Tag: hate crime

UK Police Arrest 11 Over Racist Comments on Euro 2020 Footballers

Eleven people have been arrested so far as a result of a hate crime investigation into racist comments directed at a number of black England players after the Euro 2020 final, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said on Thursday. Nine men and one woman, aged between 18 and 63, were arrested on suspicion of…


19-Year-Old Charged With Hate Crime for Destroying ‘Back the Blue’ Sign as Officer Issues Speeding Ticket

A 19-year-old woman was arrested and charged with a hate crime last week for allegedly destroying on a “Back the Blue” sign during a speeding incident in Garfield, Utah. The woman was identified as Lauren Gibson, a Californian college student who was heading back home with a group of friends last week from a camping trip…


Public ‘Fed up of Virtue-Signalling Police Officers’: New Manchester Police Chief

Police impartiality is at risk when officers make gestures such as “taking the knee,” the new police chief in Greater Manchester has said. Stephen Watson, the new chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), told The Telegraph on Sunday that he thought the public is “fed up of virtue-signalling police officers when they’d really rather…


COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act Passes Congress, Heads to Biden’s Desk

The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, a measure intended to address hate incidents against Asian Americans amid the CCP virus pandemic, passed a final vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, heading to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature. The proposed legislation passed by a vote of 364-62 in the Democrat-majority chamber. All no votes were…


Democrats Call on Congress to Pass Legislation Addressing Hate Crimes Targeting Asians

Democrats are calling on Congress to pass hate crime bill that aims to combat crimes that have targeted Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders since the pandemic began. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Reps. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) held a press conference…


KKK Flyers Spread in Huntington Beach, Prompting Anti-Racism Resolutions

City councilmembers in Huntington Beach, California, have passed two new resolutions against racism after flyers promoting a group called the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) were deposited on lawns in the city over Easter weekend. The flyers showed a white-hooded figure, had the group’s name printed on them, and contained text similar to that on the group’s website regarding its ideology. The flyers also had…


Opinion: Weaponizing Race and Gender

Commentary Perhaps the most frightening thing happening in America is the weaponizing of race and gender. We need to be wary, because this is a war for power. This is a war to deny American citizens our Constitutional rights and to create a totalitarian society controlled by the woke left. We must not allow this…


Asian Americans Rarely, Though Increasingly, Face Hate Crimes

Asian Americans have increasingly become the victims of hate crimes because of their ancestry in recent years but the incidents remain rare, according to police statistics. There were 158 anti-Asian hate crimes reported in 2019 by police agencies to the FBI, an increase from 148 the year before. In 16 of the country’s largest cities, there was…


Asians Rarely, Though Increasingly Face Hate Crimes

Americans have been targeted for their Asian ancestry more often in recent years but the incidents remain rare. There were 158 anti-Asian hate crimes reported in 2019 by police agencies to the FBI, up from 148 the year before. The FBI won’t release its 2020 data until the fall but in 16 of the country’s…


UK Police Ordered to Record Misogyny as ‘Hate Crime’

The UK government will instruct all police forces in England and Wales to record suspected misogyny as a “hate crime” in the aftermaths of the murder of Sarah Everard earlier this month. Home Office Minister Baroness Williams made the announcement on Wednesday in the House of Lords during a debate on an amendment to the…