U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled Friday that she can’t interfere with the state court’s active prosecution of far-right leader Joey Gibson and that the correct place for Gibson’s challenges to his charges will be at his own trial.
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The leader of Patriot Prayer wants a federal judge to intervene in his state court trial, planned for March. His attorney says he’s the target of a “sham prosecution” and a “1984 week of hate type thing,” an apparent reference to George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel.
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By invoking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, the federal complaint against former President Donald Trump and his associates implicates far more reaching consequences than civil damages.
Read moreA Black woman working as an Omaha firefighter filed a lawsuit against the city after she said she faced verbal abuse from coworkers and found her gear hung from a station flagpole in a way that simulated “a public hanging or lynching.” She said she had to take a leave of absence after the city did nothing.
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On the same morning Facebook announced it will begin removing misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines on both its Facebook and Instagram platforms, the media giant confirmed Thursday that it is making algorithm changes to crack down on hate speech.
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Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday.
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A Greek court sentenced the leadership of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party to 13 years in prison Wednesday, imposing the near-maximum penalty for running a criminal organization blamed for numerous violent hate crimes.
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A federal judge on Wednesday resentenced Robert Doggart, a Tennessee man convicted on charges surrounding a plot to burn down a New York mosque, to 120 months in prison after an appeals court determined the house of worship was not involved in interstate commerce.
Read moreFour protesters who say they were terrorized by the Kenosha Guard brought a federal complaint Wednesday accusing Facebook of negligence for failing to shut down the right-wing militia group before Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people on Aug. 25.
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Small square brass plates set in the pavement remember Jewish residents of Berlin’s Lichtenberg district who were torn from their homes and killed by the Nazis decades ago. Nearby, the charred remains of a Jewish-run bar destroyed by arson last month attest to a hatred that still burns among far-right extremists.
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The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office did not engage in any criminal conduct relating to the case against actor Jussie Smollett, a special prosecutor announced Monday, but it did abuse its discretion.
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Two men accused of sucker punching a Black Lives Matter protester and throwing eggs at others at a June protest were charged with hate crimes Thursday by the San Diego district attorney.
Read moreOne major obstacle is preventing social media companies from effectively combating the proliferation of disinformation and hate speech online, two data ethics experts suggested during a virtual forum Wednesday.
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Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s new hate crimes bill into law Friday after state lawmakers passed the measure in a historic vote three days before, finally removing Georgia from a list of only four states without a hate crimes law on their books.
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The Texas man accused of killing 23 people and injuring 23 more at an El Paso Walmart last August was re-indicted on Thursday by a grand jury that added new murder and hate crime charges to the state’s case against the gunman.
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Jeremy Christian, convicted of hate crimes and the murders of two men on a Oregon commuter train, was sentenced to life in prison following a hearing punctuated by his outbursts, including yelling “I should have killed you, bitch!” at a black woman he assaulted.
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Georgia lawmakers approved a new hate crimes bill Tuesday afternoon that, if signed by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, would finally add the Peach State to a list of 46 other states with hate crimes legislation currently on their books.
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Georgia’s lieutenant governor proposed a new version of a hate crimes law Wednesday, responding to pressure from business leaders, lawmakers and activists in the Peach State calling for criminal justice reform following the highly publicized deaths of several unarmed black men.
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American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.
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A man armed with an assault rifle was arrested after shooting at the Cuban Embassy in Washington early Thursday, his bullets tearing holes into the walls and pillars near the front entrance in what authorities suspect was a hate crime.
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