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A man at a Minneapolis town hall hosted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., confronted her Tuesday night and tried to spray her with a substance before he was removed from the venue. Omar, who has faced a barrage of near-daily attacks from President Donald Trump, had called for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished and for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment moments before the man lunged toward her.

lhan Omar was attacked by a man who yelled that she 'should resign' before spraying an unknown liquid at the Minnesota Congresswoman. Omar, who has often feuded with Donald Trump and many other members of the conservative movement, was speaking at a town hall where she called out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The event was Omar's first since the fatal ICE shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, as well as the massive liberal protest movement in response to ICE's presence in the city. 'DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment,' Omar said to applause...

Judge Regina M. Rodriguez (D. Colo.) decided yesterday in U.S. v. Blackcloud; for more on the case, see this November 2024 press release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Colorado: The U.S.Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that Derrick Bernard Jr., 35, [Ashley] Blackcloud, 40, and Deanna West,38, were indicted by a federal grand jury for maliciously conveying false information about a threat made by means of fire: a burning cross in front of a campaign sign defaced with a racial slur. According to the indictment, the three defendants were charged for their alleged roles in a conspiracy...

Yuriana Julia “Juli” Pelaez Calderon is an illegal alien who lives in Los Angeles. On June 30, her family and their lawyers held a press conference at which they told a horrifying story: Calderon’s family and attorneys held a press conference on June 30, saying armed men ambushed her in two unmarked trucks at a Jack in the Box restaurant parking lot in downtown Los Angeles. Her family claimed that the men brought Calderon to San Ysidro, where “she was presented to [a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement] staffer” and “presented with voluntary self-deportation paperwork,” according to officials. The family’s...

Nashville Police said a noose was found at the construction site of the Tennessee Titans' new stadium, according to ESPN. The stadium is scheduled to open for the 2027 season, but work has reportedly been halted for an investigation. "This week, a racist and hateful symbol was discovered on our site. There is no place for hate or racism in our workplace," the Tennessee Builders Alliance, which is leading the construction, said in a statement. "We reported the incident to law enforcement, suspended work and launched an investigation."

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (KTRK) -- A man who alleged a hate crime at his property in 2023 has been detained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Agents with the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested Mario Roberson Thursday morning. Roberson is facing twelve charges linked to a June 2023 deadly arson at his rental property in Huntsville, and could possibly spend his life in prison. ABC13 first reported on Roberson in May 2023 after he claimed racist graffiti had been spray-painted on the home. He implied alleged racism in the neighborhood's HOA was to blame for the incident,...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A federal trial started in Denver on Monday for two people accused of staging a burning cross and defacing a campaign sign to allegedly boost attention around a then-candidate’s race for office. Leading up to the 2023 Colorado Springs mayoral election, a photo circulated showing a racial slur written across a campaign sign for Yemi Mobolade, and a burning cross placed in front. Federal prosecutors charged three suspects, saying they each had roles in staging the scene to look like a hate crime in order to gain support for Mobolade, who is now the city’s...

A Brooklyn woman said she was left terrified after being chased and stoned by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her for an anti-Israeli protestor. The woman, who remained anonymous over fears for her safety, told the Associated Press she was afraid for her life when she was set upon by the mob on Thursday night near the global headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The chaos unfolded after Israel's hardline security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir gave a speech at the headquarters, which was met with furious protests outside the building. One other woman was reportedly left bloodied in the...

LaTarsha Brown, 42, was charged with making false reports and tampering with or fabricating evidence Brown reported finding a noose on her desk at City Hall on January 10 All employees agreed to provide DNA samples except for Brown Brown initially cooperated with the investigation but later asked for it to be stopped The noose was sent for DNA testing on January 14 A search warrant for Brown's DNA was ex*cuted on January 24 and submitted for comparison State police report was released on March 10 Brown's DNA matched swabs of the outer surface and inner-knotted portion of the noose...

Another day, another campus hate crime hoax. This time it is at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. “Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Campus Safety officers and the Memphis Police Department, the investigation into the hate crime that occurred recently on our campus has ended with the identification of the perpetrator and the conclusion this incident was fabricated,” Rhodes College told The College Fix via email on Thursday. “This individual has admitted responsibility,” the media team told The Fix. “This matter has caused enormous pain to our community, and we are taking the appropriate steps to hold this individual...

