Posts Tagged ‘hate-bias’
Reddit, YouTube must face lawsuits claiming they enabled Buffalo mass shooter
Reddit and Google’s YouTube were ordered by a New York state judge to face lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store. Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County Supreme Court said 25 plaintiffs could try…
Read MoreMan shatters door of Chicago Islamic center after threats, CPD investigating possible hate crime
A downtown Chicago Islamic center was vandalized Sunday night, worshipers and Chicago police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. Worshipers said a man had been making threats as members were going inside to pray about 8 p.m. Sunday night at 231 S. State St. in the Loop. Surveillance video from the mosque…
Read MoreFormer California Rideshare Driver Charged with Federal Hate Crime for Antisemitic Attack on Passenger
A Daly City, California, resident and former rideshare driver was arrested today for an Oct. 26, 2023, assault on a rider because he perceived the rider to be Jewish or Israeli. “The defendant, a rideshare driver, is charged with assaulting a rider because he thought the rider was Jewish or Israeli,” said Attorney General Merrick…
Read MoreNorway: Oslo terrorism trial for LGBTQ bar shooting begins
A trial began on Tuesday in Norway for a man accused of killing two people, and seriously injuring nine others, at an Oslo nightclub in 2022. Prosecutors said 44-year-old Zaniar Matapour fired 10 rounds with a machine gun and eight shots with a handgun into a crowd outside the “London Pub,” a popular gay bar.…
Read MoreEmailer threatened to bomb kid-friendly ‘Drag Queen Story Time’ at Minneapolis brewery, police say
An emailer sent messages threatening to bomb a northeast Minneapolis brewery during a weekend drag show as well as the home of the taproom’s founder and George Floyd Square, according to police. Police spokesman Aaron Rose said that “officers did not find explosives at any location” after conducting searches Sunday afternoon at Broken Clock Brewing…
Read MoreEugene man arrested, charged with federal hate crime for repeatedly defacing synagogue
A Eugene man has been charged with a federal hate crime for intentionally defacing a Eugene synagogue several times over a five-month period. Adam Edward Braun, 34, a resident of Eugene, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with intentionally defacing a synagogue because it was a place of religious worship for Jewish people. According…
Read MoreMan sentenced for plans to execute mass shooting at East Lansing synagogue
A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for violently threatening to kill Jewish people in June 2023, according to a news release. The FBI found evidence that showed Sean Pietila of Pickford Township “had identified a Jewish synagogue in East Lansing and a specific date in March 2024” to…
Read MoreNew evidence released after man sentenced for plotting mass shooting of women at Ohio college
New videos and photos have been released from the investigation into a self-identified Incel who later pleaded guilty to plotting a mass shooting to “slaughter” women at an Ohio university. Tres Genco, 24, of Hillsboro, was sentenced to 80 months in jail with a five-year supervised release for one count of attempting to commit a…
Read MoreMan who planned mass shooting of women at Ohio State is first ‘incel’ convicted of federal hate crime
Tres Genco wanted to make history, to be remembered for carrying out a mass shooting specifically targeting women at Ohio State University with the hopes of killing 3,000. Instead, he’ll be remembered for something else: the first “incel” to be convicted of federal hate crime charges. For those reasons, prosecutors are urging a federal judge…
Read MoreJudge rules killer of London, Ont., Muslim family committed terrorism, calling it a ‘textbook example’
The actions of a man who was convicted of murder and attempted murder after deliberately driving his truck into five members of the Afzaal family in London, Ont., on June 6, 2021, amounted to terrorism under Canadian law, a judge ruled Thursday “I have chosen not to name the offender nor recite the hateful hateful…
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