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Preferred narrative victim of hate crime
70-year-old man charged after anti-Asian hate-motivated assault in Markham: police
Parviz Almassi Gouran, a Markham resident, has since been charged with assault.
Does hate crime no longer matter?
Two shocking attacks allegedly carried out by Muslims have not caused a storm. We need to talk about why.
Imagine if footage emerged showing a white man attacking people in a Muslim-populated part of town. Imagine if CCTV images showed the man punching a visibly Muslim elderly man in the face without provocation. Imagine if someone’s dashcam then captured this same bloke assaulting a Muslim child.
New FBI Initiative Will Put “Hate Crime” Quotas On Local Law Enforcement
The Department of Justice and the FBI have a message for local police departments: start charging more white people with hate crimes or invite an investigation.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta told an assembly of FBI agents yesterday that they are now tasked with hounding police departments in their district if they do not register any “hate crimes.”
Woman busted for anti-Asian assault spree in Queens … preferred narrative hardest hit
A woman was arrested Thursday for an alleged anti-Asian, hate-driven assault spree that left four people injured over the course of several months in Queens, police said.
Maricia Bell, 25, is accused of attacking three women — ages 75, 63, and 34 — and a 23-year-old man in four separate incidents in the borough beginning on May 23, according to police.
Man gets ‘racial hatred’ police record – for whistling the Bob The Builder theme tune at his neighbour
A man has been landed with a police record for ‘racial hatred’ for whistling the Bob The Builder theme tune at his neighbour.
… Few other details about the ‘crime’ are known, but it is just one of the bizarre cases unearthed by an investigation into the controversial practice of recording ‘hate incidents’ even if no law has been broken.
Others include a swimming teacher in West Yorkshire given a police record after a child’s mother claimed her son had been allowed to bang his head against the side of the pool ‘due to his ethnicity’, and a gay man who alleged he had been ripped off by a drug dealer because of his sexuality.
More Asian Hate Crime
It’s an epidemic!
California cops probing ‘horrific’ graffiti on MLK statue as hate crime
Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia said the likeness of the civil rights icon at Martin Luther King Jr. Park was defaced over the July Fourth holiday weekend.
“The LBPD are investigating this as a hate crime and we are working to catch whoever committed this awful act,” Garcia tweeted Monday. “Our MLK statue is a symbol of hope and justice for the community. This hate and desecration has no place in our city.”
“I’m Puerto Rican. I’m, like, a woman of colour,” she said.
US woman charged with hate crime after wrongly accusing black teenager
NYPD opens hate crime investigation into vandalism of George Floyd statue at de Blasio’s orders
The police say they are investigating spray paint found on the statue of George Floyd in Brooklyn as a hate crime, according to NBC News. Police say the statue was defaced with the website of “Patriot Front” spray painted in black across its face.
Patriot Front has been labeled by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Centre as “a white nationalist hate group” due to its connections to the Charlottetown “Unite the Right” rally and other incidents.
Two teens arrested for allegedly burning PRIDE flag
An investigation started after a video surfaced which shows a PRIDE flag in flames on the ground in what is believed to be in Mississauga.
Red swastika spray-painted on Edmonton mosque
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, one of Canada’s largest Muslim communities, took to social media posting images showing the Baitul Hadi Mosque with a spray-painted image of the Nazi symbol.
American extremism is infiltrating Canada – and there’s no easy fix
In Canada, hate crimes have shot up, anti-Asian attacks have multiplied. Six mosque worshippers were killed in Quebec City in 2017 by a man who was motivated by the American far right. There was the horrid hate crime Sunday in London, Ont., where a Muslim family was run over and killed. Whether the accused was influenced by racist groups is unknown.
Canada to crack down on online extremism in wake of London attack, minister says
Canada will soon unveil measures to crack down on online extremism following the killing of a Muslim family, a crime that police said was inspired by hate, a government minister said on Wednesday.
Justin Trudeau, federal leaders commit to fighting hate in wake of attack on Muslim family in London, Ont.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called the attack that killed four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., a terrorist attack motivated by hatred.
Trudeau said hate is often fuelled by small actions that can turn into “ugly” trends — and real violence.
Jagmeet Singh goes right off the deep-end – “The reality is, our Canada is a palace of racism, of violence, of genocide of Indigenous people. And our Canada is a place where Muslims are not safe.”