Crime

Rayme McCoy fell victim to a racist verbal attack by Kevin Williamson who then punched her more than 10 times at a Jacksonville gas station. Her lawyers want him to face hate charges.

Race Matters

42-year-old Christine Garner and 49-year-old Jeremy Jones were arrested and charged with murder the morning after a March 15 incident they're accused of committing a hate crime in killing Justin Peoples, 30, at a Chevron gas station in Tracy, California. They've been charged with a hate crime.

Crime

Miya "Soho Karen" Ponsetto has struck a plea deal that will allow her to avoid jail time for attacking Keyon Harrold Jr. as long as she can “live a law-abiding life” for the next two years.

Jenny Leigh Ennamorati admitted to verbally and physically attacking a 46-year-old Latino woman and her 15-year-old daughter identified by their last name, Vasquez, for speaking Spanish. A judge in East Boston Municipal Court sentenced her to 15 months probation.

Civil Rights & Social Justice

According to the Justice Department, Donner faces a $250,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

News

Mississippi man D'Monterrio Gibson said he was making deliveries in Brookhaven while wearing his FedEx uniform when a white man in a pickup truck began following him and honking his horn and another fired shots into his vehicle.

Race Matters

58-year-old Richard Burnham was charged with multiple hate crimes after allegedly attacking Black high school students in Volusia County, Florida, by calling them racial slurs and using a pipe to smash their car window.

Crime

William Cunningham, a racist white man in Washington state, is facing a felony hate crime charge after a video shows he used racial slurs and threatened to kill a Black student at Monroe High School who was in a physical altercation with Cunningham's allegedly racist daughter and her boyfriend.

At the time, Ole Hougen was on probation from another racially motivated attack that he committed in 2018 involving a different Black male victim. The DOJ noted that this was Hougen's fourth attack against a Black person in the last seven years.

The trial for Jussie Smollett is set to start as jury selection begins Monday. The two men he allegedly paid to pose as his attackers will play an important role for prosecutors in the case.

Minnesota Police are investigating students at Prior Lake High School in Savage, Minnesota after a racist video about a 14-year-old black girl went viral on social media.

Stockton California Police are investigating a possible hate crime after a black man was shot seven times by a white man he did not know after a traffic incident turned violent.