The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/hate-crimes/)
A jury urged a judge to impose the long sentence on James Alex Fields Jr., the Hitler admirer who killed a woman when he rammed his car into counterprotesters. Sentencing was set for March 29.
A 21-year-old man inspired by the Pittsburgh synagogue killings was accused of planning to attack a Toledo synagogue. In an unrelated case, a woman was charged with stockpiling bomb materials and planning a mass killing at a Toledo bar.
James Fields of Maumee, Oh., a supporter of neo-Nazi beliefs who took part in the violent white-supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year, was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing a woman by ramming his car through counterprotesters.
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of James Alex Fields, Jr., the man accused of ramming his car through a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The defense says Fields can’t get a fair trial in the city.
Civil rights leader and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young’s “distinguished contributions to justice” were cited by American Society of Criminology president Karen Heimer in giving him the Presidential Justice Award.
The majority of hate crime victims last year were targeted because of the offenders’ race, ethnicity, and/or ancestry bias, according to an FBI report released Tuesday
Some hate crimes are so heinous there’s no debate about whether they should be prosecuted. But the law isn’t always so clear-cut for police. Oregon is a good example.
Getting domestic extremists to abandon their hate-filled ways is labor-intensive but possible, experts say. The Trump administration ended a federal program dealing with domestic terrorism.
Some 71 percent of extremist-related fatalities in the U.S. between 2008 and 2017 were committed by the far right or white-supremacist movements. Islamic extremists were responsible for 26 percent
No, argues the founding director of the John Jay College Center on Terrorism. The FBI definition of terrorism is already “slippery,” and stretching the definition further might threaten civil liberties, he writes.