#hate-crimes

#hate-crimes

SACRAMENTO - An alleged leader of a white supremacist transnational terrorist group called the Terrorgram Collective has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to solicit hate crimes, signing an agreement that admits the group was plotting to start a race war with the hopes of collapsing "government and society." Dante Iacoviello pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Sept. 26, just two weeks after he was charged.

Offline, there has been a surge of reported hate crimes and book bans, alongside a wave of government and legislative actions targeting LGBTQ+ rights (with a focus on trans people). Online, LGBTQ+ individuals face coordinated harassment campaigns, a rollback of digital protections, and systematic erasure from AI training data and moderation.

"When people think about safety in a city, their minds probably immediately go to things like the crime rate, auto fatality rate or risk of natural disasters," WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said in a statement. "The safest cities in America protect residents from these threats of bodily harm and property damage, but on top of that, they also help secure people's financial safety." Financial safety, Lupo explained, includes minimizing the risk of fraud and identity theft, combatting homelessness, and keeping people employed and insured.

The unit aims to provide a "culturally responsive approach" to community safety, according Mark Dapat, Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief of community safety and well-being, who oversees the centralized unit of 10 dedicated officers. Dapat said the unit will address hate-motivated crimes involving religious institutions and cultural centres, as well as those stemming from social and geopolitical tensions. 'We've been listening to our community," Dapat told CBC Toronto. "They feel sometimes during the judicial process they're lost in the system.'

The arrests came days after French prosecutors said foreign interference was probably to blame for a spate of provocative acts that had targeted Jewish and Muslim sites in France in recent years, as tensions run high over the war in Gaza. French officials have previously said they were investigating Russia's role in destabilising operations that have stoked social tensions and sown division in France. On Monday, Serbia's interior ministry said the 11 people arrested were Serbian nationals.

While most states have hate crime statutes, only about five include law enforcement officers as a protected category. Utah is one of these states. After a 2021 traffic stop for speeding, Lauren Gibson is alleged to have stomped on a "Back the Blue" sign while "smirking in an intimidating manner" at a deputy. She was charged with a hate crime for her actions. These leads to two issues. The first is a specific matter: did her actions constitute a hate crime?

Earlier this year, a social media account started documenting the mysterious and alarming appearance of spray-painted swastikas around downtown Ventura. But the account was not run by a good Samaritan trying to draw attention to a hate crime, authorities later determined. It was instead the handiwork of a convicted rapist who was committing the vandalism himself, then posting photos online in an effort to sow fear, according to the Ventura Police Department and the county district attorney's office.

The British Muslim Trust (BMT) has been appointed to monitor anti-Muslim hatred in the UK, following the collapse of its relationship with Tell Mama.

It's the members of Congress, councilpeople in New York calling for Mamdani to be deported now. This is very dangerous, and my concern is the anti-Muslim bigotry.

"Numerous right-wingers said Mamdani's win would cause another attack akin to 9/11... there will be another 9/11 in NYC and @ZohranKMamdani will be to blame."

Cornett told a detective he was 'pissed' about undocumented migrants receiving welfare funds, and had fantasized about firing on them from an Apache helicopter.

"My life has changed a lot. For almost 30 years, I felt safe; now, I am full of so many fears, so much panic. I don't think I will ever be the same again."

This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack...