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hate crime stories: 39 news summaries

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Brit Cop Fights for Life
After Gay Hate Attack

Mob of Liverpool teens leaves rookie critically injured

Oct 27, 09 4:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A rookie British police officer is fighting for his life in a Liverpool hospital after being attacked by a gang of teens for being gay. The 22-year-old man was set upon by a dozen attackers after leaving a gay bar with his partner and their friends. He suffered multiple skull... More »

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homophobia • hate crime • Liverpool • assault • Britain • police officer

W.Va. Woman Recants Kidnap, Torture Story

Prosecutor stands by '07 convictions, didn't rely on her testimony

Oct 22, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A black woman who accused seven white people of beating and raping her while keeping her captive in a West Virginia trailer in 2007 has recanted her story, according to her lawyer. Six of the seven are currently serving prison time after confessing and accepting plea bargains. Megan Williams, whose... More »

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Al Sharpton • hate crime • rape • West Virginia • Megan Williams

 Vicious Beating 
 of NY Gay 
 Caught 
 on Tape 

Jack Price remains in coma

Oct 14, 09 4:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The brutal hate-crime beating of a gay man on a deserted Queens street was captured on a neighborhood surveillance video. Jack Price, 49, tries repeatedly to escape his attackers who continue to punch and stomp him on the tape. "From beginning to end, it was absolutely horrible," Price's... More »

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homophobia • crime • hate crime • arrest • taped beating • videotaped beating • gay • Jack Price

Jamaican Busted in Murder of UK Diplomat

Cops suspect slaying motivated by gay hatred

Oct 5, 09 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 23-year-old Jamaican man has been arrested in the suspected gay-hate murder of a British diplomat. Consul John Terry, 62, was found last month bludgeoned and strangled in his long-time Montego Bay home with a handwritten note on his body containing a derogatory term for gays, reports the Telegraph. Police... More »

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homophobia • crime • murder • hate crime • Jamaica • diplomat • gay • anti-gay slur • John Terry

(Newser) - A surge in vicious, unprovoked assaults on homeless people has put weight behind efforts to reclassify such attacks as hate crimes, the New York Times reports. Attacks have risen as more people have been pushed onto the streets by the recession, and researchers say the assailants are generally men or,... More »

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murder • hate crime • recession • homeless • assault • homeless encampment

Holocaust Museum Shooter Indicted

Von Brunn faces death penalty on first-degree murder charges in DC

Jul 29, 09 2:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 89-year-old man who shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum last month was charged today with first-degree murder, killing in a federal building, and bias-motivated crime, among other accusations, the Washington Post reports. If convicted, James von Brunn faces life in prison, though four of the... More »

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Washington DC • hate crime • Holocaust Museum • gunman • shooters • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

Senate Votes to Expand
Hate Crime Laws to Gays

Five Republicans join in 62-38 vote

Jul 17, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate has voted to extend hate crime protections to include those attacked because of their gender or sexual orientation, mirroring a similar measure already passed in the House, the Hill reports. Five Republicans, including Olympia Snowe and Dick Lugar, joined all the Democrats present in supporting the bill. Other... More »

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Congress • gay rights • Senate • hate crime • Richard Lugar • Olympia Snowe • gay • Jim DeMint

 Perez Sorry for Gay 'F Word' 


Jun 25, 09 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Celeb blogger Perez Hilton has apologized for using the "F word" gay slur in his dust-up with the Black Eyed Peas. Band manager Polo Molino has been charged with assault for allegedly punching Hilton after the gossip maven dissed Will.i.am after a video awards show in Toronto.... More »

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hate crime • lawsuit • assault • Perez Hilton • Black Eyed Peas • Will.i.am • anti-gay slur • GLAAD • polo molino

(Newser) - With Congress set to pass strengthened hate crime legislation this summer, Conservative Christian leaders are ratcheting up their opposition to a bill that would extend those protections to gays and lesbians, USA Today reports. Conservative leaders say they’re worried that clergy who preach against homosexuality could end up liable... More »

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lesbians • hate crime • Christian conservatives • gays • Matthew Shepard

Defying Hate, Visitors Return to Holocaust Museum

Museum staff 'more dedicated than ever' after guard's murder

Jun 13, 09 2:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The National Holocaust Museum opened its doors again yesterday after a day of mourning for slain security guard Stephen Johns and hundreds of visitors lined up for admission, the Washington Post reports. Visitors, including families and school groups from around the country, spoke of their determination to defy the hatred... More »

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hate crime • Holocaust Museum • anti-Semitism • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn • Stephen Johns

