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Hate Crime

Police say a Columbia football player threatened another student and called him racial slurs. (Courtesy: NBC New York)

Columbia U. football player charged with hate crime

Shimon Prokupecz and Pei-Sze Cheng, NBC New York
NBC New York - A Columbia University football player is charged with a hate crime after allegedly threatening another student and calling him Asian slurs.
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Taxi driver Mohamed Salim (Video still via NBC Washington)

Taxi driver claims he was attacked because he is Muslim

Richard Jordan, NBC Washington
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a taxi driver who says he was targeted for attack because he is Muslim want to pursue hate crime charges. News4's Richard Jordan reports...
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(Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Study finds nearly 2 in 3 hate crimes unreported

Pete Yost, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks express doubt that police can or will help.
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In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 photo released by the Coahoma County (Miss.) Sheriff's Office, Lawrence Reed, 22, poses or a portrait.(AP Photo/Coahoma County (Miss.) Sheriff's Office)/This Jan. 20, 2007 photo shows Marco McMillian, 34, a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Miss., who was found dead on the Mississippi River levee Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 between Sherard and Rena Lara, Miss.(AP Photo/The Clarksdale Press Register, Troy Catchings)

FBI monitoring investigation of Miss. candidate's death

Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The FBI said Wednesday that it has been monitoring the state investigation into the death of an openly gay mayoral candidate in Mississippi, but the agency didn't indicate it had opened its own investigation...
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Marco Millian, 34, was widely noted as one of the first openly gay candidates for public office in Mississippi. (Photo/marcomcmillian.com)

Congressman asks FBI to review candidate death

Emily Wagster Pettus and Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A Mississippi congressman on Tuesday asked the FBI to review the slaying of an openly gay mayoral candidate to determine if any federal laws might have been violated...
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This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Linda Weston (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)

Hate crime, murder alleged in Philly basement case

Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A paroled killer targeted mentally disabled adults in a scheme to steal their Social Security benefits, confining them like 'zoo animals'...
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New Holy Deliverance Outreach Ministry (WDBJ)

Virginia teen pleads guilty to setting black church on fire

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - On Tuesday morning a Virginia teen admitted in court to setting a church with predominantly black congregation church, according to WDBJ...
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Mugshot of Derek Shrout

White supremacist's high school threat thwarted

Brittany Tom
theGRIO REPORT - A Seale, Alabama teacher made a startling discovery this past week, that may have saved the lives of students and teachers at Russell County High School...
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Pellet Gun Video (WFLA)

Man shouting racial slurs repeatedly shoots victim with pellet gun

WFLA, Josh Green
VIDEO - A 25-year-old man was charged early Friday with shooting another man with a pellet gun in the parking lot of a Lutz, Florida Walmart in what deputies have described as a hate crime...
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6th Miss. man pleads guilty in attacks on blacks

Jack Elliott, Jr, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A sixth man has pleaded guilty in connection with racially motivated attacks by young whites against blacks in Jackson....
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