Hate Crimes

NEWARK, Del. — New Castle County police are investigating a hate crime in Newark where a couple found a white cross with a racial slur in the front yard of the home where they have lived for 22 years. Wayne Parson, who lives at the home with his wife, tells The News Journal  he is […]

JACKSON, Mississippi — The family of a black man who authorities say was run over by a white teenager in a truck is suing over the alleged hate crime. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Mississippi accuses seven white teenagers of setting out on June 26 in search of a black man to harass. A defendant in […]

BOONTON, N.J-Kashif Parvaiz admitted to orchestrating the killing of his wife, Nazish Noorani, with his mistress, Antoinette Stephen. Noorani and Parvaiz were both shot in the Boonton, New Jersey but police began to suspect he was involved after they discovered flaws in his story. Parvais’s original story had police suspicious of a hate crime after […]

A Black college student who suffered numerous injuries after an attack by 3 white men Sunday, says that he was targeted because he talked to a white girl. Christopher Phillips, 19, says he was confronted by Thomas Randich, 19, at a late-night house party in suburban West Chicago, then attacked as he walked away from […]

Video has been released of the killing of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was killed by a group of white men. One of the teens involved said “let’s go f**k with some n****,” before the incident began, according to police. The group then proceeded to beat Anderson and run him over […]

TRENTON, N.J. – A former Rutgers University freshman who prosecutors said used a webcam to spy on his roommate’s same-sex encounter was charged Wednesday with a hate crime and accused of deleting tweets and texts to cover up his tracks. Dharun Ravi, 19, was indicted in Middlesex County on 15 counts including bias intimidation and […]

NEW YORK-Krystal Callender, a 13-year-old girl was arrested and charged with a hate crime for ripping of the religious scarf and calling her a “terrorist,” and given no bail by a judge. Previously her companion, Osman Daramy a 12-year-old boy with a Muslim mother was also charged and held with out bail for the same […]

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Three friends had just finished their shifts at a McDonald’s when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a customer: They allegedly shaped a coat hanger into a swastika, placed it on a heated stove and branded the symbol on the arm of the mentally disabled Navajo man.

(Miami-CBS4) Tensions are arising in Miami after an African American male, Akil Larue Oliver was killed by Arab store owners in Miami. CBS 4 Miami reports: Demonstrators A demonstration was held outside the store Friday night, and those attending said Akil Larue Oliver, 34, was beaten to death because he was black. But Miami-Dade Police […]

WASHINGTON – The number of hate crime incidents and victims declined in 2009 compared with the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of more than 6,000 hate crime offenders, over six in 10 were white while nearly two in 10 were black. Nearly half of the crime incidents in 2009 were motivated by racial bias, […]

A doll was found hanging by a noose in front of an African American church in Washington D.C. The Washington Post reports: Laurel police were trying Monday to determine who hung a doll from a noose in front of an African American church on Laurel Park Drive late Saturday or early Sunday, authorities said. A […]

The Seattle Post Intelligencier is reporting that an Asian man and a Black man were charged with a hate crime for beating a white teen. Two men accused of beating a teenager and blaming it on white oppression were charged Tuesday with a hate crime and first-degree robbery. Prosecutors allege Ahmed Mohamed, who is black, […]