Latest Hate crimes News
Minnesota man sentenced to 30 years for shooting death of transgender woman
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man has been sentenced to a 30-year prison term for killing a transgender woman last year in Minneapolis. Damarean Bible, 25, was found guilty of second-degree murder in August and sentenced Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. Bible...
2 charged with soliciting attacks on minorities, officials and infrastructure on Telegram
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people who prosecutors say were motivated by white supremacist ideology have been arrested on charges that they used the social media messaging app Telegram to encourage hate crimes and acts of violence against minorities, government officials and critical infrastructure in...
Investigators say Wisconsin inmate killed his cellmate for being Black and gay
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An inmate doing time at a maximum security prison in Wisconsin for trying to kill his mother strangled his cellmate for being Black and gay, investigators said. Prosecutors charged Jackson Vogel, 24, on Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide with hate...
Massachusetts driver who repeatedly hit an Asian American man gets 18 months in prison
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car. John Sullivan, a white man in his late 70s, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in April to a...
Man charged with assault on 2 Jewish students on University of Pittsburgh campus
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man was charged with felony aggravated assault after an alleged glass bottle attack on two Jewish students on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, a city newspaper reported Saturday. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the 52-year-old suspect was...
NYC parks worker charged with murder as a hate crime in killing of migrant
NEW YORK (AP) — A parks worker for New York City accused of fatally shooting a man at a migrant encampment in Brooklyn has been indicted on charges including murder as a hate crime, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Authorities allege Elijah Mitchell, 23, of Queens, was upset that...
NYC man charged with hate crime after police say he yelled 'Free Palestine' and stabbed a Jewish man
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been arrested and charged with a hate crime after police say he yelled “Free Palestine” and then stabbed a Jewish man near a synagogue over the weekend. Police say the attack happened around 2 a.m. on Saturday in the Crown Heights...
Today in History: August 12, Charlottesville car attack
Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2024. There are 141 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 12, 2017, a driver sped into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing...
Florida man gets over 3 years in prison for attacking a Muslim mail carrier and grabbing her hijab
MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida man was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in federal prison for attacking a Muslim U.S. Postal Service worker and trying to pull off her hijab. Kenneth Pinkney, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced in Miami federal court, according to court...
Nevada man accused of hate crime acknowledged in police interview that he referenced 'hanging tree'
RENO, Nevada (AP) — A Nevada man charged with a hate crime acknowledged he referenced a “hanging tree” during a verbal altercation with a Black man who was gathering signatures for a proposed ballot measure southeast of Reno, according to a criminal complaint made public Thursday. ...
