April 2012
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WatchJulie Ward, Texas Lesbian, Claims She Was Assaulted Outside Bar After Receiving Homophobic Threats
Posted: 04/25/2012 10:46 am
A Texas-based lesbian claims she was assaulted outside of a local bar, after her attackers threatened, “If you’re going to dress like a man, you better be able to hit like a man.”
As Statesman.com is reporting, Julie Ward, a 24-year-old Florence...
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Racist graffiti spray painted in Lady Lake...
2:08 p.m. EST, April 24, 2012|
By Ludmilla Lelis, Orlando Sentinel
LADY LAKE — Lake deputies are investigating a rash of racist graffiti in a Lady Lake neighborhood, where a home, a fence and several cars were spray painted with a racial slur and swastikas, sheriff’s officials said today.
The racist graffiti was spray painted on Pine Street sometime overnight between Friday and...
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Court: Non-Jewish man can sue over anti-Semitic...
04/23/12
A non-Jewish man can sue his former employers over anti-Semitic remarks made to him by his supervisors, an appeals court judge has decided.
Myron Cowher, 49, of Dingmans Ferry, Pa., says he was subjected to “the continual utterance of explicit slurs about Jews” for more than a year at Carson & Roberts Site Construction & Engineering until he left in May 2008, according to a New...
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Marine Killed in Possible Hate Crime
Police say suspect, also a Marine, used homophobic slur during Barracks Row stabbing
By John Riley Published on April 23, 2012,
A Marine from Camp Lejeune, N.C., was fatally stabbed in Southeast Washington early Saturday, April 21, following an altercation with another Marine who allegedly used a homophobic slur before attacking the victim.
According to a press release from the Metropolitan...
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Stepho Land: So yesterday on the bus I meet the... →
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So yesterday on the bus I meet the most racist ignorant white boy I have ever meet in a long time. As we were both getting off the bus at the same stop , him a little ahead of me, he was saying something about white power. I was instantly disgusted and wanted to tell him something about it. So…
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2 face federal hate crime charge in Ky. gay attack
04/13/12
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two Kentucky men have been charged with a federal hate crime in a beating attack on a gay man in an Appalachian park, marking the first time the law has been applied in a U.S. case alleging bias over a victim’s sexual orientation, authorities said.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington announced the charges against cousins David Jason Jenkins, 37, of...
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France: Bomb attack in Corsican capital partially...
Date:2012/04/10 - 13:58
RF(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A prayer room used by the Muslim community on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica was partially destroyed overnight by a bomb in an attack described by the Interior Ministry as ‘racist’. Racists slogans were also found on the wall of the building. An Interior Ministry statement said the minister Claude Gueant “wanted to make sure the...
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Marion Barry’s racist remarks
Published: April 5
The Washington Post
OVER THE YEARS, Marion Barry has said and done so many questionable things that the city whose politics he long dominated has become inured to his behavior. But his racist remarks this week about Asian Americans — and his oblivious response — are too ugly to ignore. On Tuesday Ward 8 Democrats looked past his failings to nominate him to a third...
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WatchRichard Cebull’s Racist Obama Email To Be Investigated By 9th Circuit Court
04/ 6/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/richard-cebull-obama-email_n_1408064.html
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Blige's 'racist' Burger King ad pulled off air →
A Burger King ad featuring R’n’B singer Mary J. Blige crooning about fried chicken has been pulled off air after it was accused of having racial undertones.
The fast food giant has been forced to apologise for the TV advertisement, which debuted earlier this week, claiming it was “unfinished”.
Mary J. Blige was repotedly paid $2 million for it and joined a host of other...
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London, Northern Ireland Police In Racism Inquiry
LONDON April 6, 2012, 11:06 am
LONDON (AP) — Police chiefs in London and Northern Ireland said Friday they had suspended officers from duty following a raft of new investigations into alleged racism, including some cases reported by police staff to their superiors.
London’s Metropolitan Police, Britain’s largest police force, said it was dealing with 10 new race-related complaints...
Iraqi woman's murder may not be hate crime
8:48 a.m. PDT, April 5, 2012
EL CAJON, Calif. — Newly released search warrant records show an Iraqi-American woman viciously beaten to death in her El Cajon home was apparently planning to divorce her husband and move to Texas, casting doubt on whether the slaying was a hate crime, as first suggested, it was reported Thursday.
Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five, was attacked...
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Downtown attack leads to bias crime charges
Second suspect sought in March 14 late-night incident
By Jim Redden
The Portland Tribune, Mar 20, 2012
Portland police arrested a man for an anti-gay bias crime and other criminal activity on March 14.
A second suspect is still being sought.
Paul Anthony Martinson, 39, was charged with third-degree assault, first-degree intimidation and first-degree criminal mischief. He was booked into the...
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US files hate crime charges in fatal rundown case
Associated Press – Thu, Mar 22, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three white men, including a teenager who pleaded guilty to murder and hate crime charges in Mississippi state court for running over a black man with his truck, were charged Thursday with federal hate crimes.
Dylan Butler, 20, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit a hate crime and to committing a hate crime....
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March 2012
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Memorial service underway for slain Iraqi-American...
SAN DIEGO | Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:46pm EDT
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Mourners gathered to pay respects on Tuesday for an Iraqi-American woman who died after being severely beaten in her California home by a killer who left a threatening note suggesting a hate crime, a Muslim rights group said.
Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mother of five, was found unconscious in the dining room...
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Cops Seek Teens Who Allegedly Set Fire To...
Posted: 5:41 PM Mar 27, 2012
(CBS)— A 13-year-old high school student suffered first-degree burns after two teens poured gasoline on him and set him on fire as he was walking home from school.
CBS affiliate KCTV reports the teenager was rushed to Children’s Mercy Hospital after the flames ignited. Police say his hair and face were burned.
The boy was walking home from East High...
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Was boy in K.C. fire a victims of his school's...
March 7, 2012
The boy raised his hand, eager to answer the question. “What would you know about it?” exclaimed the teacher dismissively. “You’re not our race.”
This was not dialogue from a Hollywood movie. According to a woman named Melissa Coon, it was what a teacher at East High School in Kansas City told her 13-year-old son, Allen, when he attempted to answer...
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WatchCCSU students to hold rally after hate crime reported on campus
Posted: Mar 13, 2012 6:36 AM EDT Updated: Mar 13, 2012 7:31 AM EDT
NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) -
No place for hate. That’s the message coming from students and staff at Central Connecticut State University.
The university is holding a rally Tuesday night after two students were targeted because of their sexual...
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