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FBI Investigating Colorado Asian Teen’s 2017 Death As Possible Hate Crime

FBI Investigating Colorado Asian Teen’s 2017 Death As Possible Hate Crime

In Dec. 2017, Maggie Long’s remains were discovered in her family’s home after a house fire in Bailey, Colorado.  Now, nearly three years later, the FBI is investigating the 17-year-old’s death as a possible hate crime.  FBI Now Viewing Maggie Long Murder As Possible Hate Crime https://t.co/XwmJp1pDEw pic.twitter.com/SkSFV9HZbo — CBSDenver (@CBSDenver) May 18, 2021 “The […]

Three men plead not guilty to hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death

Three men plead not guilty to hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death

Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot after being spotted running in the white defendants’ neighborhood. Travis McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, as well as a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, entered their pleas before a U.S. magistrate judge. […]

Three Georgia men charged with federal hate crimes in killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Three Georgia men charged with federal hate crimes in killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Three Georgia men who’ve been charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping according to NBC News. Arbery was jogging last year in Brunswick, Georgia when Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 65, pursued him in their truck and […]

Man charged with hate crimes after allegedly driving truck toward Black children

Man charged with hate crimes after allegedly driving truck toward Black children

An 36-year-old man is now facing numerous hate crimes and assaulted charges after allegedly attempting to run over Black children in his pickup truck after a playground fight in a Massachusetts school. Shane Belleville has been charged with assault and battery and four counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon, a civil rights violation […]

Maine man charged with hate crime in Black church arson

Maine man charged with hate crime in Black church arson

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Maine man accused of setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation been charged with hate crime offenses, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Dushko Vulchev is charged in federal court with four counts of damage to religious property involving fire and one count of use of fire to […]

Texas man sentenced for hate crime in stabbing of Black fast food employee

Texas man sentenced for hate crime in stabbing of Black fast food employee

A Texas man has been convicted of stabbing a Black Church’s Chicken employee in 2019 was sentenced to 45 years in prison eariler this week, according to KSAT. 30-year-old James Kemp received his sentence  two months after he was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and retaliation by 451st District Court Judge Kirsten […]