Posts Tagged ‘hate-bias’
White 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,…
Read MoreMedina County deputies investigating possible hate crimes against Amish
The Medina County Sheriff’s Office is investigating possible hate crimes against the Amish in Homerville. Vandals are allegedly targeting their homes and businesses at night, with one residence getting hit three times. Detective Sergeant Larry Covy says the sheriff’s office has received 14 calls between June and August of this year, reporting that people are…
Read MoreTrial of accused London terrorist Nathaniel Veltman begins Monday
Two years after a Muslim family was killed in an attack allegedly motivated by extremist views associated with white supremacy, the trial for the man accused in their murders is set to begin. Nathaniel Veltman, 22, is scheduled to appear in Windsor Superior Court Monday on four counts of terrorism-motivated first-degree murder and one count…
Read MoreFormer San Diego neo-Nazi extradited to Amsterdam after Anne Frank House incident
A neo-Nazi who once lived in San Diego County has been extradited to the Netherlands to face hate speech charges in connection with an antisemitic incident that took place at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam earlier this year. Forty-one-year-old Robert Wilson, a former Chula Vista resident, is accused of projecting an antisemitic message on…
Read MoreMaryland Man Pleads Guilty to Issuing Threats of Violence to an LGBTQI+ Advocacy Group
A Maryland man pleaded guilty in a U.S. District Court in Baltimore to a federal crime for using a telephone to threaten a group that advocates for LGBTQI+ people. According to court documents, on the evening of March 28, the victim organization received a threatening voicemail from Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship. The…
Read MoreWorshippers at Belfast mosque targeted by neo-Nazis feared New Zealand-style attack
Worshippers at a mosque targeted by neo-Nazis are living in fear of a far-right attack resembling the Christchurch massacre, the imam has said. Banners bearing the SS insignia, swastikas and the Totenkopf (SS Nazi skull) symbol were put on a lamp post outside the Iqraa Mosque in Dunmurry last week. They were discovered by a woman…
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