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Cops: Student Threw Pork Into Jewish Frat House

2 Syracuse students charged with hate crime

(Newser) - Two Syracuse University students face hate crimes charges after authorities say one of them tossed a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity house during a Rosh Hashanah celebration. It happened around 6pm Tuesday at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, where members had gathered to mark the Jewish New...

He Got 5 Years for Racist Threats. Now, a Whole Lot More

Tyson Mayfield, who yelled racist slurs at a pregnant woman, now has a new 27-year sentence

(Newser) - A California man was sentenced on Friday to 27 years to life in prison for making racist threats against a pregnant Black woman after prosecutors appealed an earlier, lighter sentence, officials said. Tyson Mayfield, 49, pleaded guilty in a court-offered deal in 2019 to get a five-year sentence that the...

Elderly Woman Is First Fatality After Boulder Attack

Karen Diamond, 82, dies after June 1 attack on demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages

(Newser) - An 82-year-old Colorado woman injured in a Molotov cocktail attack on demonstrators in support of Israeli hostages in Gaza has died, prosecutors said Monday. Karen Diamond died as a result of severe injuries she suffered in the June 1 attack in downtown Boulder, Colorado, the local district attorney's office...

FBI: Boulder Suspect Planned Attack for a Year

Mohammed Sabry Soliman charged with federal hate crime

(Newser) - A man accused of using a makeshift flamethrower and an incendiary device to attack a group in Boulder, Colorado, that had gathered to bring attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza has been charged with a federal hate crime, according to court documents filed Monday. Eight people were injured in the...

Landlord Guilty of Hate Crime, Murder in Muslim Boy's Death

Prosecutors say Illinois man targeted victims because of their faith

(Newser) - An Illinois jury found a landlord guilty of murder and hate crime charges on Friday in a brutal attack on a Palestinian American family that killed a 6-year-old in 2023. Jurors deliberated less than 90 minutes before convicting Joseph Czuba in the fatal stabbing of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding...

Woman Charged in Attack on Guy in 'Palestine' Hoodie

64-year-old allegedly punched man, attempted to throw coffee on his wife at Panera Bread

(Newser) - An Illinois woman is facing hate crime charges after allegedly attacking a couple, including a man in a "Palestine" hoodie, at a Panera Bread in suburban Chicago on Saturday. A video viewed more than 1 million times on X shows Alexandra Szustakiewicz repeatedly trying to strike a woman who...

Dozen Frat Members, Pledges Charged in 'Horrifying' Assault

Salisbury University students charged with hate crime after allegedly luring, attacking gay man

(Newser) - A dozen students at Maryland's Salisbury University are facing hate crime charges after allegedly luring and attacking a gay man. The unnamed victim, who is not a student at the school, was lured to an off-campus apartment, where 18-year-old Zachary Leinemann allegedly gave a signal before a swarm of...

Judge to Club Q Shooter: 'You Will Never Get Out of Prison'

Anderson Aldrich pleads guilty to federal hate crime, gun charges in Colorado mass shooting

(Newser) - The shooter who killed five people and injured 19 others at an LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday and was sentenced to 55 life terms in prison. Anderson Lee Aldrich once again declined to apologize or say anything to the victims' families, the...

JK Rowling to Scotland: Go On, Arrest Me
Police Say They
Won't Arrest
JK Rowling
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Apr 2, 2024 4:38 PM CDT

Police Say They Won't Arrest JK Rowling

Comments on trans women 'are not assessed to be criminal and no further action will be taken'

(Newser) - Police in Scotland said Tuesday that they have received complaints about a tweet from JK Rowling but her "comments are not assessed to be criminal and no further action will be taken." In the post, the author described several transgender women as men and dared police to arrest...

Before Her Murder, the Texts Got Tense

Man found guilty of killing Black transgender woman, the first federal hate-crime trial of its kind

(Newser) - 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...

