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Posts Tagged ‘Hate Crimes’

November 21st, 2022 - 3:53 pm § in Misc.

Give him another medal

“Richard Fierro, a decorated Army veteran, was one of two people who tackled and subdued the gunman inside a gay nightclub Saturday night in Colorado Springs,” NBC News reported on Monday, November 21, 2022 (read story here). News reports have described Club Q as a “safe space̶[...]

September 19th, 2022 - 12:40 pm § in Politics

Crazy Trumper, or just crazy sociopath?

David Frick, 29, of Gainesville, Florida, likes to assault people, especially defenseless women. Florida court records show unspecified criminal charges filed against him on December 16, 2021 (here), and January 7, 2022 (here). A Florida TV station reported in March 2022 (here) he was arrested in De[...]

August 23rd, 2022 - 6:26 pm § in Law and Courts

Another guilty plea in Lynnwood skinhead assault case

Randy Aaron Smith, 42, of Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, to federal charges for participating in a skinhead gang’s brutal beating of a black disc jockey in 2018 at a Lynnwood, Washington bar (read story here). He was one of a group of at least 16 belligerent white [...]

August 5th, 2022 - 12:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism

Hate crime slasher gets 25 years

A 19-year-old Hispanic Texas man upset about the Covid-19 pandemic who followed a Burmese family into a store and attacked them with knives in March 2020 because he thought they were Chinese was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison (read story here). Jose Gomez III, now 21 (photo, left), was char[...]

May 6th, 2022 - 10:23 pm § in Health, Racism

Racism against Asian-Americans is at a pandemic high

There have been plenty of news stories about hate crimes against Asian-Americans. Stupid whites (and some Hispanics and blacks, too) have blamed them for Covid-19. They have nothing to do with it. And it’s getting worse. “More Americans are now blaming Asian Americans for Covid-19 than a[...]

May 3rd, 2022 - 4:14 pm § in Racism, Russia

Don’t judge all Russians by Putin’s behavior

Most of the badness is the handiwork of just one of them, and he doesn’t dance. In Italy this week, Russian and Ukrainian ballerinas danced together in a benefit show to raise money for the Red Cross (read story here; watch video below). A lot of the awful stuff that happens in the world resul[...]

January 21st, 2022 - 12:43 am § in Jews

How to ruin your life in 30 seconds

Spit on Jewish kids in direct view of a surveillance camera you don’t realize is there Three Jewish kids, ages 8, 7, and 2, were playing in a Brooklyn residential neighborhood when a 21-year-old Catholic college student came by. The woman, later identified as Christina Darling, has a history o[...]

December 28th, 2021 - 7:19 pm § in Jews, Law and Courts, Racism

Animal in a cage

John T. Earnest was 19 years old when he shot up a San Diego-area synagogue in April 2019, killing one and injuring three. Before that he torched a mosque. Federal hate-crime prosecutors said he did it because “he hated the Jewish community and Muslim community ….” And now? “[...]

April 27th, 2019 - 2:48 pm § in Jews, Religion

1 dead, 3 hurt in California synagogue attack

A gunman is in custody after opening fire Saturday in a Poway, California, Chabad synagogue, killing a woman, maiming the rabbi, and wounding 2 other people, including a young girl. Poway is a San Diego suburb. The suspect is described as a white male armed with an AR-type assault rifle, and police [...]

July 16th, 2018 - 11:24 am § in Uncategorized

Ohio woman arrested for spray painting “Hail Trump” and N-word on black neighbor’s house

Patricia Edelen of Toledo, Ohio, is in jail for spray painting hate messages on her black neighbor’s house. Read story here.  [...]