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British police treat attacks on goths as ‘hate crimes’
A British police force on Thursday began recording attacks on goths and punks as “hate crimes” similar to those suffered by people targeted because of their race, religion or sexual orientation. Police in Manchester, northwest England, said the new policy would allow them to better protect goths, easily identified on…
Mississippi law stymies hate crime investigation for gay mayoral candidate’s murder
The family of Mississippi’s first gay mayoral candidate, Marco McMillian, is calling on authorities to investigate his murder as a hate crime after acquiring new information. According to The Jackson Clarion-Ledger, McMillian’s family said in a statement Sunday night that it has learned through photographs and discussions with Coahoma County…
Five charged with hate crimes for kidnapping mentally disabled people
US authorities on Wednesday announced hate crime charges against a gang accused of imprisoning mentally disabled people in a decade-long scheme to steal their Social Security benefits. The charges marked the first time authorities have applied a federal hate crime statute signed by President Barack Obama to a case involving…
Missouri Republican: No such thing as a hate crime
Missouri State Rep. Paul Curtman (R) on Saturday denied that crimes based on an the victim’s race, religion, national origin, ethnic identification, gender, or sexual orientation were any different than other crimes. Curtman’s remarks were recorded by the group Progress Missouri at the Forum on Missouri Economic Prosperity. During his…
Amish sect found guilty of hate crimes in beard cutting
CLEVELAND, Ohio — An Amish bishop and 15 followers were convicted of hate crime charges in Ohio Thursday for a series of beard-cutting attacks against those they deemed had strayed from the faith. Federal prosecutors argued that Samuel Mullet — who considered himself a god above the law — unleashed…
Clarification: New information in the Shaima Alawadi case.
When I first wrote about the bloody murder of Shaima Alawadi in her California home, I hedged my bets a little, and then called it a hate crime: …leaving room for the possibility of new information, [I’m] not the El Cajon police, and I can go ahead and make the leap of…
Jewish man arrested for swastikas, anti-Semitic calls
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Jewish man was under arrest on hate-crime charges on Monday, accused of making anti-Semitic telephone calls to his mother and other elderly women and putting swastikas on apartment doors, police said. A family business dispute drove David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, who is Jewish, to…
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