Posts Tagged ‘hate-bias’
The German chancellor condemns a firebomb attack on a Berlin synagogue and vows protection for Jews
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin on Wednesday, saying, “We will never accept when attacks are carried out against Jewish institutions.” Assailants threw two Molotov cocktails early Wednesday at the synagogue in the center of the German capital, police said, as antisemitic incidents in the country have…
Read MoreMan arrested in possible hate crime at Fresno bakery is also a suspect in synagogue vandalism
One person was arrested Tuesday in connection with a possible anti-Jewish hate crime at a Mediterranean bakery in Fresno and police say the suspect may have also been involved in vandalizing a synagogue. The vandalism comes as Israel wages war against Hamas after several terror attacks killed more than 1,000 people last week. Orlando Javier Ramirez, 30,…
Read MoreRecent antisemitic incident at Montgomery Co. high school raises concerns about hate across Maryland
There’s an increased need to take “concrete steps to confront antisemitism” in Montgomery County, Maryland, said Alan Ronkin, the regional director of the American Jewish Committee. The AJC released a statement following the report of students who, according to Montgomery Blair High School principal Renay Johnson, performed an “antisemitic salute” outside the school building during…
Read More17 Hells Angels, associates face charges after hate-attack in Ocean Beach: San Diego DA
Seventeen people have been indicted on various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased and attacked in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood on…
Read MoreEl Paso Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution in federal case
The gunman who killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history has agreed to pay more than $5.5 million in restitution to those impacted by the shooting. Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the attack, reached…
Read MoreWhite supremacist pleads guilty to threatening Pittsburgh synagogue shooting jurors and witnesses
White supremacist Hardy Lloyd could spend more than six years in federal prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to threatening jurors and witnesses in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial, federal officials said. Lloyd, 45, ran a prolific and hateful website that, for much of the spring and summer, took aim at the prosecutors, witnesses, victims and…
Read MoreMan charged with hate crime after vandalism at Wing Luke Museum
A man was charged Monday with a hate crime after he smashed the windows of the Wing Luke Museum, King County prosecutors say. According to the charges, Craig Milne, 76, used a sledgehammer to break the windows of the museum along Canton Alley South in Seattle on Thursday night, as dozens of patrons inside were…
Read MoreHammerskins: German branch of US-based neo-Nazi group banned
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser banned the extremist far-right group Hammerskins Deutschland as well as its regional branches and the affiliated group Crew 38, the ministry said on Tuesday. In the early hours of the morning, police officers searched the flats of 28 suspected members of the association in ten German states: Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Berlin,…
Read MoreAlabama Will Mark The 60Th Anniversary Of The 1963 Church Bombing That Killed Four Black Girls
Alabama on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of one of the most heinous attacks during the Civil Rights Movement, the 1963 bombing of a church that killed four Black girls in 1963. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court, will give the keynote address at…
Read MoreTexas Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime Charges
A Dallas man pleaded guilty today to federal hate crime charges arising out of a fatal shooting at a car repair shop. Anthony Paz Torres, 38, pleaded guilty to five federal hate crime counts for killing one individual and attempting to kill four others during a shooting at Omar’s Wheels and Tires in Dallas, Texas,…
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