Nine attackers were found guilty of raping a girl in a Hamburg city park ... A woman has been given a prison sentence in Germany for making 'harmful comments' towards a gang-rapist after learning of his heinous crime. The man was one of nine attackers who were found guilty of brutally raping a 15-year-old girl in a city park in Hamburg - with all but one of the convicted men and teenagers allowed to walk free. Anger grew online and his name and number were leaked - with a 20-year-old woman among those who messaged him to share their disgust...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Three people are now facing federal charges for allegedly staging a hate crime during the Colorado Springs mayoral race in 2023. In the early morning hours of April 23, 2023, a burning cross in front a campaign sign for then-candidate Yemi Mobolade was found at the intersection of Union and Fillmore. The sign had been defaced with a racial slur. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado (USAOC) now says the entire scene was a hoax, intended to make citizens think that there was a group of racists in Colorado Springs strongly opposed to...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University police have received reports from Bloomington students who are receiving racist text messages that invoke slavery and plantation assignments, sent by an unknown person. IUPD was contacted on Wednesday by an IU Bloomington student who received a text message with what they described as “racially-biased content.” The student also advised that multiple other classmates have received similar texts.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — A Gettysburg College student is no longer enrolled at the college amid an investigation into a racial slur being scratched into another student’s body. Last week, the college confirmed that a slur had been scratched into the student’s body with a plastic or ceramic tool and that those involved were not participating in swim team activities.

A pretty dramatic story out of Baltimore today which reveals what may be the first hate hoax perpetrated with the help of artificial intelligence. The principal of Pikesville High School, Eric Eiswert, was accused in January of making blatantly racist comments behind closed doors after an inflammatory audio file was posted on a popular Instagram account.In the recording, the person speaking refers to “ungrateful Black kids who can’t test their way out of a paper bag.”The speaker goes on to question how hard it is to get those students to meet grade-level expectations. He uses names of people who appear...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (KUTV) — Idaho leaders have responded to allegations of racism toward University of Utah women's basketball players while they were staying in Coeur d'Alene for the NCAA Tournament. Mayor Jim Hammond, Police Chief Lee White and representatives with the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations were among speakers at Tuesday's press conference.

Racist and hateful graffiti including multiple swastikas and a school-shooting threat were found on the wall of an elite Manhattan high school last week, authorities said Monday. The disturbing graffiti included the messages “I Hate Blacks” and “I will shoot up the school,” cops said. They were found on a restroom stall at The Beacon School on West 44th Street near 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen on Thursday, cops said. The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the troubling vandalism, and no arrests had been made by Monday evening, police confirmed.

A black family living in Los Angeles was horrified to discover their Ford Mustang defaced with a vile racial slur and swastikas over the holidays. Reginald Scott, who has lived in the San Pedro neighborhood for 20 years, told the station KTLA that his sports car was allegedly vandalized sometime between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The unidentified alleged hatemonger used black spray paint to scrawl the words “Merry Christmas -----” in huge letters across the right side of the red Mustang. Swastikas were painted on the car’s bumper and its tires were also slashed.

An Ohio man has been detained for reportedly lying to police officers about being the “victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.” According to authorities, 20-year-old Hesham Ayyad is facing charges for allegedly lying about how he “suffered injuries” for being the “victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.” On October 22nd, Ayyad was taken to the hospital after claiming to police officers that he had been struck by a vehicle in a “racially motivated” assault. Ayyad claimed to the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Cleveland) that a male driver had “yelled anti-Palestinian insults” at him and then proceeded...

Jussie Smollett's lawyers told an Illinois appellate court Tuesday it should toss the former “Empire” actor’s convictions for staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to Chicago police, arguing that anger over the case led to properly dismissed charges being improperly restored. Smollett, foregoing his usual three-piece suits in favor of a casual beige jacket and blue jeans, slipped into court for the hour-long oral arguments Tuesday and sat on spectator benches. He seemed to listen intently, leaning forward to follow the debate before the three-judge panel. Smollett, 41, didn't speak to reporters...