The three men who were found guilty last November of murdering Ahmaud Arbery are also guilty of federal hate crime charges, a jury ruled Tuesday.
The three defendants, Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan, pleaded not guilty to the charges, but the jury ultimately concluded that they violated Arbery’s civil rights and had a racial motivation in their pursuit of him.
A petition demanding Justin Trudeau be charged with inciting hatred has gone viral. The petition is directed at David Lametti, the Attorney General of Canada, and demands criminal charges be laid against the prime minister. The creator of the petition, an anonymous individual, states that Trudeau’s comments have left them fearing for their safety. The petition adds: “these egregious statements were made for the purpose of promoting hatred and violence against an identifiable group, specifically; individuals who have not received any or all Covid-19 vaccination doses.”
The three white Georgia men who chased and gunned down Ahmaud Arbery were each given life sentences Friday for what the dead jogger’s dad called a modern-day lynching “in broad daylight.”
Ex-cop Gregory McMichael, 66, his son Travis McMichael, 35, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, had potentially faced the death penalty after being found guilty in late November of the horrific caught-on-camera 2020 slaying.
In August 2020, the barrister Sarah Phillimore mused on Twitter: “my cat really loves Dreamies perhaps he’s a Methodist.” Me neither, but the point is what happened next. As an experiment, a fellow-Tweeter reported the gag to South Yorkshire Police, saying that it displayed anti-Methodist hatred: clearly Phillimore was stigmatising Methodists as “wandering pests that defecate in other people’s gardens”. The police knew just what to do. They decided that Phillimore had committed an NCHI: a “non-crime hate incident”.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) — Six people believed to have targeted Asian women around the Bay Area in multiple robberies have been arrested, the San Jose Police Department said.
Their investigation focused on over 70 reported incidents of robbery, burglary and theft that happened between Oct. 2020 and Sept. 2021, police said.
Each of the six suspects received hate crime enhancements with their charges, according to police.
But the real threat is from the far right…
Two California men are slapped with hate crime charges ‘after drunkenly vandalizing BLM mural’
… The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), which has compiled a report on anti-Christian hate crime in the continent, says the two main threats come from ‘secular intolerance’ and ‘Islamic oppression’.
… They said: ‘Islamic Oppression can mostly be seen in what we call “hotspot areas” of European cities and suburbs, where they impose unique legal and moral codes, which are often in contradiction to democratic principles and human rights.’
Woom Sing Tse arrived in America from Communist China almost 50 years ago with $100 to his name and worked his way up to owning a successful restaurant. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old Black career criminal executed him on Chicago’s streets. Maybe a rival paid for this hit, or maybe this was yet another example of the Black community’s incredible hostility to Asians.
An Indigenous social worker says he’s been unfairly branded as racist and harassed after being charged following an argument with a Muslim family outside a London big-box store.
David Lavoie, 57, was charged with assault last Monday , one day after he got into a heated exchange with a family in the parking lot of the Costco on Wellington Road.
Four black girls hit with ethnic intimidation charges in brutal attack against Asian students on Philadelphia train
The mother of one of four black teenage girls who was captured on video brutally assaulting a group of Asian students on a Philadelphia train turned her into police as all four were slapped with a slew of charges, including ethnic intimidation.
Shocking video captured the group of black teenage girls brutally throwing punches and screaming profanities at a group of Asian students this week.
The unidentified girls, who were between the ages of 13 and 16, were charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, criminal conspiracy, simple assault, disorderly conduct, and recklessly endangering another person, according to the district attorney’s office.
Toronto- Diversity is our strength
70-year-old man charged after anti-Asian hate-motivated assault in Markham: police
Parviz Almassi Gouran, a Markham resident, has since been charged with assault.
Two shocking attacks allegedly carried out by Muslims have not caused a storm. We need to talk about why.
Imagine if footage emerged showing a white man attacking people in a Muslim-populated part of town. Imagine if CCTV images showed the man punching a visibly Muslim elderly man in the face without provocation. Imagine if someone’s dashcam then captured this same bloke assaulting a Muslim child.
The Department of Justice and the FBI have a message for local police departments: start charging more white people with hate crimes or invite an investigation.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta told an assembly of FBI agents yesterday that they are now tasked with hounding police departments in their district if they do not register any “hate crimes.”
A woman was arrested Thursday for an alleged anti-Asian, hate-driven assault spree that left four people injured over the course of several months in Queens, police said.
Maricia Bell, 25, is accused of attacking three women — ages 75, 63, and 34 — and a 23-year-old man in four separate incidents in the borough beginning on May 23, according to police.
