“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett will appear in court in Chicago on Thursday to be sentenced following his conviction for lying to police. As previously reportet, Smollett claimed he was the victim of a racist hate crime in January 2019, but a jury agreed with prosecutor arguments that Smollett falsely represented the incident in a police …
An Iowa man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the brutal death of a Black man found burned in a ditch in 2020. According to NBC News, four people were charged last year in connection with the death of 44-year-old Michael Williams. Steven Vogel, 31; his mother, Julia Cox, 55; Roy Garner, …
Robert Long, a Georgia man who confessed to killing numerous Asian people earlier this year, is facing the death penalty in Fulton County, despite taking a plea deal to spare his life in another county. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Long pleaded guilty in July at the Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton, to the …
A Virginia federal appeals court upheld the death penalty on Wednesday for Dylann Roof, a South Carolina teen who shot and killed numerous Black worshippers who welcomed him into their church. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Roof’s attorneys filed a 321-page legal brief with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond last year, claiming …
An Iowa woman already sentenced to 25 year for intentionally running over a 14-year-old Latina girl and a 12-year-old Black boy with her SUV was sentenced Thursday to the same amount on federal hate crimes charges stemming from the incidents. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, was given two concurrent 25 year sentences in May after pleading …
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force has opened an investigation into an assault of a Jewish man that occurred near Thursday’s protests
Shocking security footage captured the moment a San Francisco man allegedly stabbed two Asian women on Tuesday, as they stood near a bus stop at the city’s Mid-Market area. Footage obtained by ABC 7 shows a male later identified as Patrick Thompson as he allegedly walked up to two Asian women at Market Street in …
A Mexican American grandmother was severely beaten on a Los Angeles Metro bus last week when she was profiled as Asian American, according to her son. The son, who identified himself as Pete, said his mother was heading to a supermarket on the 81 bus Friday afternoon to shop for her granddaughter, The Eastsider reported. …
Two New York building security staff members who reportedly witnessed a brutal assault on an Asian woman have been suspended for allegedly not stepping in to help her. According to the New York Post, the incident happened in Manhattan on Monday near West 43rd Street and Ninth Avenue, when an unidentified male started yelling racist …
A Lousiana man was indicted on Thursday in connection with a hate crime and other offenses after he allegedly planned to kill his date. BuzzFeed News reports that Chance Seneca, of Lafayette, was arrested in 2020 for kidnapping his Grindr date, identified as Holden White, and physically harming him to the point of putting the …
California authorities have arrested a man accused of attacking two Asian people on the same day. The San Francisco Police Department reports that 39-year-old Steven Jenkins was arrested following “violent assaults” against a 75-year-old Asian female and an 83-year-old Asian male. The 75-year-old, identified as Xiao Zhen Xie, said she was standing on a sidewalk, waiting …
An elderly California woman who was attacked on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday opened up about defending herself against an assailant, which left him in the hospital. CBS SF BayArea reports that Xiao Zhen Xie, 76, said she was standing on a sidewalk, waiting at a traffic light at Market Street and Charles J. …
