All posts tagged "Hate Crimes"

Police arrested Frankie Rizzello, an associate of the neo-Nazi "2119 Blood and Soil Crew," which was the subject of a recent Raw Story investigation, and charged him with two felony counts related to antisemitic vandalism.

Rizzello, a 20-year-old resident of Chesterfield, Mo., was arrested on Sunday for “property damage motivated by discrimination.” He made his first appearance in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Monday, according to Missouri court records.

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Here we go, as the GOP knows its fortunes are going down the tubes, they have to resort to the usual bullsh*t lies, twisting the hearings on hate crimes legislation to suggest that Congressional Dems "support protecting pedophiles" and not troops. Of course the fact that members of the military have not been systematically singled out as a group targeted by hate crimes is irrelevant, but facts don't matter to them.

Religious Right leaders’ portrayal of the hate crimes bill as an attack on religious liberty is false; it reflects a larger political strategy to portray equality advocates as enemies of faith and freedom.

The Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced hate crimes legislation -- the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act -- a bill that has bipartisan support.