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Mar 14 2024
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6 middle schoolers arrested on hate charges over online chat involving 'mock slave auction,' Massachusetts police say
Massachusetts police arrested six middle school students on hate charges over an online chat where they participated in a "mock slave auction" of other students.
Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni told reporters at a media briefing that the students were charged with online bullying over the chat room that targeted two of their fellow students at Southwick Regional School.
The BlazeFeb 27 2024
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Major new Canadian legislation would penalize online hate at risk of censorship
The Canadian government has introduced legislation proposing new regulatory bodies and heavier sentences to combat online abuse, a proposal backed by some U.S. Big Tech firms with major implications for free speech. Canadian Justice Minister Arif Virani on Monday introduced the Online Harms Act, also known as Bill C-63, to Canada’s legislature for consideration. The act, which has relatively
Washington ExaminerMar 08 2024
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Tampa man charged in hate-motivated murder of gay man at dog park, state attorney says
Tampa man charged in hate-motivated murder of gay man at dog park, state attorney says
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) - A Tampa man has been charged with with second-degree murder for a deadly shooting at a local dog park, according to prosecutors. Friday, the State Attorney's Office for the 13th Judicial Circuit announced that it has filed charges against Gerald Declan Radford,...
Spot On FloridaMar 01 2024
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Hate crime charges added for home-invasion suspects accused of targeting Asian people
New evidence in a series of home-invasion robberies targeting Asian families has now produced hate crime charges. The new hate crime charges were filed against two men following a months-long investigation by Seattle and Renton police. Javez Paul Tubbs, 32, and Demarcus Maurice Pate, 28, have been jailed since September, when they were arrested for a series of armed home-invasion robberies
KOMO NewsFeb 20 2024
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First Federal Trial for Hate Crime Based on Gender Identity Starts
(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity began Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter lured the woman — who is referred to as Dime Doe in court documents — into driving to a sparsely
Time MagazineFeb 07 2024
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Young Mexican-Muslim Stabbing Classified as Hate Crime
Last Sunday, February 4th, a violent incident occurred at the intersection of West 26 and Nueces streets in Austin, Texas. A young man, Zachary, was attacked after participating in a protest over the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Members of the Muslim community in Austin are asking authorities to investigate the case as a hate crime, as they believe that the violence happening in Gaza
Alaska CommonsFeb 24 2024
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Man guilty in first federal hate crime trial over gender identity
A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation's first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity. After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the murder of Dime Doe in 2019. Ritter was also found guilty of using a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting and obstructing
Scripps NewsFeb 22 2024
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‘You can’t love your country if you hate half the people in it’
When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, agreed to film an advertisement for Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s “Disagree Better” initiative, he knew just who he would ask.
It was a Republican from the western side of his state, Mayor Jack Coburn of Lonaconing, who Moore had visited shortly after assuming the governorship. The town was having a water crisis at the time.
Moore said when
Deseret NewsMar 01 2024
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Man arrested after 2 wounded in suspected hate-related shooting outside Virginia Sheetz store
Authorities say a double shooting outside a Sheetz convenience store in Virginia appears to be hate-related after arresting a man they say pulled the trigger. Douglas Wayne Cornett, 57, of Caroline County allegedly shot two Hispanic men just before 9:30 p.m. on February 28. The shooting happened in the store’s parking lot in the 5000 block of Mudd Tavern Road in the Thornburg area. The two
Fox 5 DCFeb 20 2024
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First federal gender-based hate crime trial in U.S. begins in S.C.
The nation’s first federal hate crime trial based on gender identity got underway Tuesday in South Carolina, nearly five years after the fatal shooting of a Black transgender woman whose body was found inside a parked car in Allendale County, near the Georgia border. Federal prosecutors accuse 26-year-old Daqua Lameek Ritter of shooting Pebbles LaDime “Dime” Doe to death because of her “actual
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