Hate Crime - Page 79

April 2, 2020

Texas man accused of stabbing Asian family over coronavirus could face FBI hate crime charge

A man who allegedly tried to kill an Asian family inside a Texas supermarket last month to prevent them from spreading the coronavirus could be charged by the FBI for a hate crime, according to reports.

March 5, 2020

Video shows subway rider spraying Febreze at fellow passenger in possible hate crime

Cops are investigating an alarming video of a man spraying Febreze at an Asian subway straphanger in an incident being investigated as a coronavirus-related hate crime, authorities said Thursday.

February 6, 2020

El Paso Walmart massacre suspect indicted on 90 counts including federal hate crimes

The man who allegedly opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, this past August, killing 22 people and injuring 24 others, was handed a 90-count indictment charging him with federal hate crimes Thursday. 

January 28, 2020

Swastikas, 'f--- Jews' graffiti found scrawled inside NYC apartment building amid spike in anti-Semitism

Hours before New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared "we need to stamp [anti-Semitism] out, once and for all," authorities were investigating another case of a possible anti-Semitic hate crime.

January 24, 2020

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Auschwitz mass murders must teach world to reject anti-Semitism and other hatred

I write from Jerusalem, where I attended a ceremony Thursday at which Vice President Mike Pence and other international leaders spoke to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the hellish Nazi death camp where at least 1.1 million people – about 1 million of them Jews – were murdered.

January 23, 2020

'Crying Nazi' Chris Cantwell pleads not guilty, accused of threatening rape on message app

Christopher Cantwell, a New Hampshire white nationalist who became infamous during the 2017 Charlottesville, Va., riots and has been dubbed 'the crying Nazi,' pleaded not guilty Thursday to extortion and interstate threat charges for allegedly saying he would rape the wife of a foe.

January 13, 2020

Hanukkah stabbing suspect pleads not guilty to hate crimes, says he's on Prozac

The man accused of stabbing five people in a brutal machete attack at the home of a Hasidic rabbi during Hanukkah celebrations pleaded not guilty Monday to 10 federal hate-crime charges. 

January 7, 2020

Oregon man charged with attempted murder, hate crimes in attack on 70-year-old immigrant

A man was charged with attempted murder and hate crimes after breaking into a motel office and attacking a 70-year-old immigrant from India who owns the business with her husband, also an immigrant, prosecutors said Tuesday.

January 1, 2020

Menorah in New Jersey toppled in possible bias-crime incident: officials

Authorities in New Jersey are offering a reward for information after a menorah was toppled last week during Hanukkah in a possible criminal mischief incident.

December 30, 2019

Elizabeth Pipko: American Jews are under attack – How much worse will anti-Semitism get?

I am typing with tears in my eyes, thinking about the anti-Semitic stabbing attack that wounded five Jews at a Hasidic rabbi’s home Saturday night during a Hanukkah party. The vicious assault in a heavily Jewish New York City suburb is unmistakable evidence of a painful new reality: the Jewish people – my people – are under attack in America.