Police in Los Angeles have charged a man with two hate crimes after he allegedly shot two different Jewish men earlier this week, US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a news conference Friday.
(CNS) – The FBI’s Los Angeles field office launched a multi-lingual campaign Wednesday to raise awareness about hate crimes and encourage victims to report them. The FBI considers hate crimes to be criminal offenses against a person or property that is motivated at least in part “by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, […]
Social media posts claim a hate crime happened on Arenas Road early Friday morning. Concerned viewers also sent emails to our newsroom sharing the posts asking us to get to the bottom of this crime. Arenas is known as a place that celebrates the LGBTQ community and businesses cater to the diverse group. We […]
(CNN) — Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are set to cast a historic vote this week to designate lynching as a federal crime. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced last week that the House on Wednesday will take up HR 35, anti-lynching legislation introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois called the […]
(CNN) — The legal whiplash in the Jussie Smollett case keeps intensifying, with the former “Empire” actor facing new charges. Flanked by a massive entourage, Smollett entered a Chicago courthouse Monday for six new counts of making false reports to police for allegedly fabricating a hate crime. Smollett’s attorney Tina Glandian entered a plea of not guilty […]
An Oregon man faces hate crimes and attempted murder charges after prosecutors say he attacked a 70-year-old woman from India. James Lamb, 53, was staying at a motel in Redmond on New Year’s Eve when he broke into its office and attacked the owner, according to the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office. The victim and […]
The man accused of of using a machete to wound five people at a Hanukkah celebration now faces hate crime charges after authorities discovered anti-Semitic journal entries. Grafton Thomas had already pleaded not guilty to five counts of attempted murder after the Saturday night attack in Monsey, New York. But on Monday, federal authorities also […]
An Iowa woman who told police she ran over a teen because she “was a Mexican” has been charged with another attempted murder after police say she hit a 12-year-old boy on the same day. Nicole Poole Franklin was charged with attempted murder last week after admitting she intentionally ran over a 14-year-old girl with her car […]
