hate crime

Protests in Spain to denounce a rise in hate crimes against LGBTQ people have gone ahead after a high-profile case that had grabbed attention across the country took an unexpected twist.

A Maine man is the target of what the state’s attorney general may end up investigating as a hate crime. Tahmoor Khan rushed outside his home in Bangor around 10 p.m. on Friday after a neighbor noticed people spray-painting racial slurs and profanity, including the n-word and “KKK,” all over his car, which was parked in his family’s driveway....

Racial slurs and profanity spray-painted on a man’s car in his Maine driveway are being investigated as a possible hate crime.

A former Marblehead police officer who allegedly carved a swastika into the paint of another officer’s personal car in July 2019 did not commit a hate crime, according to an administrative review. The officer, Timothy Tufts, was placed on administrative leave after the incident surfaced in 2020. He later resigned. An administrative probe of the incident found Tufts committed felony…

A judge has ruled that he won’t kick one of Jussie Smollett’s attorneys off his case but that the attorney won’t be allowed to question two key witnesses if the case goes to trial.

The man who killed two people in a shooting rampage in Winthrop, Massachusetts, last month wrote less than two days earlier that “Racism is healthy and natural” in a bigoted, hateful screed revealed by officials Wednesday.

Ramona Cooper, a 60-year-old Air Force veteran, will be laid to rest Tuesday after she was killed in a violent rampage just over a week ago in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Ramona Cooper, a 60-year-old Air Force veteran, was laid to rest Tuesday after she was killed in a violent rampage just over a week ago in Winthrop, Massachusetts. The community has continued to gather and remember the victims of the shooting, Cooper and David Green, a 58-year-old retired Massachusetts State Police officer, who was laid to rest Friday. Both were…

Residents of a secluded, Boston-area coastal community are trying to come to terms with the shooting of two Black residents in what authorities say appears to be a racially-motivated killing over the weekend. Officials in Winthrop, the community near Logan International Airport, held a vigil to honor the victims Thursday night in front of town hall. Family and friends of…

As residents continue to process Saturday’s deadly rampage in Winthrop, Massachusetts, new revelations about the status of the investigation are adding to the anxiety. Sources tell NBC10 Boston that a backpack connected to 28-year-old Nathan Allen was recovered Sunday morning not too far from where police say Allen stole a box truck Saturday afternoon minutes before the rampage started....

The man who killed two Black people in Winthrop, Massachusetts, in a brief shooting rampage “had very disturbing beliefs,” Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Monday, reiterating her belief that the attack was motivated by bigotry.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday. The shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. The gunman “walked by several other people…

Watch Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ news conference identifying the victims and gunman in the deadly Winthrop, Massachusetts, shooting, which she said may have been motivated by the white supremacy.

A Black Lives Matter sign was missing and what appeared to be a noose was found hanging on the sign in front of a Danvers church earlier this week, according to the Massachusetts town’s police department. A volunteer reported the possible hate crime at the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church on Locust Street around 8 p.m. Wednesday night, police said....

Police Saturday said a man was taken into custody, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshal Service, as one of the primary suspects who allegedly assaulted several Jewish men Tuesday outside a restaurant in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles.

Vermont’s lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives is voicing his strong support for a bill that will be voted on this week, calling for increased resources to respond to hate crimes against members of Asian communities. “I think it’s appalling to Vermonters to see any kind of discrimination,” Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said Monday at a press...

A bill is making its way through congress aimed at addressing a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans across the country has led to grave concern. “What’s hurtful is that people are targeting the elderly, who are the most vulnerable,” said Oanh Nguyen, who, along with longtime friend Julianna Lee, wanted to do something about it. “Just like a lot of other people, I felt really frustrated by the...

Police in Everett, Massachusetts, are investigating vandalism at a church with a largely Black congregation as a possible hate crime, authorities said. A large wooden cross that stood outside the Zion Bapist Church was uprooted and left in an adjacent yard, Bishop Robert G. Brown, senior pastor of the church, told The Boston Globe. The church’s office manager noticed...