All tagged hate crime
This week marks seven years since the death of 16-year-old Kedarie Johnson in Burlington, Iowa. The teen was gender nonconforming and non-binary, and was murdered seemingly in response to that gender expression. Still Kedarie's killers, two cisgender men, were not charged with a hate crime.
Two British teens were charged Wednesday, Feb. 16 with the murder of a transgender girl, according to People. The teens, both 15, are accused of fatally stabbing Brianna Ghey, 16.
Five people have died and 18 injured after a gunman opened fire late Saturday evening at a LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The suspect, 22-year-old Anderson Aldrich, is facing charges of first-degree murder and biased motivated crimes and remains hospitalized.
Today marks the 24th anniversary of one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in American history. Beaten, tortured, and left for dead, 21-year-old Matthew Shepard was found tied to a fence in a remote field near Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard's case sparked a national and international conversation about sexual orientation as a motive for murder, and inspired hate crime legislation.
Randy Smith of Eugene, Oregon, pled guilty Tuesday to federal hate crime charges and making false statements to the FBI in connection with a 2018 assault of a Black man in Lynwood, Washington.
On April 30, Yan was making a delivery on his scooter when Glenn Hirsch allegedly shot him in the chest over a duck sauce. According to the restaurant owner, Glenn frequently harassed his workers at the eatery with a gun and had disturbing encounters. Repeated calls to the police over the angry customer did not stop anything. Recently released photos of the apartment show that Hirsch’s apartment was filled to the ceiling with cardboard boxes, black trash bags, old newspapers, CDs, and plastic containers of old documents.
An Illinois man has been arrested and charged with a hate crime and criminal damage to property after destroying property and vandalizing the UpRising Bakery and Café for their upcoming family-friendly drag brunch.
For three years, Michael Thomas Pruden used pepper spray to assault men in Washington D.C.’s Meridian Hill Park. He could receive decades for the hate crime charges.
On Wednesday, June 15, Brazil Johnson was fatally shot near Teumonia and Garfield Avenue in Milwaukee. Authorities have been unable to find clues leading to a suspect. Milwaukee Crime Stoppers are offering a $28,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest for the murder of Brazil Johnson.
A team searching for documents relating to the lynching death of Emmett Till recently found an unserved arrest warrant for his accuser Carolyn Bryant Donham in the basement of the Leflore County Courthouse in Mississippi. Now, his family members are calling for the warrant to be served 70 years later.
Around 1 a.m. on Saturday in Oslo, Norway, gunman Zaniar Matapour shot up the area near London Pub, a well known gay bar, killing two men, one in his 50s and another in his 60s, and injuring more than 20 people.
The Department of Justice has filed multiple federal hate crime charges against the alleged Buffalo mass shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron.
In 1660, Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts for her protests against Puritan anti-Quaker laws. Her civil disobedience laid a path for the religious tolerance that the American government was founded on a century later.
On June 10th, 42-year-old Daniel Damien Lucey set fire to the front of Salem’s Satanic Temple building. He was arrested and confessed to the hate crime on the same evening.
The Biden Administration has announced new steps they will be taking to fight and prevent hate crimes across the country. This comes less than a week after the shooting in Buffalo, New York, along with on the year anniversary of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes and Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Acts.
Dallas Country police arrested Jeremy Smith on Tuesday, May 17 for the shooting at Dallas Koreatown’s own Hair World Salon, totaling three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Smith is currently being held in custody as police begin their interviews with him, asserting to provide more information to the public afterward.
Suspect Arrested and Hate Crime Investigation Opened for Dallas Hair Salon Shooting.
A suspect was arrested early Tuesday morning in connection with the May 11 shooting in Dallas, TX.
Authorities have reported that a man dressed in all black opened fire on a hair salon before driving away in a maroon minivan. The salon, called Hair World Salon, is a Korean-run business. Three women were shot and hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Ten people have died and three others wounded in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Top’s supermarket on the east side of Buffalo.
Long distance partners Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight met up for a romantic weekend of camping and hiking around the Appalachian Trail in the spring of 1988. At the time, they felt like they might spend the rest of their lives together. However, their time was cut short when Rebecca and Claudia were attacked by a stranger in the woods 34 years ago today.
A federal jury yesterday found Travis and Gregory McMichael, along with William Bryan guilty of hate crime charges after the murder of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020.
