hate crime

The San Diego Police Department is looking for witnesses to a potential hate crime against an elderly Laotian man near an elementary school in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Two men pleaded not guilty Thursday in an alleged hate crime attack outside a Beverly Grove-area restaurant in May.

Thirty-year-old Jennifer Chen says she has no doubt what happened to her. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.

A gay San Diego resident said he remembers very little about the night he was violently attacked in Barrio Logan in an incident being investigated as a hate crime.

Protests in Spain to denounce a rise in hate crimes against LGBTQ people have gone ahead after a high-profile case that had grabbed attention across the country took an unexpected twist.

A judge has ruled that he won’t kick one of Jussie Smollett’s attorneys off his case but that the attorney won’t be allowed to question two key witnesses if the case goes to trial.

A 65-year-old man was charged Tuesday in connection with a hate crime attack on a Korean woman in Santa Monica.

A California woman who wrongly accused a Black teen of taking her phone at a New York City hotel late last year and grabbed at him as he tried to leave is now charged with a hate crime.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday. The shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. The gunman “walked by several other people…

There has been another violent attack against an Asian American woman, this time in Culver City. Angie Crouch reports for NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on June 17, 2021.

A 70-year-old Cerritos man pleads with the community to stop Asian hate after being attacked while going on a morning stroll with his wife at the park on Saturday.

Cesar Echano was walking with his wife at a park when he was attacked and verbally abused. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, June 10, 2021.

In the wake of three apparent anti-Semitic incidents in Los Angeles, in which a synagogue, a restaurant and supermarket in proximity were vandalized, the Community Security Service reiterated Sunday its urging of American Jewish leadership to prioritize security.

Police Saturday said a man was taken into custody, with the assistance of the U.S. Marshal Service, as one of the primary suspects who allegedly assaulted several Jewish men Tuesday outside a restaurant in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles city officials and faith leaders called for calm after hate attacks. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, May 20, 2021.

Some in Southern California say they fear for their lives due to a conflict happening halfway around the world. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

The attack happened in Beverly Hills. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.

A violent fight broke out in front of a restaurant during dinner service in Beverly Grove Tuesday night, and police say they’re looking at it as a possible hate crime.

People dining outside of a Beverly Grove restaurant scrambled to get out of the way of a fight, which police are looking into whether racially-motivated remarks were involved. Mekahlo Medina reports for Today in LA on May 19, 2021.

The Senate approved a bill Thursday that aims to curb a rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.