Von Brunn's Digital Trail Disappears

Web page, message board rants removed after suspect named

Jun 12, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - James von Brunn's online presence began to vanish within hours after he was named as the suspect in the Holocaust Museum shooting Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Users trying to access his personal website received an error message, his user bio on Wikipedia was pulled, and the Free Republic message... More »

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Internet • hate crime • message boards • Holocaust Museum • anti-Semitism • National Holocaust Museum • James Von Brunn

Aide's Plea in Hate Crime Undercuts Tancredo

Speechwriter used racial slur, karate chop

Jun 2, 09 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - An aide to Tom Tancredo has pleaded guilty to a hate crime, compromising the former congressman's credibility as he helps lead the opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, the Washington Independent reports. Marcus Epstein, executive director of the onetime Republican presidential candidate's PAC, copped to using a... More »

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immigration • hate crime • racism • law school • Tom Tancredo • University of Virginia • assault • Sonia Sotomayor • Marcus Epstein • karate chop • Team America PAC

4 Busted in 'Hate Crime' Rape
of Lesbian

Tips from outraged
San Francisco area
led to suspects

Jan 2, 09 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Police have arrested all four suspects in the Bay Area kidnapping and gang rape of a lesbian last month that police have deemed a hate crime, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The two adults and two teenagers face charges including felony kidnapping to commit a sex crime, carjacking and gang... More »

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lesbians • kidnapping • hate crime • rape • Bay Area • arrest • sexual assault

 Cops: SF Bay Lesbian 
 Gang-Raped in Hate Crime 

Attackers taunted victim over her sexual orientation

Dec 23, 08 3:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Bay Area police are treating the brutal gang rape of a lesbian as a hate crime, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The victim, who displayed a gay pride sticker on her license plate, was kidnapped, gang-raped and dumped naked by four men who taunted about her sexual orientation. A $10,... More »

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crime • lesbians • hate crime • rape • Bay Area • homosexual • sexual assault

Kids Attack Redheads
on 'Kick a Ginger' Day

Facebook group, inspired by 'South Park,' told teens to kick peers

Nov 23, 08 4:31 PM CST
(Newser) - Inspired by a Facebook page, kids in Vancouver spent a day kicking and punching redheads for fun, the Vancouver Sun reports. Trouble is, being hit hurts. "I was amazed by the amount of people that kicked me," said 13-year-old Aaron Mishkin, who figures he was assaulted about 80... More »

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Facebook • redhead • hate crime • South Park

(Newser) - A KKK leader and one of his followers must pay $2.5 million in damages for the vicious beating of an American Indian teen in 2006, the Courier-Journal reports. Prosecutors hope the verdict in the civil trial will be economically devastating to the Kentucky-based Imperial Klans of America, the... More »

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Kentucky • hate crime • Ku Klux Klan • KKK • civil trial • American Indian

 Palin Effigy Sparks Uproar 

Complaints over Halloween display

Oct 28, 08 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - An effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from a noose outside a West Hollywood house has triggered a community furor, reports the Los Angeles Times. The effigy is part of a grim Halloween display which also shows a John McCain mannequin surrounded by flames and skeletons. Complaints calling the display a... More »

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John McCain • hate crime • effigy • noose • Halloween • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Chad-Michael Morisette

Senate OKs
Civil Rights-Era Cold-Case Unit

Bill would give Justice Department $10M a year to examine killings

Sep 25, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Senate unanimously passed a bill that would open a Justice Department unit to re-examine civil-rights era killings that have gone unpunished, the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger reports. The Emmett Till Act, named after the Chicago teen whose murderers confessed publicly, has also passed the House and will be... More »

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Department of Justice • hate crime • racism • civil rights • Emmett Till

 Wyo. Changes 
 Sluggishly Since 
 Shepard Murder 

10 years after gay student's murder, authors revisit Laramie

Sep 17, 08 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The creators of The Laramie Project have returned to Wyoming to explore the legacy of Matthew Shepard’s murder 10 years later, the New York Times reports. In revisiting the people whose words make up the script, the theater company found that there has been progress —albeit... More »

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theater • murder • hate crime • Wyoming • gays • Matthew Shepard

Court Tosses Ex-Klansman's
Conviction in '64 Murders

Statute of limitations for kidnapping had expired, appeals panel rules

Sep 10, 08 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court has thrown out last year's conspiracy and kidnapping conviction of an ex-Klansman involved in the murders of two black teens in Mississippi in 1964. Lawyers for James Ford Seale said they will seek to have the 72-year-old cancer patient, who was serving three life sentences, freed... More »

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kidnapping • murder • appeal • hate crime • James Ford Seale • Ku Klux Klan • Charles Eddie Moore • Henry Hezekiah Dee • conspiracy • KKK • civil rights • statute of limitations

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