B has been temporarily banned from Facebook after the social network ruled he violated its hate speech policies.
The 28-year-old received a 30-day ban from the social media platform after a post about white people and gun violence.
Source: UsNews.com
CROFTON, Md. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to committing a hate crime by hanging a noose outside a middle school has delivered a public apology, saying he didn’t mean to scare or discriminate against anyone because of their race.
Nineteen-year-old Conner Prout stood before roughly 60 people at a meeting of the Caucus of African-American Leaders on Tuesday and apologized for his role in a stunt that sent Crofton Middle School students running to the guidance counselor’s office in tears, the Capital reports.
Source: The Herald
Almost a third of LGBTI Scots who have experienced hate crime have been the victim of at least 10 attacks, new research has revealed.
A survey of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and inter-sex people in Scotland found that three fifths (61%) considered themselves to have been a target of a hate crime at some point in their lives.
Source: The Detroid News
As hate crimes targeting Muslims and Jews rise across the United States, according to advocacy groups, the key to sparking change in Metro Detroit lies in forging ties and fighting back, activists said Tuesday.
“You’ve got to speak up,” said Farooq Kathwari, president/CEO of Ethan Allen Interiors and co-chair of the national Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council. “Silence is not a good option.”
Source: Huffpost
A surgeon who treated victims of the Manchester Arena bombing in May was stabbed in the neck on Sunday as he entered his mosque in what police are treating as a hate crime.
“As I entered the grounds of the premises, I felt that pain and the blow to my neck,” Nasser Kurdy, 58, told The Guardian on Monday. “I turned around and saw this gentleman in a threatening pose. I did feel threatened, I did feel vulnerable.”
Source : The New York Times
State authorities in New Hampshire are investigating a possible hate crime after a family reported that their 8-year-old boy was pushed by teenagers off a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him. The boy, who is biracial, was treated in the hospital and released, the police said.
The attack occurred Aug. 28 in Claremont, a city of about 13,000 in the western part of the state, and came to light after the boy’s mother, Cassandra Merlin, posted a photograph of her son’s bloodied neck and a statement about it on her Facebook page. “It truly saddens me that even in a city so small, racism exists,” she wrote.
Source : The New York Times
After violence erupted over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., writers from across the political spectrum were overwhelmingly united in their condemnation of the white supremacy and racism underlying the “Unite the Right” protest.
Pundits on the right who have been consistently critical of President Trump saw his equivocating response to the events — blaming “many sides” for the violence — as yet another sign of his inadequacy as the Republican leader. Others on the right condemned white supremacist ideology, but were eager to point to the violence of Antifa, the anti-fascist group that comprised many of the counterprotesters.
Source: The New York Times
This Week in Hate highlights hate crimes and harassment around the country since the election of Donald Trump.
When Alandes Powell arrived at her son’s high school on Sunday, she saw a swastika and the word “Trump” spray-painted on a building. On benches and a sign at the school’s new baseball field, she saw more graffiti, including racist and homophobic slurs.
A friend had alerted Ms. Powell to the vandalism at Withrow University High School in Cincinnati, where her son is a senior and football player. Her first reaction was anger. “You want education to be a safe place,” she said. “These kids are just growing into who they want to be.”
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