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Report: Domestic extremists killed at least 42 in 2019
White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a report issued Wednesday by a group that fights anti-semitism. The Anti-Defamation League counted a total of 42 domestic...
Puerto Rico governor believes fatal shooting is hate crime
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The recent killing of a person believed to be a transgender woman that has shocked and angered many in Puerto Rico is likely a hate crime, Gov. Wanda Vázquez said Tuesday. While no one has been arrested, she said the investigation into the fatal shooting of a person...
Video of San Francisco street assault prompts police probe
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police said Monday that they are investigating a video of an elderly man being robbed and assaulted while collecting recyclables on a San Francisco street. The police department said it was seeking the public's help to identify the victim and witnesses to the racially charged attack. ...
Mother, daughter say they were attacked for speaking Spanish
BOSTON (AP) — Civil rights groups are asking police to pursue hate crime charges against two people accused of attacking a woman and her daughter who were speaking Spanish in a strongly Latino neighborhood in Boston. Lawyers for Civil Rights and other Boston-based groups said Monday that the 46-year-old...
Hero in Hanukkah attack declining $20K reward over Zionism
WEST NYACK, N.Y. (AP) — An Orthodox Jewish man credited as a hero for attacking a knife-wielding man who stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration north of New York City is refusing to take a $20,000 reward from established Jewish groups because he considers them Zionists, according to a rabbi who...
Man charged in truck stop stabbing sent to state hospital
ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado man charged in what Oregon prosecutors say was a hate crime stabbing has been found unfit for trial and will be sent to the Oregon State Hospital before his legal case can move forward. The Argus-Observer in Ontario reports Malheur County Circuit Court Judge Lung Hung...
More victims are added to Jefferson County lynching memorial
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Four new victims of racial violence are being added to the Jefferson County Memorial Project. The new names were discovered by students and others working with the project. Among them is Jim Hatter, who was dragged out of his home before bullets tore through his body in 1910. Hatter...
Police: Arrest made in Lincoln Jewish temple vandalism
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An arrest has been made in the vandalism earlier this year of a Jewish temple in Lincoln that has been investigated as a hate crime, police said. Police said in a news release that Noah Miller, 21, of Plattsmouth, was arrested Friday on suspicion of felony vandalism. The vandalism was...
Police investigating spray paint, vandalism at monastery
FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police are investigating vandalism on the grounds of a monastery that depicts upside-down crosses and the number “666.” Farmington police responded Wednesday to reports of several instances of spray paint on monastery grounds that left the patrons...
Utah man convicted of hate crimes for attack at tire shop
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A jury found a Utah man guilty of three hate crimes for shouting that he wanted to “kill Mexicans” before attacking three Latinos at a tire shop. Alan Dale Covington, 51, was convicted of attacking Jose Lopez and his 18-year-old son Luis with a 3-foot (0.9-meter) metal...
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