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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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 …
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Australian Christopher Lane was killed on Monday in Oklahoma by three teens, one of whom has said they were just “bored.” The right is complaining that the media is making nothing of the fact that two of the teens were …
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The monthlong string of hate crimes that prompted a federal investigation and culminated in Oberlin College canceling classes for a day in the spring was a hoax orchestrated by two students who have since been removed from campus, The Daily …
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Christopher Lane was Australian. But his death in Oklahoma — allegedly at the hands of three “bored” teenagers — has become entangled in uncomfortable conversations and innuendo about race in the U.S. Read more in the Los Angeles Times.
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The total number of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. has continued to decline, falling 31 percent from 1,352 incidents in 2008 to 927 incidents in 2012, according to data released today by the Anti-Defamation League. Read more in the …