Hate Crime

A federal jury has found two men guilty of committing a hate crime for beating a black man outside a Nampa Wal-Mart last year. Michael Bullard and Richard Armstrong both face up to 20 years in prison when they are sentenced Oct. 19. Jennifer Hartpence was also accused in the hate crime, but the charges […]

Two young white men were arrested Friday for the beating of a Black teenager in Staten Island, N.Y., the New York Times reports.

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that while a huge Chicago crowd celebrated the election of the first black U.S. president, some white city police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama’s victory from home.

An interracial couple was brutally murdered in Califonia possibly due to race-based attacks. Sgt. Jan Pietrzak of Riverside, California and his wife Quianna Jenkins-Pietrzak were killed in their home by four Marine officers who worked under the young sergeant. The motive was initially leaked by Riverside police as robbery, but Pietrzak’s mother has a different take: […]

Daily News reports: A black Muslim teenager said he was beaten on Election Night by four white men furious that Barack Obama was elected the nation’s next President. Ali Kamara, 17, was walking home when four white men leaped from a gold car and started kicking him and smashing him with a baseball bat at […]