According to a new report, Chicago police are investigating the possibility that actor Jussie Smollett worked with two men to stage an attack against him last month.
Actor Jussie Smollett said in a new interview that he is angry at people who don’t “want to see the truth” about an alleged racial attack that he claims to be a victimized of.
A source speaking to TMZ, however, says Smollett did not refuse to turn over his phone records and “is in the process of gathering them.”
Newly-announced presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) called on the House of Representatives this week to pass legislation that would designate lynching a federal hate crime — re-upping the bill, which passed the Senate in December, in response to an alleged attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett.
After poring through hundreds of hours of surveillance video, police found footage of two people who were in the vicinity of the attack around the time it allegedly occurred.
NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson issued a statement Tuesday afternoon specifically blaming Trump’s “racist and xenophobic rhetoric” for the alleged attack on Jussie Smollett.
Official crime figures have revealed a 14 percent jump in the number of homicides recorded in England and Wales, with knife offences hitting the highest level in eight years.
Finland’s prime minister has used a New Year’s address to demand citizens refrain from “disseminating hate speech” in the wake of investigations into a foreign rape gang preying on young girls.
The Metropolitan Police Force which serves London is abandoning around one-third of all crime reports after a single phone call under the mayoralty of Sadiq Khan.
A security specialist has said that stealing lead from church roofs should be treated as an anti-Christian hate crime because thieves know it will disrupt religious services.
A former regional chief prosecutor has said that London’s Metropolitan police were “pushing the envelope” after arresting six people for setting alight and filming the burning effigy of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster.
The NYPD said Monday afternoon that two men suspected of defacing Brooklyn homes with anti-Semitic drawings have been arrested.
A trio of Chicago residents notified police of anti-semitic chalk markings discovered on their properties since Friday, according to reports. One resident from the city’s Uptown neighborhood told law enforcement that they witnessed a man on Friday afternoon defacing a pillar outside his home located in the 800 block
The NYPD is investigating a clique of vandals after a metal pipe was thrown through a window of a New York City synagogue, authorities say.
The New York Times admits no one on the political left cares about New York’s rise in anti-Semitism because it cannot be pinned on the political right.
The head of London police and other senior officers have backed calls for police to focus on real crimes rather than using resources recording “non-crime” hate incidents, offensive comments about women, and other “hate crimes.”
One of the UK’s most senior police officers has slammed the prioritisation of “hate crimes,” calling for officers to solve more burglaries and violent attacks by focusing on “core policing.”
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a “one-stop portal” on Monday being created by the Justice Department to help report hate crimes.
The European Union Parliament passed a motion this week to demand member-states ban ‘neo-fascist’ parties and groups and have intelligence agencies fully co-operate with ‘anti-racism’ NGOs.
A man has appeared in court charged with offences including dangerous driving and racial harassment in relation to a “crash” outside a north London Muslim centre that injured three.
The government is looking to expand the number of “protected characteristics” for hate crimes to include men, old people, and Goths, as the number of recorded hate incidents in every category increased to a new record high.
Munich police have confirmed that the case of a 19-year-old Afghan national who gave officers the illegal Hitler salute will be listed as a “right-wing” politically motivated crime.
A council worker who sent out ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters and threatening notes to the Queen and Prime Minister could face life jail after admitting 15 offences at the Old Bailey.
A man identified as Farrukh Afzal was charged with assault as a hate crime in connection with the beating of an Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn following an alleged road rage incident on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The killing of a 24-year-old Jewish man in Chicago’s West Roger’s Park neighborhood is the second murder in as many days and has rocked the local Jewish community.
Scotland’s government has been slammed by the Catholic Church for ignoring sectarian and anti-Catholic hate attacks, after launching a new “hate crime” initiative focused on the disabled and transgendered.
UK Police are too busy responding to trivial social media spats to tackle serious crime, the new head of the Police Federation has said, after years of forces encouraging “hate crime” reports for offensive comments.
Authorities have arrested and charged a woman in Long Island for making up a story about a Trump-related hate crime, police said.
South Yorkshire Police have doubled down in response to backlash over ‘Orwellian’ tweets urging people to report “non-crime hate incidents”, stating that “offensive” online comments “re-emphasises the need” for officers to “tackle hate”.
With soaring rates of “high harm” crime, falling arrest rates, and a shrinking proportion of crimes resulting in a charge, police forces in Britain are finding it “increasingly difficult” to keep the public safe, an official report has warned.
