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New York Hanukkah machete attack suspect could face potential death penalty trial if comatose victim dies

World / Crime & Legal Jan 14, 2020

New York Hanukkah machete attack suspect could face potential death penalty trial if comatose victim dies

The man accused of stabbing at least five people in a machete rampage at the home of a Hasidic rabbi during a Hanukkah celebration could face a death penalty trial if one of his alleged victims, still in a coma, dies, a judge said ...

Suspect in New York stabbing attack at rabbi's home charged with federal hate crimes

World / Crime & Legal Dec 31, 2019

Suspect in New York stabbing attack at rabbi's home charged with federal hate crimes

Federal prosecutors Monday filed hate crime charges against a man accused of going on a stabbing rampage during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi's home north of New York City, saying the suspect kept journals containing references to Adolf Hitler and "Nazi culture." The United ...

Grand jury indicts man accused of gunning down 22 people at El Paso Walmart

World / Crime & Legal Sep 13, 2019

Grand jury indicts man accused of gunning down 22 people at El Paso Walmart

A Texas grand jury on Thursday indicted a man accused of killing 22 people and wounding 26 others in an August shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, who had told authorities he was targeting Mexicans, a local prosecutor said. Patrick Crusius, 21, was ...

Mexico pushes U.S. to designate El Paso shooting massacre an act of terrorism

World / Crime & Legal Aug 15, 2019

Mexico pushes U.S. to designate El Paso shooting massacre an act of terrorism

Mexico's government on Wednesday doubled down on its assertion that the Aug. 3 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was an act of terrorism against Mexicans and urged the United States to ensure the incident was designated as such. Speaking after meetings on Tuesday between ...

Protests erupt in Indian cities after Muslim man is lynched; Modi says he is 'pained'

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jun 27, 2019

Protests erupt in Indian cities after Muslim man is lynched; Modi says he is 'pained'

Protests were held in several Indian cities on Wednesday following the lynching of a Muslim man last week by a Hindu mob that suspected he was a thief. Increasing anger about the killing in the eastern state of Jharkhand prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ...

Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for over a decade

Asia Pacific Mar 31, 2019

Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for over a decade

Weeks before a gunman killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, a man had threatened to burn copies of the Quran outside New Zealand mosques, in what community leaders said was the latest in a long list of threatening behavior against religious minorities. Police said they warned ...

Trump calls Jussie Smollett case 'embarrassment' and announces review

Entertainment News Mar 29, 2019

Trump calls Jussie Smollett case 'embarrassment' and announces review

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Department of Justice will "review" the case of actor Jussie Smollett, who was charged with staging a fake hate crime in Chicago before prosecutors abruptly dropped the case this week. Trump wrote in an early-morning Twitter ...

New Zealand marks one week since mosque massacre with prayers, scarves

Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Mar 22, 2019

New Zealand marks one week since mosque massacre with prayers, scarves

New Zealanders prepared for nationwide prayers on Friday to mark one week since a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead thousands of mourners expected to gather at a park in front of the Al Noor ...

Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police over hate-crime hoax

Entertainment News Mar 12, 2019

Actor Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts of lying to Chicago police over hate-crime hoax

Television actor Jussie Smollett, arrested last month on a single charge of perpetrating a hate-crime hoax, has been newly indicted on 16 felony counts of falsely reporting to police that he was assaulted by two strangers shouting racist and homophobic slurs. The indictment, returned by ...

'Didn't occur in a vacuum': Canada hate crimes rose 47% in 2017, especially against Muslims

World / Crime & Legal Nov 30, 2018

'Didn't occur in a vacuum': Canada hate crimes rose 47% in 2017, especially against Muslims

Hate crimes in Canada increased 47 percent in 2017, primarily targeting Muslims, Jews and black people, according to figures released by the country's statistical agency on Thursday. The biggest increase was in crimes targeting Muslims, Statistics Canada reported, in a year that saw a deadly ...

World / Crime & Legal Nov 28, 2018

Top Democratic lawmaker to probe hate crimes and surveillance of minorities after GOP ranks balked

The presumed incoming Democratic Chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday he plans to investigate the drastic spike in hate crimes and whether federal investigators have wrongfully targeted racial and ethnic minorities instead of focusing on white supremacist groups. In a letter ...

U.K. far-right figure whose anti-Muslim videos were retweeted by Trump is jailed for hate crime

World / Politics Mar 8, 2018

U.K. far-right figure whose anti-Muslim videos were retweeted by Trump is jailed for hate crime

AFP-Jiji The deputy leader of far-right group Britain First, who hit the headlines after U.S. President Donald Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos she posted, was jailed Wednesday for 36 weeks for religiously aggravated harassment. Jayda Fransen, 31, filmed and posted online videos of people whom she wrongly ...

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