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 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, …
By MICHAEL BIESECKER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The man arrested in the mass shooting Saturday at a Pennsylvania synagogue appears to have made virulently anti-Semitic posts on a social media platform popular with far-right extremists, including one made shortly before the attack. Police have identified the suspect as Robert Bowers, …
Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich provided an update on the victims of a deadly mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday morning. A total of 11 people were confirmed dead. Though earlier reports indicated the shooting occurred during a baby-naming ceremony, he said no children were among the fatalities. “Additionally, six …
An Oklahoma inmate sentenced to life without parole for killing his Lebanese neighbor in a hate crime has died just six months after he was condemned to life in prison. According to Tulsa World, Stanley Vernon Majors, 63, was found dead Wednesday in an infirmary bed at Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The details surrounding his …
Florida prosecutors charged four men under the state’s hate-crime enhancement law for allegedly attacking a gay couple during Miami Beach’s pride parade. From the Miami Herald, Juan Carlos Lopez, 21, Luis M. Alonso Piovet, 20, Adonis Diaz, 21, and Pablo Reinaldo Romo-Figueroa, 21, face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty of assaulting Rene Chalarca and …
The parents of a 19-year-old college student found stabbed at least 20 times and hidden in a shallow grave in Foothills Ranch, California, think that their son was the target of a hate crime for being gay. ABC News reports that the parents of Blaze Bernstein, Gideon Bernstein and Jeanne Pepper Bernstein, issued a public …
Authorities charged a white student at the University of Maryland with a hate crime after police said he fatally stabbed a black student, according to the Washington Post. The charges come after investigators reportedly reviewed Sean Urbanski’s phone and social media activity. A grand jury handed down the additional charge as Urbanski, 22, was already charged …
By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER, Associated Press HOUSTON, Mo. (AP) — Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld’s burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen’s eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed in the genitals. As questions swirl about why …
A North Carolina man has described being attacked and beaten at a church prayer service — because he is gay. According to the Washington Post, Matthew Fenner told police that more than 2o people — including a church leader — surrounded him after a meeting at the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale in January 13. …
Two white men were acquitted of murdering the boy after an all-white jury deliberated for less than an hour
Jewish cultural centers all over the U.S. have been receiving threats
