hate crime

A video released this week shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car in 2017, and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the vehicle, an officer tries to use a stun gun on him. First obtained by The Guardian, the video released Monday shows Arbery refusing Glynn County police when they...

The attorney for a homeowner thrust into the spotlight of the Ahmaud Arbery shooting says a young black man filmed by a security camera walking through the unfinished home in December and February may have stopped there for a drink of water

Less than two weeks before Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by two men and fatally shot after purportedly entering a home under construction in Brunswick, Georgia, one of the suspects reported an encounter with a man at the same building site, according to NBC News.

The owner of a house under construction that played a role in the deadly shooting of a black man in Georgia says nothing was stolen from the house

Georgia’s attorney general has appointed a black district attorney from the Atlanta area to take over the case of a white father and son charged with killing a black man

The mother of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia black jogger slain in a pursuit by two white men armed with guns, called for their immediate arrests Thursday during an appearance on “Good Morning America.”

A San Diego man who told an Afghani trolley passenger “Go back to where you came from, I hate you,” before punching him was arrested Thursday and charged with felony battery and hate crimes.

When the Asian passenger doesn’t move after getting yelled at by the enraged man, he gets sprayed with the air freshener Febreze in his direction for about 15 seconds

The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that it will seek the death penalty for a man accused of opening fire inside a Poway synagogue last year, killing a woman and injuring three others.

Four new criminal charges were filed Thursday against a former delivery driver who is suspected in a series of alleged hate crime attacks on men in the West Los Angeles area. Joshua Immanuel Ebow, 30, of Los Angeles, allegedly committed the crimes because he perceived the victims to be gay or members of the LGBTQ community, according to the Los…

Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

A federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted the suspect in the Hanukkah stabbings in Rockland County of federal hate crime charges, a law enforcement source tells News 4 New York. Grafton Thomas, 37, was previously charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with allegedly obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in bodily injury in connection to the Dec. 28,…

Five people stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York. Four killed in a shooting at a Jersey City grocery store. A Brooklyn woman hit in the head as she walked with her child. The rash of anti-Semitic attacks gripping the New York-New Jersey area may feel like chilling coincidences, but statistics show they’re part of a wave of anti-Semitic violence that has...

The suspect in the Hanukkah stabbings in Rockland County was indicted Friday on six counts of attempted murder and multiple other charges, his lawyer confirms to News 4. Thirty-seven-year-old Grafton Thomas, the alleged attacker, is also facing three counts of assault, three counts of attempted assault and two counts of burglary. He faces up to 25 years in prison. “This…

The family of one of the stabbing victims of Saturday’s attack against the Jewish community in Rockland County gave an emotional update on his condition Thursday morning, saying that although the prognosis is grim they are praying for his recovery. They also urged the public to stand up against hate. Seventy-two-year-old Josef Neumann was one of five people stabbed...

On the final night of Hanukkah, police in Monsey, New York, stood guard outside the home of Rabbi Rottenberg after an alleged attacker walked inside his residence and stabbed five people the evening before.

A recent rash of anti-Semitic attacks in New York and New Jersey has the region’s Jewish community on edge, but their leaders have a message: keep the faith. Saturday night’s rampage at a crowded rabbi’s home in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York, left five people with stab wounds and a populace of hundreds of thousands struggling for...

Authorities say an Orange County man stabbed five people at a rabbi’s home late Saturday night in Monsey, New York — the latest and most violent in a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the greater New York City area in the last few days. Ramapo Police Chief Brad Weidel said the suspected attacker, identified as Grafton Thomas, 37, of Greenwood…

The mayor of Beverly Hills said he was pleased to report that police arrested the man believed to be “the sick and demented individual” who vandalized the synagogue. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019.

Police are searching for a man after he allegedly vandalized a Beverly Hills Synagogue early Saturday morning. The man allegedly broke into the Nessah Synagogue where he overturned furniture, damaged relics and ransacked the inside. The synagogue’s main scrolls were not damaged during the vandalism, according to police. Police do not believe anything was stolen during the incident. Police...