hate crime

A white woman faces a felony hate crime charge after police said she initiated a racist confrontation with a group of Black men at a beach in suburban Chicago

Cynthia Choi of Chinese for Affirmative Action breaks down the increasing number of violent incidents directed at Asian Americans in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and how President Trump’s rhetoric has fueled the violence.

Incidents of racism have become more visible due to cell phone cameras and social media, but hate crimes are still underreported across the U.S., according to Roy L. Austin, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. The reasons include distrust between the Black community and law enforcement, and a lack of incentive for officials to report...

A man stabbed another man inside a grocery store in Bowie, Maryland, on Wednesday after making comments about the Black victim’s white partner, police say. A hate crime investigation is underway.  The victim was stabbed in the leg with a pocketknife after a struggle with the attacker. He was treated at the scene.  The man and woman were shopping...

An alleged assault on a biracial woman in Madison is being investigated as a hate crime after the 18-year-old told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man, just a few blocks from protests at the state Capitol.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for a man accused of opening fire inside a Poway synagogue last year, killing a woman and injuring three others.

A white nationalist Norwegian who killed his stepsister and then stormed an Oslo mosque and opened fire, hitting no one, was found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the longest jail term under Norwegian law. Philip Manshaus, who had said in court that he regretted not having caused more damage, “has proven to be an extremely dangerous…

A video released this week shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car in 2017, and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the vehicle, an officer tries to use a stun gun on him. First obtained by The Guardian, the video released Monday shows Arbery refusing Glynn County police when they...

The attorney for a homeowner thrust into the spotlight of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting says a young black man filmed by a security camera walking through the unfinished home in December and February may have stopped there for a drink of water

Less than two weeks before Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men and fatally shot after purportedly entering a home under construction in Brunswick, Georgia, one of the suspects reported an encounter with a man at the same building site, according to NBC News.

The owner of a house under construction that played a role in the deadly shooting of a black man in Georgia says nothing was stolen from the house

Georgia’s attorney general has appointed a black district attorney from the Atlanta area to take over the case of a white father and son charged with killing a black man

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia black jogger slain in a pursuit by two white men armed with guns, called for their immediate arrests Thursday during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”

When the Asian passenger doesn’t move after getting yelled at by the enraged man, he gets sprayed with the air freshener Febreze in his direction for about 15 seconds

A student was charged with committing a hate crime for sending anti-Semitic messages to another student’s cell phone at the University of Maryland, detectives said.

The parents of a black college student who was stabbed to death at the University of Maryland are scheduled to urge lawmakers to strengthen the state’s hate crime law

Parents of a man murdered in what they believed to be a hate crime are championing a law that bears his name and aims to strengthen Maryland’s hate crime statute. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy spoke on News4 about the conviction of Sean Urbanski in the murder of Lt. Richard Collins III. “It was a hate crime. Howeve,r how our hate crime statute was written in Maryland, it’s very narrow and you have to prove that hate was the only factor,” Braveboy told News4’s Erika Gonzalez and...

Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

A federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted the suspect in the Hanukkah stabbings in Rockland County of federal hate crime charges, a law enforcement source tells News 4 New York. Grafton Thomas, 37, was previously charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with allegedly obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in bodily injury in connection to the Dec. 28,…