A Texas man is facing criminal charges after video reportedly surfaced of him punching a black woman amid a road rage dispute on Thursday. The Dallas Morning News reported that Austin Shuffield, 30, was charged with assault causing bodily injury and interference with an emergency call for the 4:30 a.m. incident in Deep Ellum. Police said Shuffield …
The victim said he thought the prison sentence was too long. “Everyone makes mistakes.”
The resident said he would kill anything “darker than a brown paper bag”
Police in Texas announced the arrests of four suspects in last month’s beating of a gay couple—and said that they’re currently treating the case as a hate crime. The Austin American-Statesman reported that four men—Frank Macias, 22; Miguel Macias, 20; Quinn O’Connor, 21; and Kolby Monnell—were arrested Tuesday in connection with the January 19 attack on Spencer Deehring …
“We have no reason to think that he’s not being genuine,” Chicago police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson said of Smollett Friday
Authorities in Chicago say an actor was attacked in what is initially being investigated as a “possible hate crime.” As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jussie Smollett was reportedly attacked early Tuesday morning while exiting a Subway restaurant in Chicago. In addition to the homophobic and racist taunts allegedly shouted at the 35-year-old “Empire” star, earlier reports …
Police in Oregon have arrested a woman who was reportedly filmed harassing a black couple with racial slurs—all while brandishing a knife. Speaking with The Oregonian, Emora Roberson, 20, said she and her family stopped at a strip mall in McMinnville, pulling in next to a pickup truck whose driver quickly yelled racial slurs at them. Roberson …
An ex-Pennsylvania college student accused of leaving racist graffiti for his black roommate in their dorm room and poisoning him with a toxic metal is reportedly being investigated for a second poisoning. Per The Lehigh Morning Call, District Attorney John Morganelli announced Thursday that they’re investigating whether Yukai Yang, 22, poisoned another Lehigh University student. Morganelli declined …
An ex-Pennsylvania college student, accused earlier this year of leaving racist graffiti for his black roommate in their dorm room, was arrested for allegedly poisoning him with a toxic metal. Yukai Yang, 22, a chemistry major at Lehigh University, turned himself in Thursday and was charged with attempted murder. Authorities believe Yang slipped thallium—an odorless, colorless, …
A British couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler was sentenced to prison for being members of a neo-Nazi group banned under anti-terrorism laws. Per The Guardian, Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, were sentenced in a Birmingham court to prison for six-and-a-half years and five years, respectively. Along with two others, the …
Authorities in Pennsylvania are investigating after anti-Semitic and racist pamphlets were reportedly found around Pittsburgh neighborhoods. Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh’s CEO, Jeff Finklestein, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he reviewed the fliers on Facebook and that they contained “recruitment information for the Ku Klux Klan.” Though it’s unclear where exactly the fliers were found, …
A Jewish nurse who treated the man accused of killing 11 synagogue-goers, aged 54 to 97, took to social media to reflect on his experience with the suspected mass shooter. Ari Mahler took to Facebook Saturday and said he treated Robert Bowers, 46, in the emergency room for gunshot wounds he sustained while reportedly opening …
