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Arson That Killed 8 Horses Investigated as Hate Crime Against Gay Owner
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsFirefighters in rural Ohio are offering a $5,000 reward today for information about who was behind an Easter arson attack that killed eight horses, including a week-old colt, in a blaze being investigated as a hate crime against the animals' gay owner. Brent Whitehouse said he noticed an orange glow coming from the barn near his farmhouse in McConnelsville, Ohio, just before midnight Sunday. He ran out to the barn, but the door jammed -- its hinges likely melted from the fire's heat. "I couldn't get the door open," Whitehouse told the Ohio news website WhizNews.com. "I could still hear the ...
Mobs Leave Charred Corpses, Fear in North Nigeria
By not in system - AOL NewsKADUNA, Nigeria -- The mobs poured into the streets by the thousands in this dusty city separating Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, armed with machetes and poison-tipped arrows to unleash their rage after the oil-rich nation's presidential election. Muslim rioters burned homes, churches and police stations in Kaduna after results showed Nigeria's Christian leader beat his closest Muslim opponent in Saturday's vote. Reprisal attacks by Christians began almost immediately, with one mob allegedly tearing a home apart to look for a Quran to prove the occupants were Muslims before ...
11-Foot Cross Burned Near Mixed-Race Family's Home
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsResidents of an affluent central Californian town are outraged by thieves who stole an 11-foot cross from a church and set it afire near the home of a mixed-race family. The wooden cross was apparently stolen between early February and early March from Saint John's Lutheran Church in Arroyo Grande. It was torched early Friday in a vacant lot near the bedroom window of a 19-year-old woman, who saw the cross engulfed in flames and called authorities, according to news reports. The teen's mother told KSBY-TV that the family was the victim of racism because she is white, her husband is black and ...
Was Transgender Female's Slaying a Hate Crime?
By David Lohr - AOL NewsState and federal officials are investigating the slaying of a transgender female in Arkansas who was shot and dragged several hundred feet by a vehicle earlier this week. "We are trying to determine if the individual's federal civil rights were violated," Special Agent Steve Frazier from Little Rock's FBI office told AOL News. "Part of the civil rights statutes does include hate crimes, and we will be looking at that as a possibility, but right now it is open as a federal civil rights investigation." The 25-year-old was born a man named Marcal Camero Tye but had been living as a woman for ...
Split Verdict for Ex-Cops Accused of Covering Up Immigrant's Beating Death
By David Lohr - AOL NewsA federal jury in Pennsylvania has returned a split verdict in the case of three former police officers accused of trying to cover up the beating death of a Mexican illegal immigrant by white high school football players. All three men were acquitted of conspiracy to obstruct a federal investigation, but former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor was convicted of filing a false report to the FBI about the investigation into the death of Luis Ramirez. He could face up to 20 years in prison. "A community must be able to rely on its law enforcement officers to be honest and truthful," said ...
Harvard: Urine on Gay Books Was Accident, Not Hate Crime
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- Those gay-themed books that were soaked with urine at a Harvard College library were not a hate crime after all, the school says, but a simple accident caused by a staffer who spilled a bottle of liquid waste on 36 tomes. Why a bottle of urine was sitting on a library shelf in the first place has yet to be explained. "This incident was initially reported as vandalism and characterized as a hate crime," Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, wrote Monday on the university's website. "We have learned this morning that the books, while indeed damaged, were damaged by our own ...
Three Men Charged With Branding Swastika on Navajo
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FARMINGTON, N.M. (Nov. 29) - Three friends had just finished their shifts at a McDonald's when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a customer: They allegedly shaped a coat hanger into a swastika, placed it on a heated stove and branded the symbol on the arm of the mentally disabled Navajo man. Authorities say they then shaved a swastika on the back of the 22-year-old victim's head and used markers to scrawl messages and images on his body, including "KKK," ''White Power," a pentagram and a graphic image of a penis. Farmington Police / AP This photo shows the arm of a ...
White Man Gets 9 Years for Torching African-American Church
By Allan Lengel - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- A white man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for burning down a predominately African-American church in Springfield, Mass., the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election. Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael A. Ponsor in Springfield for the 2008 burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ. The predominately African-American church was under construction and 75 percent complete when it was torched, the Justice Department said. In addition to the prison term, Haskell must pay a $7,500 fine and $1.7 million in restitution, ...
Glenn Beck Condemns Anti-Gay Attacks in New York [VIDEO]
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 14) -- New York City officials aren't the only ones to express their shock, dismay, outrage and disgust with a series of brutal anti-gay attacks police say were perpetrated by 10 street gang members last week (who have since been arrested and charged with hate crimes). In fact, one of the most recent strongest voices of condemnation has been none other than that of Fox News host Glenn Beck. On his show Wednesday night, Beck deliberately sidestepped what he said was "the main story of the day," the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners, to segue into a long rumination on the ...
Police: 7 Arrested in Brutal Anti-Gay Attacks in NYC
By Carl Franzen - AOL NewsNEW YORK (Oct. 8) -- Seven suspected members of a Bronx, N.Y., street gang have been arrested and charged with anti-gay hate crimes for sadistic sexual attacks on two 17-year-old boys, including one aspiring gang member, and a 30-year-old man, police say. The beatings -- which involved two episodes of sodomy, with a broom handle and bat, respectively -- were reportedly sparked after the suspects cornered the teen who wanted to join their gang (who they had already beat as a part of an initiation ritual) and tortured him further into revealing that he and the other teen had engaged in gay sex ...
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