A Florida woman is facing hate crime charges for allegedly pepper-spraying a group of Asian women in New York last weekend and yelling racist remarks, WABC-TV reports. Police in Manhattan have arrested 47-year-old Madeline Barker on charges of assault as a hate crime, attempted assault as a hate crime and harassment as a hate crime …
A Florida couple and their son have been charged with hate crimes for allegedly beating a gay man so severely that he’s now permanently blind, WPEC-TV reports. On Tuesday, the Broward State Attorney’s Office charged 44-year-old Inna Makarenko (left), 43-year-old Yevhen Makarenko (right), and their 21-year-old son, Oleh Makarenko (middle). Each is charged with attempted …
A man with a lengthy criminal record is accused of viciously attacking a woman and uttering anti-Asian slurs at her in a New York City suburb, leaving her with severe injuries, CBS News reports. The suspect, 42-year-old Tammel Esco, is accused of punching the victim 125 times, kicking her seven times and spitting on her. …
A New York man accused of smearing his own feces onto the face of a subway rider has been released from jail under the new bail reform act. Suspect Frank Abrokwa walked out of jail on Wednesday without posting bail, after a judge allowed him to leave under supervised release, New York Post reports. Abrokwa …
The three men convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday morning. A jury found that father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because he was Black. Previously, the McMichaels accepted a plea …
A 19-year-old Illinois man has been charged with breaking into his neighbor’s home and trying to beat him to death with a pipe wrench because he’s gay. A police affidavit says that Ethan Dickerson told the unnamed 60-year-old victim, “You know why I have to do this,” when the man asked why he was being …
A Florida sheriff’s department has recommended a hate crimes enhancement against a 58-year-old man who allegedly attacked three teens at a gas station while shouting racial slurs at them. Richard Burnham, 58, has been charged with criminal mischief causing $1,000 damage and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon related to the incident …
A Connecticut man was arrested on Saturday, after a video surfaced allegedly showing him hurl a smoothie at an employee during a racist, violent trade. The Fairfield Police Department said in a Facebook post that James Iannazzo, 48, was charged following an incident at Robeks. After making a purchase without incident, Iannazzo reportedly returned to …
The Justice Department has reportedly closed an investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, finding that it could not prove Till’s accuser lied to federal investigators about the teen’s 1955 slaying in Mississippi. A federal investigation was opened into the 14-year-old’s slaying in July 2018, a year after Professor Timothy Tyson released “The Blood of …
A Florida woman is facing backlash after allegedly calling a stranger and her children hateful names. NBC 2 reports that Patricia Schmidt was listed as an Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Specialist at Lely Elementary School in Collier. She’s also been identified as the woman who called a mother and her young child offensive, racist names. …
“I’m not this Black man traipsing across the land attacking white folk,” Booker said. “The issue is me and what I look like.”