Arrest Made in Vicious NYC Attack Against Asian-American Woman
NYC Man Sentenced for
2021 Anti-Asian Attack
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Feb 22, 2024 3:00 AM CST

NYC Man Sentenced for 2021 Anti-Asian Attack

Older woman, an immigrant, was brutally attacked in Times Square

(Newser) - The New York man who brutally attacked an Asian-American woman in New York's Times Square in 2021 was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years behind bars. Brandon Elliot, 41, pleaded guilty to one count of assault in the first degree as a hate crime and one count of criminal...

Appeals Court Delivers Its Decision to Jussie Smollett

Illinois judges uphold actor's conviction on hate crime hoax; he'll appeal to state Supreme Court

(Newser) - It's bad news for Jussie Smollett , the former Empire actor who was found guilty in 2021 of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report about an alleged hate crime against him in Chicago. An Illinois appeals court on Friday upheld his conviction, and his five-month jail sentence, after...

Ex-Obama Aide Arrested After Rant Captured on Video

Stuart Seldowitz accused of harassing food cart worker

(Newser) - An official who served on the National Security Council under former President Obama was arrested Wednesday for alleging spewing hate at a halal food cart worker in Manhattan earlier this month. "You're a terrorist," Stuart Seldowitz, 64, allegedly told the employee, who filmed the verbal attacks, per...

Driver Purposely Plowed Into Me, Says Muslim Student at Stanford

Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime

(Newser) - A student was struck by a vehicle on the Stanford University campus Friday afternoon, and police are investigating the hit-and-run incident as a hate crime. Abdulwahab Omira says as he walked on the northern California campus around 2pm, someone who has displayed animosity toward Omira's community in the past...

Alleged Synagogue Vandal: 'I'm Just an Artist'

NYC man Lenny De La Rosa faces hate crime charges over August vandalism spree

(Newser) - A New York City man accused of vandalizing three synagogues has been charged with four counts of criminal mischief in the fourth degree as a hate crime—but he claims he is "just an artist." Asked by the New York Post whether he is antisemitic or "hates...

Jewish Students at Cornell Fearful After 'Horrific' Threats

Online messages threatened rape of Jews, shooting at building with college's kosher dining hall

(Newser) - Threatening messages on an online forum used by Cornell University students sparked fear among the Jewish community there over the weekend, and an investigation is ongoing. Per student newspaper the Cornell Sun , the messages popped up Saturday and Sunday on forums on Greekrank, a site dedicated to frats and sororities...

Murdered Muslim Boy's Mom Asks Public to 'Pray for Peace'

'He was my best friend,' says mother of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume

(Newser) - A Palestinian American woman whose 6-year-old son was killed in what police are calling a hate crime in a Chicago suburb has asked the public to "pray for peace" as she recuperates from her injuries. Hanaan Shahin issued a statement Tuesday through the Chicago chapter of the Council on...

As Crowds Mourn 6-Year-Old, Father Hopes Change Comes

Suspect appears in court on murder, hate crimes charges

(Newser) - Wadea Al-Fayoume, a 6-year-old Palestinian American who was stabbed to death Saturday, was buried Monday after a funeral that drew emotional mourners and speakers to an Illinois mosque. The service took place the same day the man charged with murder and hate crimes in the boy's death appeared in...

Biden Condemns 'Sickening' Murder of Muslim Boy, 6
'The Smallest Coffins
Are the Heaviest'
THE RUNDOWN
Oct 16, 2023 12:57 PM CDT

'The Smallest Coffins Are the Heaviest'

Biden condemns 'sickening' murder of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy

(Newser) - An Illinois landlord accused of stabbing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy to death could face federal charges as well as state hate crime charges. Joseph Czuba, 71, was due in court Monday as family members prepared to bury Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was stabbed 26 times Saturday morning in an attack...

Cops: Man Angry About Hamas Attack Killed Muslim Boy, 6

Illinois man is charged with hate crime, murder

(Newser) - An Illinois woman called 911 Saturday morning to report that her landlord was attacking her and her son. Police arrived to a horrifying scene at the Plainfield Township home: the woman with more than a dozen stab wounds, a 6-year-old boy who'd been stabbed 26 times, and the suspect...

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