hate crimes

The FBI on Monday released a hate crimes report for 2021 that it admits is incomplete and which, critics say, vastly undercounts bigotry-based attacks on Blacks, Jews, Asians and members of the LGBTQ community.

As antisemitic crimes continue to rise in New York City and across the country, authorities are discussing how to address and prevent these crimes by holding a summit in Manhattan on this very topic. The message at Monday’s summit was simple: to turn words into action as top community leaders vow to improve security in Jewish communities. Monday’s get-together...

Gus Rosendale reports.

A hate crimes investigation on Long Island is getting assistance from state police after two perps on bikes were observed damaging a Pride flag and shouting slurs, authorities said. Detectives from Suffolk County’s Hate Crimes Unit is investigating the May incident at a home in Patchogue. Video circulated by the police department on Friday shows the two riders pedaling...

The deaths of the four men over the course of several months sparked fear in Muslim communities nationwide.

A Florida woman was indicted on hate crime charges for allegedly pepper-spraying and making anti-Asian statements toward a group of women on a Manhattan street.

Authorities have apprehended the woman they say is behind an anti-Asian assault on four women on a Manhattan street last week. Madeline Barker, of Florida, was arrested Friday on multiple hate crime charges including assault and harassment, the NYPD announced. The 47-year-old woman has been accused of deploying pepper spray at four women and making anti-Asian statements on June 11….

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that they had filed 26 hate crime charges against the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store.

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that they had filed 26 hate crime charges against the gunman suspected of killing 10 people in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store.

NBCLX contributor Michelle Park has avoided the New York subways since March 2020, following a surge in viral hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. Michelle speaks with civil rights attorney and author Qian Julie Wang, and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg. Plus, hear from Michelle Tran, founder of Soar Over Hate, a group that provides protective devices like pepper spray and...

A community meeting is planned Monday night as Dallas police investigate three shootings at Asian-owned businesses as possibly connected and motivated by hate.

Police are looking for a stranger who allegedly whacked a 22-year-old woman with a mop handle multiple times in a possible bias case in Brooklyn earlier this year. The attack happened in late March and though it’s not clear why police are just releasing the details now, they say the suspect is still at large. According to officials, the...

Antisemitic incidents in the United States hit an all-time high in 2021, and New York and New Jersey accounted for nearly 30% of the reported total, the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday. Tracie Strahan reports.

Antisemitic incidents in the United States hit an all-time high in 2021, and New York and New Jersey accounted for nearly 30% of the reported total, the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday. Incidents (vandalism, harassment, assault) were up sharply last year, the ADL said in its annual summary – a function of pandemic restrictions decreasing, but also backlash to Israeli airstrikes…

The 27-year-old allegedly stole a car from one victim and used it to intentionally hit others during a chaotic one-day spree that involved three attempted murder victims who all had one thing in common.

A college campus in New York City is on alert after several students were injured injured in a violent hate-crime spree targeting Asian Americans. At least seven NYU students have been assaulted within the past month in and around Washington Square Park. A group of students, including one of the victims, is now demanding more be done to improve campus…

NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A Brooklyn man punched an Asian American woman in the face in an unprovoked attack and later told police that “Chinese people are not supposed to be in this country,” prosecutors said. Mercel Jackson, 52, was arraigned Thursday on charges including assault, attempted assault as a hate crime and menacing as a hate crime in the Jan. 19 attack, Brooklyn…

Someone is drawing swastikas at some particularly iconic New York City locations.

Police are looking for a man with a limp they say has defaced three sites, including Wall Street’s famed Charging Bull and City Hall, with swastikas in an 11-day span.