hate crime
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Virginia Family Calls for Hate Crime Investigation After White Man Calls Daughter N-Word and Hits Her With His Truck
A black Virginia family are alleging that their daughter is the victim of a hate crime after a white man called her the n-word and hit her with his truck, dragging her as he sped away. As WUSA-TV reports, Shaunta Wilkins and Kevin Boston spoke to the Prince William County, Va., NAACP and reporters Tuesday…
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Florida Man Sets Black Neighbor’s ‘Flashy’ Car on Fire, Calls Him Racial Slur: Report
Jealousy is never cute, beloved … especially on a white man. But here we are once again in Florida, this time in South Daytona, where a white man called his black neighbor a racial slur before setting the neighbor’s “flashy” car on fire. Florida, man. Ronald Sweet was outside, washing and waxing his silver 2002…
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Bronx, NY, Man Allegedly Beaten by Pizzeria Employee With Wooden Pizza-Making Tool Demands Justice
A Bronx, N.Y., legal assistant and his attorney are pushing for assault charges to be upgraded to a hate crime after a pizza-maker allegedly brutally attacked him outside a New York City pizzeria. Quevaughn Caruth was just getting a slice with friends when, he says, Ali Essa, the former manager of La Vera Pizzeria, lashed…
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Ranting Racist on New York Train Receives Hate Crime Charge: Prosecutor
Although he claimed it wasn’t him in last month’s viral Long Island Rail Road video of a man’s racist rant toward a black woman, 58-year-old Edward Ruggerio has been charged by the Queens, N.Y., district attorney with menacing as a hate crime. In addition to the hate crime, Ruggerio was charged with a count of…
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Illinois Man Arrested for Hate Crime After Yelling Racial Slurs at Black Woman Dropping Daughter Off at School: Report
A Galesburg, Ill., man is facing hate crime charges after authorities say he repeatedly screamed racial slurs at a black woman in the drop-off zone in front of a local high school. According to the Register-Mail, Bradley J. Qualls, 37, is facing multiple charges including two felony counts of hate crime, misdemeanor criminal damage to…
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South Carolina Man Seeks White Supremacist Hit Man to Lynch Black Neighbor, Burn Cross on Lawn: FBI
In a noble attempt to boost the Trump administration’s record-low unemployment numbers, a South Carolina man has been indicted on charges he reached out to undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists, and offered them $500 to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and burn a cross on his lawn. After checking…
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Scottish Man Convicted of Hate Crime After Posting Video of Dog Giving Nazi Salute
As it turns out, Scotland does not play around when it comes to hate speech, “jokes” or not. A 30-year-old man was recently convicted of committing a hate crime after he filmed his girlfriend’s dog giving Nazi salutes, as well as responding to statements such as “gas the Jews,” the BBC reports. Mark Meechan filmed…
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Cornell University Student Facing Hate Crime Charges in Racist Attack Could Be Deported if Convicted [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 6:02 p.m.: Greenwood pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in April. He admitted to using the racial slur but denied being involved in the physical attack. The original charges, including a charge of attempted assault as a hate crime, were dropped due to a “level of doubt.” Earlier: A Canadian citizen…
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Kansas Man Who Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’ Before Killing Indian National Pleads Guilty to Multiple Charges, Faces Life in Prison
Adam Purinton, the 52-year-old Kansas man who opened fire in a local bar last year, killing one Indian national and injuring two other people in an incident that sparked outrage across the globe, has pleaded guilty to his crimes. According to the Washington Post, on Tuesday, Purinton pleaded guilty to one count of premeditated first-degree…
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Black Man in ICU After One-Night Stand’s Racist Brother Attacks Him With Bat
A Washington man lies unconscious in the intensive care unit fighting a traumatic brain injury after a woman’s brother brutally beat him with an aluminum bat and said, “This is what happens when you bring black people around here.” According to the Seattle Times, 26-year-old DaShawn Horne went out to a Seattle club during a…