All posts tagged "Death Threats"

A husband and wife in Boston who allegedly hurled racial slurs and death threats, attacking a group of people dining at a restaurant, including a child, were facing civil rights violations, according to a NBC10 Boston report on Wednesday.

Arielle Raso, 37, and Gregory Raso, 39, who live next door to Tertulia's Cafe on Porter Street in East Boston, called police to make a noise complaint around 6:45 p.m. on Monday, NBC10 reported. Officers responded to the location and told the couple they could contact police if the noise continued after 11 p.m.

Police later received a call of a reported assault and returned to the cafe at 8:30 p.m. A victim told authorities that she and several other Latino customers were eating when the couple complained about the noise and confronted the group....

The woman behind the viral Coldplay kiss cam moment revealed the public shaming she has endured since she was caught on a Jumbotron at the concert in the arms of her married boss — and why she is no longer keeping quiet about it.

Kristin Cabot described the Jumbotron moment in July and months of "drowning in the vitriol of strangers" since a TikTok captured it, garnering 100 million views in just days, The New York Times reported Thursday. Cabot has been doxxed, had death threats and harassed over what happened.

"Five months after the TikTok bomb became the defining disaster of her life, she described in her first interview since the concert what it feels like to be a punchline and a target," The Times reported. "In online comments she has been called ... a homewrecker, a gold digger, a side piece — the usual tags for shaming women. Her appearance has been scrutinized, specific body parts evaluated and found insufficiently pretty. Some of the most famous people in the world — Whoopi Goldberg, Gwyneth Paltrow — and at least one furry green sports mascot, the Phillie Phanatic, have made her humiliation their material."...

Last October, every racist's favorite hero George Zimmerman retweeted a guy who applauded him for shooting Trayvon Martin, along with a photo of the unarmed boy's  dead body. While Zimmerman continued to gloat about the fact that he murdered Martin after profiling and following him in a gated community, calls to #BanGeorgeZimmerman began to gain some traction.

Since the 1970s, abortion providers have been the target for arson and bombings by the very people who claim they value life at the moment of conception. The latest example of their hypocritical ideology happened in Pullman, Washington, where a Planned Parenthood clinic was set ablaze at 3:30 AM on a Friday morning.

Men’s rights activists are raising money to save a conference scheduled for later this month after its venue received alleged death threats.

The New York City Police Department is investigating calls to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) threatening her life in response to proposed gun control legislation.