1/ Each week, we track hate occurring around the country in the Hate Report. This week, we’re highlighting recent incidents of violence linked to racism and bigotry. revealnews.org/blog/the-hate-…
2/ Kansas man Robert Kidwell was arrested for the murder of MeShon Cooper, a black woman. Kidwell’s daughter told @KCStar that he is a white supremacist with a long history of befriending and then attacking black people. kansascity.com/news/local/cri…
3/ “He’s been a monster all his life,” she said of her father. “He is the true definition of evil.”
4/ Murder charges have been filed against John Cowell for the fatal stabbing of Nia Wilson, a black woman, at a CA public transit station. Motive hasn’t been established, but there’s been widespread speculation that hate played a role.
5/ There’s been similar speculation around the murder of a Frederick Taft, a black man who was shot to death in the bathroom of a public CA park during a family reunion. “We all believe it was a hate crime,” Taft’s daughter told @presstelegram. presstelegram.com/2018/07/24/fam…
6/ 25-year old Chad Merrill, who is white, was killed outside a PA bar after defending a black friend from a stranger’s racist harassment. “He was definitely the type of person to create peace,” Merrill’s brother told @CNN . cnn.com/2018/07/24/us/…
7/ Jimmy Matta, the mayor of Burien, Washington, was physically assaulted at a local beer garden by a man who allegedly said, “We’re not going to let you Latino illegals take over our city,” @seattletimes reports. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a…
8/ A 26-year old Hispanic man was stabbed outside a Georgia bar by a pair of white men who called him racist names during the assault. ajc.com/news/crime--la…
9/ Two Illinois men have been charged with hate crimes for assaulting a female family member and her boyfriend. The alleged motive for the attack was because the boyfriend is a Muslim. chicagotribune.com/news/local/bre…
10/ A Muslim street food vendor was attacked on the street in Manhattan. The vendor told @ABC7NY that the assailant has previously been harassing him. abc7ny.com/nypd-investiga…
11/ An Idaho man was hit with hate crime charges for shouting racist and homophobic slurs at a group of children on a trip with their church youth group. advocate.com/crime/2018/7/2…
12/ An IL man was charged with a hate crime after putting a neo-Nazi flyer on a Latino man’s car and unleashing a racist tirade in a Chicago Starbucks. Police found a ventriloquist dummy in his car. The neo-Nazi ventriloquist is now banned from Starbucks. rawstory.com/2018/07/white-…
13/ We never thought we’d ever write a sentence like, “The neo-Nazi ventriloquist is now banned from Starbucks,” but here we are.
14/ If you’ve been the victim of hate, you can tell us about it here. revealnews.org/blog/help-us-d…
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