hate crime
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Miya 'Soho Karen' Ponsetto Charged With Hate Crime for NYC Hotel Incident
At this point, I just enjoy thinking about how much this woman must wish she would've just left Black people TF alone that day.
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Iowa Woman Who Hit Black 12-Year-Old and Latina Teen With Her SUV Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
Nicole Poole Franklin, the white supremacist from Des Moines, Iowa, who on Dec. 9, 2019, hit a Black 12-year-old boy with her SUV and, on the same day, ran over a 14-year-old girl and admitted she did it because she thought the girl “was a Mexican,” has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after…
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SC Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Into Homes of Black and Hispanic Neighbors and Wounding Black Man
Maybe there needs to be a white supremacist offender registry so that Black people and people of color can find out if their neighbors happen to be armed and dangerous neo-Nazis who will hunt them down, even while they are in the confines of their homes. On February 22, 2017, two families of color were…
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Report: White Supremacists Pose Greatest Threat to Domestic Security
A recently released report by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security says that racially motivated extremists (read: white supremacists) are one of the biggest threats to domestic safety. CNN reports that a joint report from both agencies found that 2019 was “the most lethal year” for domestic violent extremism since 1995. 32 people…
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Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty, Hate Crime Charges for Atlanta Spa Shooter
The man accused of killing eight people—including six Asian women—in a shooting spree at three Atlanta-area spas has been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges, and the prosecutor has indicated that she will also seek hate crime charges as well as the death penalty. The Associated Press reports the Fulton County grand jury…
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3 Suspects in Ahmaud Arbery Case Charged With Hate Crimes
The Department of Justice has charged three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery with hate crimes. Travis McMichael, 35; his father, Gregory McMichael, 65; and William “Roddie” Bryan, 51, were indicted Wednesday for targeting and threatening Arbery because of his race. In February 2020, Arbery was running down the street in Brunswick, Ga., when Travis…