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Hate crimes in the U.S. in 2020 reached their highest level in the last 12 years, with Black and Asian victims seeing a surge in assaults, according to FBI data. There were 7,759 total hate crimes reported in 2020, a 6 percent increase from 2019. Hate crimes against Black people rose from 1,972 to 2,755 in 2020, while the number of attacks toward Asians rose from 161 in 2019 to 274 in 2020, according to FBI data.

Police are painting rainbows on the side of their squad cars in a bid to beat online hate crimes and 'give confidence' to the LGBT+ community. Critics have said forces should be focusing on 'real' issues such as knife crime and that the colourful cars might seem less intimidating to the public. The cost of painting the cars, described as 'hate crime cars', is 'quite minimal' but are believed to give a 'huge impact' on the community. Deputy chief constable Julie Cooke said: 'Cars are there in the communities on normal policing patrol just to show the community that we...

My mother was a hypocrite. She wasn’t a bad person. God knows she did her best with what she was given, but nevertheless, she was a hypocrite. I harbored hatred in my heart toward her because of that, and displayed it in my speech and actions. To this day, I still see that I am not yet over my hatred for hypocrites. It appears I’ve transferred my hatred of my mother to hypocrites I see and know. I say it knowing full well that no grown man should hate his mother or hate anyone, for that matter. I’m certainly not...

The woman arrested Saturday for nearly shoving a 22-year-old man onto the subway tracks at Times Square has been booked seven times since June 25, police sources said — including for several assaults on mass transit. Briana Randolph allegedly came up from behind her victim at around 8 a.m. Saturday on the northbound NQR train platform at 42nd Street and Broadway and pushed him for no reason, according to police. The attack could be seen on surveillance video and Randolph was arrested at 34th Street-Herald Square station about eight hours later, police said. *** Randolph has been arrested twenty times...

Kathy Griffin is back, again reminding the population about her time in the limelight a few months ago when she posed with fake, bloodied head of President Trump. Rather than rolling with her apology and moving on with her life, Kathy has decided to again revert to this angry spectacle by taking back her apology for the photo. In an interview with the BBC World News program HardTalk, Griffin took back her previous apology for the photo “1,000 percent.” During the interview, Griffin made excuses for the photo by comparing it to her past vulgarity: I’ve done many shocking things....

Kathy Griffin revealed she has lung cancer despite “never” smoking and will be undergoing surgery to have half of her left lung removed. The comedian announced the news Monday morning in a lengthy note posted to social media, sharing that the cancer is stage 1 and “contained.” “I’ve got to tell you guys something. I have cancer. I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed,” she began her letter on social media. “Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked! The doctors are very optimistic as it is stage one and contained...

Hate crimes documented by police disproportionately list Black people as attackers, according to a new report by several civil rights groups for better protections under hate crime laws. Released Wednesday, the report is a comprehensive national review of hate crime laws that shows where laws variate. It also cited widespread flaws in data collection and reporting. Though the majority of hate crimes in the U.S. are committed by white people, motivated by racial or ethnic bias, the crimes disproportionately reported Black Americans as the attackers. ...

Critical Race Theory and its related philosophies may push independent suburban voters away from Democrats, according to a Politico report Monday. Politico highlighted California mother Elina Kaplan: An immigrant who came to the United States from the Soviet Union, she is a registered Democrat from San Mateo County, Calif. And she’s alarmed over her state’s new model ethnic studies curriculum, which cites critical race theory as a “key theoretical framework and pedagogy.” “I firmly believe that if the vast majority of Californians and Americans knew about this, and about the content of this type of curriculum, this would not be...

A Detroit woman said she was temporarily banished from Facebook for “hate speech” after participating in a time-honored tradition: commenting on a meme labeling the opposite sex as “dumb.” “At first I thought it was a joke [and] I’m like yeah right I’m blocked … what?” Candace King told Fox News of her social media timeout, which allegedly occurred after she participated in a thread entitled “why men are so dumb.”

Central Connecticut State University history professor Jay Bergman tried to convince his state's public schools to exclude the 1619 Project from their history curricula, questioning its sweeping claims that "white racism" drove America's independence from Britain. At least one superintendent among more than 200 he contacted objected to Bergman's efforts, as did several of his history colleagues and other CCSU faculty. His department chair scolded Bergman for using his university email address and affiliation, and another professor demanded his formal censure, according to an investigation by NBC Connecticut. While CCSU and the state university higher education system declined to punish...

