hate crime
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Over $200,000 Raised to Repair Black Miss. Church Burned, Vandalized With 'Vote Trump'
A GoFundMe campaign set up to help repair the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., which was set on fire earlier this week and marked with “Vote Trump” written in graffiti, has raised $201,823 as of Friday morning, exceeding its original $10,000 goal. Some 5,755 people contributed money toward the cause. About 80 percent…
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NYC Woman Finds N-Word Written on Her Door With Tomato Sauce Thrown on It
Dolly Ragoo discovered Monday that the door to her home had been splashed with tomato sauce and had the n-word scrawled on it, the New York Daily News reports. Ragoo, who lives in Queens, N.Y., is of Indian descent, and after finding the vandalism on her door, she was terrified. “This called me [n—ger] because I’m…
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Miss. Black Church Burned, Vandalized With Words ‘Vote Trump’
A Greenville, Miss., black church was burned and vandalized Tuesday night, Mississippi News Now reports. According to the report, authorities responded to a call about a church burning after 11 p.m. The Hopewell M.B. Church was found burned and also vandalized, with the words “Vote Trump” spray-painted in white on the outside of the building.…
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Miss. NAACP: White Students Put Noose Around Black Student's Neck, 'Yanked Backward'
White students at a Mississippi high school put a noose around a black schoolmate’s neck and “yanked backward,” the state NAACP revealed Monday, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, Mississippi NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel said the incident took place Oct. 13 at a field house at the Stone County High School in Wiggins,…
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Iowa Man Convicted of a Racially Motivated Hate Crime Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
An Iowa white supremacist who brutally beat a black man in a Dubuque, Iowa, bar last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what a federal judge slammed as a “brutal and outrageous attack,” the Washington Post reports. “This vicious attack threatened the most basic standards of human decency and dignity,” Deputy Assistant…
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Ala. Mom Says Son Was Brutally Beaten Because of Pro-Police Stance
A Sylacauga, Ala., mom is demanding justice after her 17-year-old son was found brutally beaten following his high school’s Friday night homecoming game, WBRC reports. Brandi Allen says her son Brian Ogle’s skull was broken in three places. “Apparently he was hit with something that is presumed to be the butt of the pistol. He has…
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Ore. Man Accused of Intentionally Running Over Black Teen Faces Hate Crime Charges
An Oregon man and his girlfriend are now facing new hate crime charges after they allegedly intentionally ran over a black teen, killing him, following an altercation in a convenience store parking lot, the Associated Press reports. Russell Courtier, 38, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of first- and second-degree intimidation in the death of…
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Man Accused of Running Over, Killing Black Teen Is Linked to White Supremacist Prison Gang: Cops
Investigators say that that an Oregon man accused of running over a black teen and killing him is associated with a white supremacist prison gang, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, police are not sure what started the fight between Russell Courtier and Larnell Bruce or why, according to authorities, Courtier chased the…
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Minn. Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Firebombing Somali Restaurant in Hate Crime
A Minnesota man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime for starting a fire at a Somali restaurant in North Dakota, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors said that Matthew Gust did not like Somalis and did not want them living in the area. Gust, of East…