Charles Murrell, a black classically-trained saxophonist, headed for a Boston library on July 2, 2022, to play his sax on the sidewalk. He never got there. Dozens of toughs from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi hate group (details here), were outside the library. When they saw Murrell, they attacked him, s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hate Crimes’
Racist Trumper stalks and attacks TV reporter
Trump doesn’t hesitate to incite his supporters against minorities and the news media, and that exploded into violence against a Colorado TV reporter on December 13, 2024. Patrick Thomas Egan (photo, left), 39, spotted a reporter in a TV station car, followed him 40 miles to the station, then [...]
November 14th, 2024 - 11:33 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
This isn’t how to get sympathy for Palestinians
What’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza, and the West Bank, is a tragedy. Yes, Palestinian militants have a long history of terrorism, and the Oct. 7 terror attacks incited the violent Israeli response. But the only “crime” of the Palestinian children being killed and maimed is un[...]
November 8th, 2024 - 6:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
How 12 college students just ruined their lives
They lured a gay man to a rooming house by going on Tindr and pretending to solicit sex; when he arrived they grabbed him, forced him into a chair, then punched, kicked, and spit on him. They threw him to the floor every time he tried to leave. Twelve students are charged with “first degree [&[...]
Attacking the messenger
The postal carrier was only delivering the mail. So why did Russell Frank Valleau (photo, left), 61, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, chase her with a knife? Because his mail that day included a Kamala Harris flyer. After yelling “derogatory, racist and sexual remarks,” he lunged toward h[...]
June 23rd, 2024 - 12:02 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
A shocking hate crime in Texas
A drunk woman harassed a U.S. citizen of Palestinian ethnicity, making racist remarks, then tried to drown her 3-year-old daughter in the apartment complex pool. Even though she told cops she intends to kill the entire family, her bail was set at only $25,000 for attempted murder and $15,000 for inj[...]
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[...]