hate crime

Crime

WSSU was prepared when bomb threat came, spokeswoman says

4:44pm February 17, 2022

Winston-Salem State University joined a growing list of historically Black colleges and universities that have recently received a bomb threat, but a university spokeswoman says they were prepared.

National

Greg McMichael reverses plan to plead guilty to a hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery's death

9:50pm February 03, 2022

by The Associated Press

McMichael and his son Travis had agreed to plead guilty in return for serving time in a federal prison instead of a state one in a deal rejected by a judge after Arbery's parents objected to it.

Politics & Government

FBI Seeks To Raise Hate Crime Awareness In North Carolina

10:40am September 15, 2021

by Neal Charnoff

The Charlotte division of the FBI is launching a statewide campaign to raise awareness about federal hate crimes, and is encouraging people to report these offenses to authorities.

A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., pictured here in 2014, was vandalized in Long Beach, Calif.

National

An MLK Jr. Statue Was Vandalized With Graffiti, Prompting A Hate Crime Investigation

4:10pm July 07, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

A statue of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a park in Southern California was vandalized with racist images. Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia called the graffiti "horrific."

The victim, who has not been identified, told San Francisco police that Darrell Hunter "used a hand gesture to mimic a gun, and simulated shooting the occupants of the business."

National

San Francisco Man Who Threatened Asian Woman In Bakery Arrested For Hate Crime

10:28pm March 31, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

The victim first called police on Sunday when she says Darrell Hunter entered the store threatening to shoot Chinese people. Officials arrested him days later when he returned to menace her.

A man holds a sign at an Asian American anti-violence press conference on Tuesday, outside the building where a 65-year-old Asian woman was physically and verbally attacked in New York City. Police said Wednesday that Brandon Elliot, 38, had been arrested

National

Suspect Arrested On Hate Crime Charges Over Attack On Asian Woman In Manhattan

3:28pm March 31, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Brandon Elliot, 38, was arrested Wednesday and faces charges including assault as a hate crime. Elliot is a lifetime parolee who was convicted of fatally stabbing his mother in 2002, when he was 19.

In this Jan. 31, 2020, file photo, a masked worker cleans a street in the Chinatown district in San Francisco. Police and volunteers have increased their street presence after a series of violent attacks against older Asian residents in Bay Area cities st

National

Anger And Fear As Asian American Seniors Targeted In Bay Area Attacks

3:20pm February 12, 2021

by Eric Westervelt

The assaults have prompted some businesses to close early, while volunteers have set up protective escorts for older residents.

Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III, left, and Sean Urbanski. Urbanski was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the murder of Collins in May 2017.

National

White Man Gets Life In Prison For Killing of Black Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III

2:05pm January 15, 2021

by Brakkton Booker

Sean Urbanski, 25, was convicted of murdering Collins in 2017. Limitations in Maryland's hate crime statute exempting Urbanski led to a change in the law.

El Paso Walmart shooting suspect Patrick Crusius, shown here during his capital murder arraignment in El Paso, Texas, is accused of killing 22 people.

National

U.S. Charges Suspect In El Paso Walmart Shootings With Hate Crimes

7:42pm February 06, 2020

Shortly after the attack last August, Patrick Wood Crusius allegedly told police he had driven to the store intending to kill "Mexicans."

Orthodox Jewish men carry Moshe Deutsch's casket outside a Brooklyn synagogue earlier this month. Deutsch was killed in a shooting inside a Jersey City, N.J., kosher food market.

New York To Increase Police Presence After Anti-Semitic Attacks

2:52pm December 27, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

It's "open season on Jews," one New York City council member said in the wake of violence in Brooklyn this week. The attacks come as Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah.