hate crimes

He used racial slurs as he stabbed the 17-year-old girl multiple times at a North Highland Avenue apartment complex in Ossining where he lived; the two had never met each other before

A Westchester man will spend 15 years in prison after admitting that he stabbed a 15-year-old Black girl while yelling racist slurs at her. Marc Santia reports.

A Brooklyn man has been convicted on hate-crime charges for a brutal 2018 attack on a Jewish man walking home from his synagogue. A jury found James Vincent, 40, guilty of strangulation as a hate crime and assault as a hate crime, among other charges. He faces up to 15 years in prison at his December sentencing. On April 21,…

A 36-year-old Westchester County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to 14 felony charges, including attempted murder as a hate crime, for repeatedly stabbing a 17-year-old Black girl he didn’t know who happened to be visiting family in the apartment complex where the defendant lived last year, officials say. Robert McCallion faces up to 25 years in state prison at sentencing in…

A former prosecutor in Georgia was indicted on charges of violating her oath of office and obstructing a police officer in the probe of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing.

The number of reported hate crimes nationwide against Asian and Black people sharply increased in 2020, according to new FBI data released Monday.

The FBI in Newark is embarking on a campaign to raise awareness about its efforts to prosecute hate crimes. George Crouch Jr., special agent in charge of the Newark division, said Wednesday that from August to November, “Protecting Our Communities Together” messages will be displayed on New Jersey Transit buses and trains and at rail stations, as well as on…

“You woke up every day, you’re at war with the world,” says former Nazi Jeff Schoep. In this video from NBCLX contributor Bart Vandever, Schoep and hate crime survivor Josh Stepakoff unpack why hate and radicalism permeate society today and their effects.

A coalition of civil rights groups releasing a report on hate crime laws says the protections against bias-motivated violence are inconsistent and lack uniformity nationally

A 25-year-old woman suspected in four separate attacks on people of Asian descent in Queens faces hate crime charges

A come-from-behind attack of a 41-year-old man walking to a synagogue in Brooklyn on Friday morning has grabbed the attention of the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force. Police say the victim was walking on New York Avenue around 5:45 a.m. Friday when he was attacked by two unidentified men from behind. The two suspects approached and “repeatedly punched him in…

Police are looking for a man they say punched a 25-year-old wearing traditional Jewish garb, then broke off a piece of furniture and threw it at him in what they are investigating as an apparent hate crime in Brooklyn this week. The stranger approached the victim on Martin Luther King Jr. Place shortly after 11:30 a.m. Monday, made an anti-Jewish…

Police are looking for a man they say punched a 25-year-old wearing traditional Jewish garb, then broke off a piece of furniture and threw it at him in what they are investigating as an apparent Brooklyn hate crime.

A 24-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on charges of gang assault, assault and reckless endangerment as hate crimes in a chaotic May incident in Times Square that left a 55-year-old woman burned, police said Wednesday. The suspect, Mohammed Othman, had been riding in the back of a pickup truck on West 47th Street around 6 p.m. on May…

A 29-year-old subway rider was stabbed twice — once in the chest, once in the torso — at New York City’s Penn Station Monday by a belligerent straphanger who targeted him in an anti-gay rant on a No. 2 train, authorities say. The victim was on the train around 3:30 a.m. A man sitting across from him was shouting anti-gay…

Outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey, as the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering the 46-year-old father of five awaited his sentencing fate. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey, as the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering the 46-year-old father of five awaited his sentencing fate. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Outrage mounted Friday over vandalism to newly unveiled George Floyd statues in Brooklyn and Newark, New Jersey, as the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering the 46-year-old father of five was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison — a punishment that some didn’t believe was harsh enough. Ex-cop Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of second-degree unintentional...

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after a statue of George Floyd in Flatbush was painted black overnight by vandals.NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force says it is investigating vandalism to a George Floyd statue in Brooklyn, as a similar statue in New Jersey was also defaced overnight. The vandalism to the Flatbush statue, which was unveiled on Flatbush Avenue last weekend amid the city’s Juneteenth celebrations, was discovered Thursday morning, the department said. Much of it had...