February 2012
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WatchShepherdsville Police investigate apparent hate crime
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 10:20 PM EST
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Police in Bullitt County are investigating after an apparent hate crime at a convenience store.
Police believe the suspects broke into Jacob’s Smoke Shop sometime overnight Sunday, but it’s not what they took that has some people nearby so upset.
It’s a...
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WatchAlbino teen fights bullies with rap lyrics
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 4:12 PM EST
MEMPHIS, TN -
(WMC-TV) - A Memphis teenager has been the victim of discrimination, but it’s not because of his skin color. Instead, it’s because he lacks skin color completely.
Albinos are often the target of bullies and misunderstanding, but this teenager is fighting back against his skin stigma...
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KKK spray painted in Cedar Rapids neighborhood
Posted: Feb 21, 2012 2:50 PM EST
Written by Jenn Jarvis, Internet Director
CEDAR RAPIDS (KWWL) -
Vehicles, mailboxes and garage doors in the Stoney Point neighborhood of Cedar Rapids have been spray painted with the letters “KKK” over the last few days.
Police have responded to at least four calls in the past three days.
One of the victims says she wonders if the people...
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Wild prospect Justin Fontaine suspended for using...
By Harrison Mooney | Puck Daddy – 02/14/12
Minnesota Wild prospect Justin Fontaine has fit in nicely with the team’s AHL affiliate Houston Aeros in his rookie season, posting 34 points in 49 games, good for second in team scoring. He’s also fit in well off the ice — three weeks ago, he joined a large contingent of Wild prospects that are currently on Twitter, interacting with...
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Royal Marine fined for racist attack on Indian...
Feb 3 2012
A MARINE just back from Afghanistan headbutted an Indian tourist outside a nightclub after calling him “a f***ing P***”.
Drunken thug Euan Urquhart whipped up his T-shirt and flashed his Commando tattoo before launching the assault.
He burst Neelabh Sagar’s nose and sent him flying 10 feet – then told police his victim “deserved it”.
Yesterday, Urquhart, 24, was fined £750 at...
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FBI joins arson investigation Barbara Hicks...
By Richard Meek The Daily News Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:41 AM CST
The arson investigation into the burning of a car and attempted burning of a home has expanded to include the FBI, fire officials said. Donald Carter, Chief of Investigations for the state fire marshal’s office, confirmed late Tuesday afternoon that the FBI, along with several other agencies, is...
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WatchPolice investigate racially motivated crime at UW Parkside
by Laura Matovina
Story Created: Feb 3, 2012 CST
KENOSHA — CBS 58 is learning new and disturbing information about a hate crime investigation at a local college. The alleged racially motivated crime happened at UW Parkside Wednesday. According to reports, a student found a noose made of rubber bands in the common area of a dorm....
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Afghan woman killed, apparently for bearing girl
Published January 30, 2012
| Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan woman has been strangled death, apparently by her husband, who was upset that she gave birth to a second daughter rather than the son he had hoped for, police said Monday. It was the latest in a series of grisly examples of subjugation of women that have made headlines in Afghanistan in the past few months —...
January 2012
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WatchBrother Rice Student Threatened with Noose, Victim of Hate Crime
Updated: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 4:03 PM CST Published : Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012, 9:04 PM CST
By Craig Wall, FOX Chicago News
Chicago - Three youths have been charged with a hate crime in connection with an incident in which a black Brother Rice student says he was threatened with a noose by a fellow student and two other teens.
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3 convicted of anti-gay hate crime in Britain
Associated Press – Fri, Jan 20, 2012
LONDON (AP) — Three men were convicted Friday of distributing anti-gay leaflets, and prosecutors called it a landmark case regarding the prosecution of hate crimes regarding sexual orientation.
A jury found the men to have distributed leaflets calling for homosexuals to face the death penalty. Two others were acquitted of the same charge.
“Everyone...
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Child, 8, hurt in racist brick attack in Dundonald
21 January 2012
An eight-year-old child has been injured in a racist attack in Dundonald in east Belfast.
Promise Awoyelu was asleep at about 05:30 GMT on Saturday when she was hit on the head by a brick thrown through her bedroom window at Brooklands Drive.
Her injuries are not thought to be life threatening. Two other windows in the house were broken.
It is the second attack on the house...
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Gay "honor killing" movie shakes Turkey up
01/20/12
By Ece Toksabay | Reuters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - On a hot summer’s day in 2008, 26-year-old physics student Ahmet Yildiz was shot dead when he popped out from his Istanbul apartment to buy ice cream.
The main suspect in the killing, a fugitive still wanted by Turkish police, is Yildiz’s father, who could not accept that his only son was in a homosexual relationship.
The...
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WatchMan arrested, charged with hate crime
Posted: 01/12/12 at 6:30 am EST
HIALEAH, Fla. (WSVN) — A man once thought to be a victim has been arrested and charged with a hate crime.
