Recent Posts in Hate Crimes Category

Inmate Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime

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 ...

Two Arrested for Hate Crime

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 ...

Man Denies Hate Crime

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 ...

Church Fire Likely Linked to Hate Crime

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 ...

Assault Turns into Hate Crime Charge

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 ...

Jury Charges Man with Hate Crime

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 ...

Man Found Guilty of Hate Crime

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 ...

Hate Crime Injunction Overturned

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 ...

Deadly Shooting is Hate Crime

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 ...

Mistrial in Hate Crime Case

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. ...

Michigan Dentist Ordered to Community Service for Anti-Semitic Letter

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 ...

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