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Mar 09 2023
News
Michigan man indicted for hate crime in Jewish threats case
DETROIT (AP) — A man charged with threatening the lives of Jewish Michigan public officials on Twitter was indicted on a hate crime charge Thursday, a prosecutor said. Jack Eugene Carpenter III, 41, of Tipton, Michigan, made threats against Jewish government officials in Michigan on the social media platform while he was in Texas last month, U.S. Attorney Dawn Ison said. “Hate and bias-related
San Antonio Express-News
Mar 01 2023
News
Maui hate crime case spotlights Hawaii's racial complexity
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate HONOLULU (AP) — In a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race, two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi
Beaumont Enterprise
Feb 17 2023
News
Suspect charged with hate crimes in shootings of 2 Jewish men in L.A.
A 28-year-old man arrested in connection with the shootings of two Jewish men outside synagogues in Los Angeles this week was charged Friday with federal hate crimes, authorities said. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced that Jaime Tran faces two counts of committing hate crimes for the two shootings, which occurred in the morning hours on Wednesday and Thursday. Both victims suffered gunshot
CBS News (Online)
Feb 17 2023
News
Man Arrested In Shootings Outside LA Synagogues Investigated As Hate Crimes
Two shootings of men leaving Pico-Robertson area synagogues Wednesday and Thursday sent shockwaves through a community that has seen an uptick in hate crimes targeting Jews. It prompted police to increase patrols in the area and calls for a crackdown on hate crimes. The case is being investigated as a hate crime, the LAPD confirmed Friday. "Los Angeles Police Department's investigation led to
Patch.com
Feb 17 2023
News
Jewish Hate Crime Shootings Linked To Riverside County Man: FBI
Authorities arrested Jaime Tran, who faces hate crime allegations in the shooting, according to a Department of Justice affidavit. According to federal investigators, a witness reported gunfire in Cathedral City, and responding officers found Tran with an AK-style rifle and a .380-caliber handgun consistent with a pair of shootings in West Los Angeles Wednesday and Thursday. "In a Mirandized,
Patch.com
Mar 02 2023
News
2 Native HI men to be sentenced for a hate crime after brutally beating a white man
In a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race, two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. in November, finding that they were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman
Fox News (Online News)
Mar 06 2023
News
2 Native Hawaiian men face years in prison for beating a white man in federal hate crime
HONOLULU — Two Native Hawaiian men wouldn't have brutally beaten a man if he weren't white, a U.S. judge said Thursday in sentencing them to yearslong prison terms for a hate crime in a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race. A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. in November, finding that they were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman's race
USA TODAY
Dec 17 2022
News
Antisemitic hate crimes rise in major cities
Antisemitic hate crimes are trending higher this year in several major cities, and could surpass 2021 numbers — a possible record year, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.
Why it matters: The White House has expressed alarm about rising antisemitic violence across the U.S. and a jump in racist and antisemitic social media posts, but collecting data is difficult
Axios
Sep 19 2022
Opinion
The Hate Crime Double Standard
The entire concept of 'hate crime' has never made any sense to me. If someone makes a conscious choice to kill another human being, is the victim any less dead because the perpetrator disliked their protected characteristic versus a dislike of another, unprotected characteristic? Does the husband who kills his spouse because he hated her deserve less jail time than a killer who murders a black
Townhall
Feb 17 2023
News
LA man charged with federal hate crime over shooting of two Jewish men
A Los Angeles man was charged with a federal hate crime over the shooting of two Jewish men in the city. Jaime Tram, 28, is accused of shooting the two men in two separate instances on Wednesday and Thursday. The men were coming out of a synagogue, ABC News reported. Martin Estrada, U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, said in a Friday press briefing that both men were shot "
Washington Examiner