Matthew Spalding, vice president of Washington Operations at Hillsdale College, invited parents and educators to combat left-wing revisionist history with his school’s K-12 “1776 curriculum.” “It’s a full curriculum, 2000 pages,” Spalding said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “It’s 85 lessons. It’s a full set. It’s free to anybody who wants to use it: homeschoolers, private schools, public schools … states if they want to use it. It’s absolutely free to anybody who wants it.” Spalding described Hillsdale College’s 1776 history program as a corrective against neo-Marxist “identity politics” and “critical race theory”...

What if you found out your child was being taught in school that the police should be “reformed, transformed or abolished”? That Georgia’s new election laws that seek to restore election fairness and prevent fraud instead “restrict and suppress voting across the state”? Or that states must out of fairness allow transgender males to compete in girls and women’s sports? What if your four-year-old daughter was reading books suggesting that she may actually be a lesbian? These are just some of the “lesson plans” in an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) program called “No Place for Hate” (NPFH) that is being taught...

In a fiery Fourth of July Facebook post, Utah’s Black Lives Matter Chapter declared the American flag "a symbol of hatred." "When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around," the post reads. "When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred." Chapter founder Lex...

A 100-strong Black Lives Matter mob in Mount Laurel, an edge city suburb of Philadelphia, surrounded a man’s home on Monday after an out-of-context video of him going on a racist rant during a heated dispute with his neighbors went viral on social media. The video cut out the beginning of the dispute so it wasn’t clear what the man, later identified as 45-year-old Edward Cagney Mathews, was so angry about. The video shows Mathews was first pushed by his neighbor after getting up in his face. After police eventually showed up, the mob was filmed attacking Mathews with a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached a stage where infections can now be controlled and prevented by vaccinations. Whether it’s Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, more and more New Yorkers are getting vaccinated so that we can protect each other, and especially protect vulnerable populations. It’s also becoming more apparent that being able to prove your vaccination status will be a useful thing going forward. Being able to prove that you’re fully vaccinated could become an essential way of living and being able to live a life of normality, like before the pandemic. The ImmunaBand Vaccination Band is a useful...

A disturbing story emerged back in March but crucial information about the story is still ignored by the MSM. Two teens in Rochester, New York set a 53-year-old mentally ill man on fire, ultimately killing him. The Rochester teenagers who were accused of setting the 53-year-old man on fire are now facing murder charges after the victim died from his injuries. The boys — ages 14 and 16 — were initially arrested and charged with arson and assault on after allegedly pouring a flammable liquid on Steven Amenhauser and lighting him on fire in his home. Those charges have now...

Mandatory Critical Race Theory (CRT) training materials for one of Iowa’s largest school districts classifies “Make America Great Again” as a form of ‘white supremacy,’ according to leaked documents obtained by Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson. Also listed as examples of white supremacy (both ‘overt’ and ‘covert’) are; Columbus Day, American immigration law, the belief that America is “post racial,” and mass incarceration. Johnson reports that hundreds of educators have been forced to to participate in the training, which will be taught to children across the district next semester. Teachers of Iowa are being INSTRUCTED to classify the vast majority...

Stories across Illinois and most of America now report furious parents standing up against what’s bundled under the term “Critical Race Theory,” or CRT, widely taught in K-12 schools. Those who know what CRT is don’t like it. A new Economist/YouGov poll found opposition beating support by 58% to 38%. And opponents feel strongly. Those with “very unfavorable” views of CRT outnumber those with “very favorable” views” by 53% to 25%. Opposition is even more intense when specific tenets of CRT are polled. What is CRT? Why the intense opposition? Does only the “right wing” oppose its teachings, as Gov....

Video footage has caught the moment an aggressive altercation broke out between a female customer and McDonald's employees over mixing up a slushie. The woman became enraged and assaulted staff when she was told that she could not mix flavors together in her slushie drink.

McDonald’s workers were filmed being attacked by a customer after she allegedly tried to fill up a water cup with a free soda but wasn’t allowed to. The brawl was posted on Twitter, and there are allegations that the fight started when the customer tried to put soda in a free water cup. The video shows the three women arguing before the fight breaks out. The second piece of footage shows the fight breaking out after the customer hurls iced water at the employee. As the customer storms toward the staff member, she received instant justice and finally got a...