Hate Crimes – Page 18 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

Hate violence poses a serious threat to California communities. In every region of the state, incidents have occurred in which racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities have been harassed, intimidated, assaulted and even murdered. In some communities, acts motivated by bigotry have sparked widespread community disruption.

Hate crimes up 15% in L.A. County

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 24th, 2012|Hate Crimes|

After three years of steady decline, hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose 15% last year, due in part to an increase in white supremacist and street gang incidents, officials will report Wednesday.

Read more in the Los Angeles TImes: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hate-crime-20121024,0,4110244.story

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Teaching tolerance helps fight hate (features CAHRO’s Rusty Kennedy)

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:02+00:00 October 22nd, 2012|Hate Crimes, Immigration|

Tattoos tell stories, whether on the arm of a Holocaust survivor or a white supremacist.

The faded black number on Ester Bershtel’s left arm testifies to one woman’s strength to escape the horrors of Auschwitz.

Read more in The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/hate-374986-white-kennedy.html

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Amish Sect Leader and Followers Guilty of Hate Crimes

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:28:05+00:00 September 21st, 2012|Hate Crimes|

Samuel Mullet Sr., the domineering leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 of his followers were convicted on Thursday in Cleveland of federal conspiracy and hate crimes for a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks last fall that spread fear through the Amish of eastern Ohio….

Marines accused of assaulting man outside gay bar in Long Beach

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:25+00:00 September 6th, 2012|Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Four U.S. Marines face possible assault and hate crime charges in connection with the Labor Day weekend beating of a man outside a gay bar in Long Beach, authorities said Wednesday.

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Orange County hate crimes rise 14%

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:26+00:00 August 31st, 2012|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

The slurs rang out each time he left or came home to the south Orange County condo he shared with his partner, reaching the point where he thought about just giving up and moving.

“They were destroying my life … with the worst experience of my life,” said the Laguna Niguel resident, who asked to go

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After Attacks, Israeli Schools Confront Hate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:26+00:00 August 28th, 2012|Hate Crimes|

JERUSALEM — Tamer Jbarah, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who speaks accentless Hebrew after years in a bilingual school that is about half Jewish, said he was not at all surprised when a mob of Jewish teenagers beat an Arab teenager unconscious this month while hundreds watched and did nothing to help.

Young Israelis Held in Attack on Arabs

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:27+00:00 August 21st, 2012|Hate Crimes, Intergroup Relations|

JERUSALEM — Seven Israeli teenagers were in custody on Monday, accused of what a police official and several witnesses described as an attempted lynching of several Palestinian youths, laying bare the undercurrent of tension in this ethnically mixed but politically divided city. A 15-year-old suspect standing outside court said, “For my part he can die,

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Music Style Is Called Supremacist Recruiting Tool

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:28+00:00 August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

MILWAUKEE — The shooting rampage by an avowed white supremacist that killed six people at a suburban Sikh Temple near here came at a time of both growth and disarray in the supremacist movement.

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Sikh temple shooter seems to have followed ‘lone wolf’ path, quotes CAHRO board member Brian Levin

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:28+00:00 August 9th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

Law enforcement has pored through more than 100 leads following the shootings that left six people dead at a Sikh temple this week, trying to determine whether gunman Wade Michael Page acted alone or was part of a group bent on carrying out acts of neo-Nazi violence.

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Wisconsin Killer Fed and Was Fueled by Hate-Driven Music

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:29:28+00:00 August 7th, 2012|Extremism, Hate Crimes|

His music, Wade M. Page once said, was about “how the value of human life has been degraded by tyranny.”

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