Recent Posts in Hate Crimes Category
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
An inmate in the Texas area has reportedly pleaded guilty to the charge of hate crime in relation to assaulting another inmate. According to reports, he allegedly believed the other inmate was gay ...
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
Two people in the Santa Rosa, California area have allegedly been arrested in connection with a possible hate crime. According to reports, the two white men were in a parking lot when they allegedly ...
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
A man in the Rhinelander, Wisconsin area is being accused of a hate crime but he claims he is innocent. According to reports, the man is accused of threatening a neighbor’s child with a racial ...
Posted on Sep 1, 2012
A church in South Bloomingville, Ohio has reportedly been ravaged by a major fire which possibly could have been the act of a hate crime. According to reports, the church is well known in the ...
Posted on Jan 27, 2011
An assault matter in the Saratoga Springs, New York area has turned into a hate crime matter. The incident involved a college student who taunted a white man and a black man at dinner. Eventually, the ...
Posted on Oct 10, 2010
In Hawaii, a grand jury has charged a man with using racial epithets in threats to kill his neighbor. Thomas Fiust has formally been charged with first-degree terroristic threatening. This crime is ...
Posted on Jul 23, 2010
A jury has convicted a man of second-degree murder as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime in relation to the killing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in 2008. Keith Phoenix is now facing life ...
Posted on Jul 17, 2010
The Vermont Supreme court has overturned a hate crime injunction against a man who has been accused of harassing his neighbor. An injunction was previously granted against Daniel Madden who was ...
Posted on Jul 7, 2010
In Phoenix, Arizona, a deadly shooting has officially been labeled a hate crime. Police report that the shooting of Juan Varela by his neighbor Gary Kelley was most likely done because of Valera's ...
Posted on May 31, 2010
A mistrial has been declared in a hate crime case alleging that a Brooklyn man beat an Ecuadorean immigrant to death. The case was declared a mistrial because juror refused to deliberate any further. ...
Posted on Mar 12, 2010
A dentist in Michigan originally charged with sending an anti-Semitic letter to a Jewish dentist has been ordered by to perform community service after he offered to tell a racially motivated joke to ...