hate crime

An alleged assault on a biracial woman in Madison is being investigated as a hate crime after the 18-year-old told police she was burned by lighter fluid thrown at her and ignited by a white man, just a few blocks from protests at the state Capitol.

Police in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, are investigating after a noose was found hanging from a tree and racist flyers were taped to street signs and fences around town. Police said they received a report on June 17 about a noose hanging from a tree at a private association beach off Pump House Road. Two teenagers were seen in the area handling…

Police in Groton, Massachusetts, are investigating racist and homophobic graffiti, as well as a swastika, found over the weekend in several places.

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for a man accused of opening fire inside a Poway synagogue last year, killing a woman and injuring three others.

A white nationalist Norwegian who killed his stepsister and then stormed an Oslo mosque and opened fire, hitting no one, was found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 21 years in prison, the longest jail term under Norwegian law. Philip Manshaus, who had said in court that he regretted not having caused more damage, “has proven to be an extremely dangerous…

A video released this week shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car in 2017, and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the vehicle, an officer tries to use a stun gun on him. First obtained by The Guardian, the video released Monday shows Arbery refusing Glynn County police when they...

The attorney for a homeowner thrust into the spotlight of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting says a young black man filmed by a security camera walking through the unfinished home in December and February may have stopped there for a drink of water

Less than two weeks before Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men and fatally shot after purportedly entering a home under construction in Brunswick, Georgia, one of the suspects reported an encounter with a man at the same building site, according to NBC News.

The owner of a house under construction that played a role in the deadly shooting of a black man in Georgia says nothing was stolen from the house

Georgia’s attorney general has appointed a black district attorney from the Atlanta area to take over the case of a white father and son charged with killing a black man

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia black jogger slain in a pursuit by two white men armed with guns, called for their immediate arrests Thursday during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”

Police in Brookline, Massachusetts, and the Anti-Defamation League of New England are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who they believe is responsible for defacing the Chabad Center. Surveillance video from April 5 at 1:42 a.m. showed a man dressed in all black with sunglasses approaching the front door of the center on Harvard Street. The door…

The two Massachusetts women accused in a hate crime last month in East Boston made their appearance in court Monday.

The two Massachusetts women accused in a hate crime last month in East Boston faced a judge on Monday morning.

When the Asian passenger doesn’t move after getting yelled at by the enraged man, he gets sprayed with the air freshener Febreze in his direction for about 15 seconds

Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

A federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted the suspect in the Hanukkah stabbings in Rockland County of federal hate crime charges, a law enforcement source tells News 4 New York. Grafton Thomas, 37, was previously charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with allegedly obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in bodily injury in connection to the Dec. 28,…

Five people stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York. Four killed in a shooting at a Jersey City grocery store. A Brooklyn woman hit in the head as she walked with her child. The rash of anti-Semitic attacks gripping the New York-New Jersey area may feel like chilling coincidences, but statistics show they’re part of a wave of anti-Semitic violence that has...

The suspect in the Hanukkah stabbings in Rockland County was indicted Friday on six counts of attempted murder and multiple other charges, his lawyer confirms to News 4. Thirty-seven-year-old Grafton Thomas, the alleged attacker, is also facing three counts of assault, three counts of attempted assault and two counts of burglary. He faces up to 25 years in prison. “This…

The family of one of the stabbing victims of Saturday’s attack against the Jewish community in Rockland County gave an emotional update on his condition Thursday morning, saying that although the prognosis is grim they are praying for his recovery. They also urged the public to stand up against hate. Seventy-two-year-old Josef Neumann was one of five people stabbed...