hate crime
Illinois man pleads not guilty to hate crime and murder charges in attack on Muslim mother and son
By Sophia Tareen — October 31, 2023
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on Oct. 14.
Illinois boy killed in alleged hate crime remembered as kind, playful as suspect appears in court
By Melissa Perez Winder, Claire Savage, and Sophia Tareen — October 18, 2023
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (AP) — The child, who recently celebrated a birthday, was also seen as another innocent casualty in the escalating war.
Mourners in heavily Palestinian Chicago suburb remember Muslim boy killed as kind, energetic
By Claire Savage, Sophia Tareen, and Melissa Perez Winder — October 16, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) — Wadea Al-Fayoume had just turned 6, his paternal uncle said.
Pastor urges sadness, not rage, after white shooter kills 3 Black people in Florida
By Russ Bynum and Aaron Morrison — August 29, 2023
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The latest in a long history of American racist killings was at the forefront of Sunday services at St. Paul AME Church, about 3 miles from the crime scene.
FBI warns of ‘broad’ threat to synagogues in New Jersey
By Michael Balsamo and Ryan Kryska — November 4, 2022
(RNS) — The FBI’s Newark office released a statement urging synagogues to “take all security precautions to protect your community and facility," but wouldn't say anything about who made the threat or why.
Second attack on Gandhi statue will be investigated as a hate crime, NYPD says
By Richa Karmarkar — August 19, 2022
NEW YORK (RNS) — In the second incident of vandalism in less than two weeks, a Gandhi statue outside of Shri Tulsi Mandir was toppled and defaced in what police are now investigating as a targeted hate crime.
Queens community condemns attack on Gandhi statue as anti-Hindu vandalism
By Richa Karmarkar — August 9, 2022
NEW YORK (RNS) — Leaders from the diverse Richmond Hill community in New York’s Queens borough came together on Tuesday to condemn an act of vandalism against a statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside of the Shri Tulsi Mandir Hindu temple.
Albuquerque killings send fear through Islamic communities
By Mariam Fam and Stefanie Dazio — August 8, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Earlier this week, police confirmed that local detectives and federal law enforcement officers were looking for possible ties among the separate crimes.
The Atlanta spa shooting and the hate crime gap
By Simran Jeet Singh — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — Those targeted by hate see evidence of bias that law enforcement doesn't see.
Report: Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic ‘Zoom bombing’
By Michael Kunzelman — April 27, 2021
(AP) — The Anti-Defamation League counted 196 cases of antisemitic "Zoom bombing" attacks in the U.S. last year.
US Sikh community traumatized by yet another mass shooting
By Casey Smith and Luis Andres Henao — April 21, 2021
(RNS)— The motive for last week's rampage is still unclear, but Sikh community leaders believe more must be done to combat the bigotry and violence they have suffered for decades.
Hate crime charge added for Colorado man accused of running over Sikh store owner
By Aysha Khan — July 22, 2020
(RNS) — Prosecutors have added a hate crime charge against a man accused of striking a 61-year-old Sikh man with his car and leaving him for dead almost three months ago.
Federal hate crime charge in Missouri Islamic center fire
By Jim Salter — May 13, 2020
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nicholas J. Proffitt has been indicted in an April fire that destroyed the Cape Girardeau Islamic Center, the same center he defaced more than a decade earlier.
Before another shooting, let’s do these necessary things to stop hate
By Pardeep Kaleka — October 28, 2019
(RNS) — Bipartisan support of common-sense legislation such as the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act will equip law enforcement to identify and track hate incidents more effectively.
Attack on Hindu priest in New York leads to call for hate crime investigation
By Aysha Khan — July 22, 2019
(RNS) — Faith leaders are calling on New York City police to launch a hate crime investigation into a violent attack on a Hindu priest near his temple in Queens.
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