Hate crime

Van Rams Crowd At London Mosque In UK’s Latest Terror Attack

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, right, talk to faith leaders at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, after a man plowed his vehicle into a crowd of worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday. (Stefan Rousseaul/AP)
LONDON – Locals have told of the chaotic minutes after a van rammed into crowds at Finsbury Park mosque, as they pinned down a suspect shouting “I want to kill all Muslims” and “this is for London Bridge”, while others desperately tried to save the injured.

Kansas Bar Shooter Who Mistook Indian For Iranian Faces Hate Crime Charges

Adam Purinton, charged in the Olathe Austins bar shootings, appears in Division 8 at the Johnson County District Courthouse in Olathe, Kan. (David Eulitt/The Kansas City Star)
Adam Purinton, the suspect in a February shooting at an Olathe, Kansas, bar, now faces federal hate crime charges, the Justice Department announced Friday.
A grand jury indicted Purinton, 52, for shooting and killing Srinivas Kuchibhotla due to his race, color, religion, and national origin.
He was also charged with the attempted murder of Alok Madasani for the same reasons.

Member Of ‘Alt Reich’ Group Charged In Stabbing Death Of Black Student

People gather for a candlelight vigil at a bus shelter at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md, May 21, 2017, where visiting student was fatally stabbed. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
The FBI is investigating the stabbing death of a 23-year-old African-American student on the University of Maryland campus Saturday as a potential hate crime. Authorities said Sunday that the suspect, a white man, was a member of a Facebook group called “Alt-Reich: Nation.”

Sessions Chooses Latino Community Victimized By Hate To ‘Drum Up Fear Of Immigrant Violence’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to members of law enforcement Friday, April 28, 2017, in Central Islip, N.Y. Sessions discussed the street gang that’s gripping the suburban area. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
Before uttering a word of his speech on Salvadoran gang violence, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions already has opened up old wounds of a Long Island immigrant community still scarred by a 2008 hate crime.
Sessions has chosen the island’s federal courthouse, about 50 miles outside New York City Hall, as the site for his talk on MS-13.

1 Killed, 2 Hospitalized In Racially Motivated Kansas City Bar Shooting

Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kan. was arrested early Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in connection with a shooting at a bar in Olathe that left one person dead and and wounding two others. (Henry County (Mo.) Sheriff’s Office via AP)
OLATHE, Kan. (REPORT) — A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized.

Muslim Activists Raise $58k To Help Repair Vandalized Jewish Cemetery

People walk through toppled graves at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Mo., on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Authorities in Missouri are investigating after dozens of headstones were tipped over at the Jewish cemetery near St. Louis. (Robert Cohen /St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
Two American Muslim campaigners raised tens of thousands of dollars within hours of launching a campaign to help repair a vandalized Jewish graveyard.

City Fines Interracial Couple Over Racist Slur Left On Their Home


Stamford, Conn. (REPORT) — An interracial couple in Stamford, Connecticut, is being fined $100 a day by local government for failing to remove a racial slur that was spray painted on their garage door. Despite the fine, the common law husband and wife say the graffiti will remain until authorities “do their job” and find the person or persons responsible.