On Jan. 2, Luis Alberto Gonzalez told Hialeah Police he left a local pizza restaurant and was robbed by two African American males and was then shot in the head. After being shot, Gonzalez then said he got in his...
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Alleged neo-Nazi attack in B.C. caught on video
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/05/bc-alleged-racist-beating-video.html
CBC News has released a video showing a black Vancouver man being beaten by an alleged white supremacist who has since been charged in connection with a string of apparently racially motivated attacks.
A CBC News videographer happened upon an apparent road-rage incident while on duty on...
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Italian kills two Africans in apparent racist...
Tue, Dec 13, 2011
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian man killed two African street sellers and wounded three others in an apparent racist shooting rampage in the heart of Florence on Tuesday before committing suicide, police said.
Gianluca Casseri, 50, who Italian officials said was a right-wing extremist, parked his car in the crowded Dalmazia square at lunch time, got out and started...
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WatchHate crime alleged in chase and fatal shooting
Posted: Jan 09, 2012 11:13 PM EST Updated: Jan 09, 2012 11:43 PM EST
By Roslyn Anderson
SALLIS, MS (WLBT) -
A small Attala County town is questioning whether a weekend chase and fatal shooting should be investigated as a Hate Crime.
Sheriff’s department officials met with residents are asking for justice in the murder of Cedric...
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December 2011
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Italian kills two Africans in apparent racist...
By Silvia Ognibene | Reuters – Tue, Dec 13, 2011
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian man killed two African street sellers and wounded three others in an apparent racist shooting rampage in the heart of Florence on Tuesday before committing suicide, police said.
Gianluca Casseri, 50, who Italian officials said was a right-wing extremist, parked his car in the crowded Dalmazia square at...
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Kansas tea party illustration draws racism claims
AP – 17 hrs ago
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a civil rights group alleges.
Hutchinson-based Patriot Freedom Alliance says on its website that like the president, the skunk is “half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks.”
The Hutchinson News...
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Racist chant leads to suspension for entire girls...
From Larry Brown Sports:
The entire girls basketball team at Kenmore East High School in the Buffalo (NY) area has been suspended for using a racially offensive pregame chant, The Buffalo News reports.
Before games, the players would psych themselves up by holding hands and saying “One, two, three [N-word].”
Apparently it’s a tradition that has been ongoing for years, yet...
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'White supremacists' charged in Vancouver hate...
CBC – Fri, 9 Dec, 2011
Two B.C. men who police say belong to an international white supremacist group are facing charges for a series of alleged hate crimes, including lighting a sleeping Filipino man on fire.
RCMP said Robertson de Chazal and Shawn MacDonald have been charged in connection with four attacks, which occurred around Metro Vancouver between 2008 and 2010.
In one of the...
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Police investigate 'hate' paper tossed on some...
Friday - 12/9/2011, 5:36pm ET
Michelle Basch, wtop.com
WASHINGTON — Something tossed on front lawns and porches in our region in recent days is causing concern.
It’s a paper, printed on both sides with a jumble of articles, tables and official-looking orders.
The paper has hateful things to say about American Jews and Israel.
One section claims Jews are plotting to kill...
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Fired Muslim Employees Sue Hertz for Religious...
Written by Don Byrd Thursday, 08 December 2011
Muslim drivers working for Hertz at the Seattle Airport were fired back in October over a dispute regarding their use of break time for prayer. The group has now filed suit claiming religious discrimination.
The lawsuit filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court claims Hertz Corp. terminated them after they refused to clock out for prayers....
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WatchMacy’s Fires Worker for Transgender Discrimination
Natalie Johnson told a transgender customer to use the men’s fitting room.
01:20 | 12/08/2011
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Racist attack in Lydney
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Police are investigating a racist attack in Lydney.
The incident happened at about 8pm yesterday in Chillies, in Hill Street.
A woman entered the premises and was racially abusive towards the 32-year-old victim before slapping him and walking out. There was a man with the woman, although he played no part in the attack or abuse.
The victim was left shaken and...
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Man arrested for stabbing UI faculty member at...
Wed, 12/07/2011 - 1:54pm | The News-Gazette
CHAMPAIGN - A Fithian man has been arrested for attempted murder and a hate crime for allegedly stabbing a man at the Illinois Terminal Wednesday morning.
The victim is a UI law faculty member.
A Champaign police department release said officers were sent to a report of a stabbing at the building at 45 E. University Avenue at 5:44 a.m.
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NYPD investigating officers’ racist posts
Published: Dec. 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) — The New York City Police Department says it will investigate a report officers made racist and inflammatory comments on Facebook about West Indian parade-goers.
The New York Times reports that in the postings, people participating in...