Hate Crimes

Trump Denounces Islamophobic Attack, Critics Say Too Little, Too Late

Coco Douglas, 8, leaves a sign she painted at a memorial two bystanders who were stabbed to death Friday while trying to stop a man yelling anti-Muslim slurs and acting aggressively toward two young women. (AP/Gillian Flaccus)
President Donald Trump on Monday condemned the fatal stabbings of two Good Samaritans, who tried to stop a man from harassing a pair of women who appeared to be Muslim.
A third man who also came to the aid of the women suffered serious wounds in the attack on a Portland commuter train on Friday, hours before the start of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month.

Dallas Mega March Rally Pushes For Unity, Immigration Reform

DALLAS  — Thousands of people marched and rallied in downtown Dallas on Sunday to call for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system and end to what organizers said is an aggressive deportation policy.
Organizers who called Sunday’s event the “Dallas Mega March” said President Donald Trump’s executive orders restricting travel from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East are discriminatory. They also want an end to hate crimes and hate speech they contend have proliferated since the November presidential election.

Senators Urge Trump Administration To Investigate Wave Of Attacks As Hate Crimes

Sunaina Dumala grieves near the body of her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in a racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at their residence in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled “get out of my country” at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin’s Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Young White Men Are Being Radicalized. It’s Time To Talk About It

Richard Spencer, the founder of the so-called “alt-right” movement, an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. (AP Photo)
White supremacy swept to power the day Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. His most ardent supporters championed him across the world. For them, Trump signaled the resurgence of white male dominance and they weren’t ashamed to celebrate it.

FBI Thwarts Attack By South Carolina White Supremacist Planning “Dylann Roof-Type” Act

This police booking photo released Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 by the Horry County Police Department in Conway, S.C., shows Benjamin McDowell. (Horry County Sheriff’s Office via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A white supremacist with felony convictions in South Carolina bought a gun from an undercover FBI agent, telling the agent he planned an attack in “the spirit of Dylann Roof,” authorities said Thursday.