racist attack
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A County Attorney in Washington Resigned Due to ‘Racially Motivated Attacks’
The more I hear about the Pacific Northwest, the more I’m good on ever checking it out. Everything I’ve been told by people who live in the region just makes it sound like white liberal hell. The fact that an elected prosecuting attorney in Washington state resigned from his job due to “racially motivated attacks”…
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Feds Charge Michigan Man With Hate Crime for Attacking Black Teen for Playing ‘Gang Music’
With days left before he was set to graduate from high school, Devin Freelon and his friends decided to visit Sterling State Park in Michigan, a recreational park on the lip of Lake Erie, just an hour away from Detroit. They were playing music in the parking lot when a white man they had never…
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Rep. Jahana Hayes Responds to Coordinated, Racist Attack on Virtual Campaign Meeting: ‘I Am Not OK’
When a group of racist agitators crashed Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes’ virtual listening session on Monday, the congresswoman’s first instinct was to calmly press on, then check on everyone else and make sure they were OK. The first Black woman to represent Connecticut in Congress, Hayes was hosting the campaign event with residents from Newtown.…
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Mississippi Authorities Investigating Possible Hate Crime Charges for Father and Son Who Shot at Black Teens
In Mississippi, a white father-son duo is under investigation for a hate crime after allegedly chasing and shooting at two Black teens who were riding ATVs. The Clarion Ledger reports that the Yazoo County Sheriff’s office charged Wade Twiner, 48, and Lane Twiner, 22, with assault for allegedly shooting at the teens and ramming one…
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A Black Man Says He Was Nearly Lynched by 5 White Men in Indiana, No Arrests Have Been Made
So… Why does there always seem to be so much hesitation to arrest racists who attack Black people and call it vigilante work? It took nearly two months for George Zimmerman to be arrested for the killing of Trayvon Martin (and we all know how that turned out) and it took well over two months…
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Georgia Teen Arrested for Planning Knife Attack on Black Church
Gainesville, Ga., police arrested a white 16-year-old girl for an alleged plot to carry out a knife attack at a black church. A statement released from the Gainesville Police Department Tuesday confirmed that the church was targeted by the girl “based on the racial demographic of the members,” BuzzFeed reports. The girl, whose name has…
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Trump Says Racist Nonsense Because He Means It and Because He Knows He Can Win on It
Donald Trump, in a series of tweets from Sunday night well into Monday morning, doubled down on his racist, xenophobic criticism of four Democratic congresswomen, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. After calling on the congresswomen to go back to their countries and fix them, Trump followed up his attack by…
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Black Man Celebrating Mother's Day With White Wife Was 'Beat to a Pulp by a Bunch of Rednecks'
A black man, a white woman and three generations of racists walk into a bar. “Are you from Africa?” asks one of the white men. “Is it Africa Day?” While this may sound like the opening line to an offensive joke, WKMG and the Daytona Beach News-Journal report that police have charged two Florida men…
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Virginia Man Charged With Hate Crime Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Terrifying Attack on Black Woman
A Virginia man who was facing multiple charges, including committing a hate crime after police said he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 27-year-old Matthew R. Ellis was found not guilty by…