Hate Crimes

The fate of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will be determined Tuesday in a recall vote.

A disconnect between federal policy and community needs are at odds with Asian American safety concerns.

The attack on Saturday is being investigated as a racially-motivated hate crime, said investigators.

Kenneth Pilon allegedly slipped a noose with a racist note into a truck owned by a mixed-race couple, in addition to threatening Starbucks workers.

More than 780 antisemitic incidents were reported in New York and New Jersey alone, according to the ADL's annual report.

The "Empire" star is currently being held in a cell by himself, with constant monitoring by guards and cameras, per an approved request by his attorneys.

A video of the official and his wife making racist comments about Asian Americans went viral earlier this year.

Greg and Travis McMichael and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan already had been convicted of murder for Arbery's death and sentenced to life in prison.

Jews are per capita the victims of more hate crimes than any other group in the United States yet, these instances get among the least media coverage.

"An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on every New Yorker," Mayor Eric Adams said about the incidents.

Thirty-three hate crimes involving anti-Asian incidents are currently being prosecuted in Manhattan, District Attorney Alvin Bragg said this week.

The suspect, Shahid Hussain, was found allegedly wearing a fake Hitler mustache and doing a Nazi salute in a Facebook post.

The last update to the state's hate crime laws came in 2017 when protections were added to police officers who had hate crimes committed against them.

The driver said that he targeted the Jews in support of Jesus Christ. The town's mayor said the men could've been killed.

Prosecutors asked the U.S. District Court of Brunswick, Georgia, to approve plea agreements for two of the men convicted of murdering Arbery.

The FBI reported 8,263 single-bias criminal incidents motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability and gender in 2020.

The judge who will hear the hate crimes trial of the men convicted of killing Arbery granted the joint request to expand the jury pool to cover a larger swath of counties.

The family was on vacation at the time, but two of their pets were killed in the fire.

Friedmann pushed the door shut and spat in her face, court records said, "because he doesn't like Black people."

He ripped out the restaurant's computer terminals, smashed glassware, threw chairs and said, "We came to kill you! We will kill you!"

Spanish police are investigating the incident as a hate crime, said a spokesman at a press conference.

"Whatever the costs of speaking out, far greater was the cost of silence," this Muslim columnist says.

The alleged vandal reportedly used a kick scooter as his mode of transportation in the crimes and is facing 33 criminal charges in all.

"I targeted these people because I didn't like their political sign that they had in the window," Michael Frederick told a judge.

In his ruling, the judge spoke of "evidence" that lead him to believe the lawyers did speak to the brothers following the incident in 2019.

"These commonly discussed perceptions that the perpetrators of anti-Asian hate are mainly Black or African American are not accurate," Marita Etcubañez said.

A man in King County, Washington, was charged with two counts of a hate crime after he was accused of beating two women of color earlier in June. He posted bail after the first alleged attack and is accused of attacking a second less than a week later.

Burglary was the only crime that saw a decrease in the city in May.

Speaker Pelosi said on the House floor: "The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Bill will strengthen our defenses against any anti-AAPI violence, speeding our response to hate crime."

Juan Olaya, a 41-year-old Texas man has been convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison for his role in orchestrating a string of armed home invasion robberies targeting Asian Americans.