Hate violence poses a serious threat to California communities. In every region of the state, incidents have occurred in which racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities have been harassed, intimidated, assaulted and even murdered. In some communities, acts motivated by bigotry have sparked widespread community disruption.
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Police in the small Northern California city of Hercules have launched a sexual assault and hate crime investigation after a transgender student was allegedly attacked by three teenage boys while using a bathroom that matches his gender identity. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-transgender-student-attack-bathroom-20140304,0,6223591.story#ixzz2v16qJgW4 Los …
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a Montgomery, AL based civil rights group, in an annual report released today stated that the number of domestic hate and anti-government groups declined last year after years of sustained increases that saw levels …
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OXFORD, Miss. — The University of Mississippi said Friday that students could face criminal charges for placing a noose on a statue honoring the college’s first black student, and a fraternity announced that it had expelled three men because of …
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An independent investigator’s report on San Jose State University’s handling of a racially charged case in which a black student was bullied for weeks by his white roommates has found that the university acted quickly and did “everything it could” …
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Students and staff at a small Bay Area high school donned sarongs and skirts Friday to show support for their classmate whose skirt was set on fire as he slept on an Oakland bus. Read more the Los Angeles Times.
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The swastikas, the students recalled, seemed to be everywhere: on walls, desks, lockers, textbooks, computer screens, a playground slide — even on a student’s face. Read more in The New York Times.
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Two Latino gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to federal hate crime charges stemming from racially motivated attacks on four black youngsters as part of a campaign of terror aimed at forcing African Americans out of west Compton. Read more in …
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Reported hate crimes in L.A. County fell 6% in 2012 from a year earlier, but violent attacks based on race and sexual orientation rose. Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
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Hate crimes reported in Los Angeles County declined 6 percent from 2011 to 2012, reaching the second lowest number in 23 years, but there was a slight uptick in the rate of violent incidents over that same year, according to …
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Islan Nettles was out in New York City with friends when a group of young men approached her, learned she was a transgender woman and began taunting and maliciously beating her—right in front of a police precinct in Harlem. Read …