Hate Crimes – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

The ‘OK’ Hand Gesture Is Now Listed As A Symbol Of Hate

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-09-26T15:43:24+00:00 September 26th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The “OK” hand gesture, commonly seen as a way of indicating that all is well, has now been classified as something else: a symbol of hate. On Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, added 36 symbols to its “Hate on Display” database including the index finger-to-thumb sign that in some corners of

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Hate crimes in L.A. County, still on the rise, reach highest point in nearly a decade

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-09-26T09:33:30+00:00 September 26th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Despite a slight dip in the overall number of hate crimes reported statewide, the number of such targeted crimes in Los Angeles County increased last year, reaching its highest point in nearly a decade, according to an annual report by the L.A. County Commission on Human Relations.

Black and LGBTQ individuals were those most frequently targeted,

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Hate crimes targeting Jews and Latinos increased in California in 2018, report says

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-07-05T08:57:53+00:00 July 5th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Despite a slight decline in the overall number of hate crimes reported statewide, incidents targeting Latinos and Jewish people in California surged last year, an uptick experts have blamed on vitriolic rhetoric over immigration and emboldened hate groups.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes surged 21%. There were 104 hate crimes against Jews reported in 2017. A year later,

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The Murderer Was Full of Hate. But Did He Commit a Hate Crime?

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-06-12T08:46:03+00:00 June 12th, 2019|Hate Crimes|

DURHAM, N.C. — He hated religion. He hated rule breakers. He hated people who parked in his spot.

The man at the center of a case that caused a worldwide furor four years ago over anti-Muslim violence was filled with so much hate that he shot and killed three of his neighbors, all students of Middle

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THE FATAL SHOOTING OF MUHLAYSIA BOOKER IS PART OF A LARGER TREND OF VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK TRANS WOMEN

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-05-21T08:32:39+00:00 May 21st, 2019|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+|

The Dallas Police Department announced on Sunday that it had found a body early Saturday morning while responding to reports of a shooting. The department later identified the victim as Muhlaysia Booker, age 23.

Booker is one of five transgender women who have been killed in 2019. All five victims were black women, the Human Rights

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Synagogue Shooting Keeps Religious Leaders on Edge: ‘No One Should Be Gunned Down in Worship’

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-04-29T09:26:40+00:00 April 29th, 2019|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

POWAY, Calif. — The rabbi had just finished comforting a congregant as she prepared to say the traditional prayer for the dead in honor of her mother when a loud crack rang out in his synagogue.

It was about halfway through the Sabbath service on Saturday when a gunman turned what was

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Hateful Propaganda From White Supremacists Spreads

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-03-15T09:53:03+00:00 March 15th, 2019|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

White supremacist groups have ramped up their use of propaganda to spread racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic messages, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL recorded 1,187 incidents of white supremacist propaganda throughout the U.S. in 2018, up from 421 incidents in 2017. The group defines propaganda as the use of fliers, stickers,

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Neo-Nazi group’s leader is Southern California black man who vows to dissolve it

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-03-01T09:14:43+00:00 March 1st, 2019|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

One of the nation’s largest neo-Nazi groups appears to have an unlikely new leader: a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it.

Court documents filed Thursday suggest James Hart Stern wants to use his new position as director and president of the National Socialist Movement to undermine the Detroit-based group’s defense against a lawsuit.

The NSM

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‘HATE IS WAY MORE INTERESTING THAN THAT’: WHY ALGORITHMS CAN’T STOP TOXIC SPEECH ONLINE

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-02-28T09:12:25+00:00 February 28th, 2019|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

Erin Schrode didn’t know much about the extreme right before she ran for Congress. “I’m not going to tell you I thought anti-Semitism was dead, but I had never personally been the subject of it,” she says.

That changed when The Daily Stormer, a prominent neo-Nazi website, posted an article about her 2016 campaign. The

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HATE CRIMES ARE ON THE RISE. WHY DO MANY STILL GO UNREPORTED?

By Carmen Chandler| 2019-02-22T08:47:13+00:00 February 22nd, 2019|Hate Crimes|

When actor Jussie Smollett reported a racist and homophobic attack to the Chicago Police Department last month, he appeared to be one of an estimated 250,000 people targeted in hate crimes every year in the United States—although not all of them experience the level of violence Smollett described.

Now, law enforcement says that Smollett did not experience

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