Tag: hate crime

California Church Shooting Suspect Had Ties to CCP Front Group

The man charged with killing one person and injuring five others after a Taiwanese service at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, was once a member of a U.S.-based group controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting by the alleged gunman, 68-year-old David Wenwei Chou of Las…


Man Charged With Hate Crime, Arson After Allegedly Burning Down Missouri Church

A man has been charged with a federal hate crime and arson for allegedly burning down the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri last year. Christopher Scott Pritchard, 46, was charged for intentionally obstructing the parishioners of the church in the enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs and using…


Biden Signs Law Making Lynching a Federal Hate Crime

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law the first anti-lynching legislation in U.S. history that would make the act a federal hate crime. “All right. It’s law,” Biden said shortly after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act at a desk in the White House Rose Garden alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, members of…


‘There Is No Such Thing as a Thought Crime,’ Watchdog Tells UK Police

Police forces should stop declaring certain thoughts are crimes, the UK’s police watchdog has warned, stressing that “thought crimes” do not exist in the country’s legal system. Sir Tom Winsor, the outgoing chief inspector of constabulary, said that chief constables cannot “declare something that is not a crime to be a crime” in their force…


Jussie Smollett Sentenced to 150 Days in Jail Over Lying About Attack, Declares He’s ‘Not Suicidal’

Jussie Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail for lying to police about being a victim of an attack he orchestrated himself. At the hearing, Smollett repeatedly declared he is “not suicidal.” The one-time star of the TV drama “Empire” had asserted the attack happened in January 2019. A jury in December 2021 found Smollett, 39,…


UK Government Rejects Bid to Make Misogyny a Hate Crime

The British government has rejected calls to make misogyny a new hate crime, arguing that it would only make it harder to prosecute sexual offences and domestic abuse cases. The House of Lords inflicted a string of defeats on the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill last month, passing a host of amendments including…


Thug Charged With Hate Crime Against Falun Gong Allegedly Linked to Beijing

News Analysis We all know about hate crimes, perpetrated by racists and bigots against, for example, ethnic and religious groups. They include anti-Asian hate, slurs against African Americans, and attacks on Jewish synagogues. But some hate crimes get less coverage in the mainstream press—those against adherents of Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation discipline. In the most recent…


Man Who Attacked Falun Gong Information Booths Arrested for Alleged Hate Crime in Flushing

NEW YORK—A man has been arrested four days after he violently tore up information stands in Flushing that were meant to highlight the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) long-running persecution of the faith group Falun Gong. The attacker, 32-year-old Zheng Buqiu, was arrested at around noon on Feb. 15 at the crossing between Main Street and…


New York Man Charged With Hate Crime for Attacking Falun Gong Information Booths

NEW YORK—A man has been arrested four days after he violently tore up information stands in Flushing that were meant to highlight the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) long-running persecution of the faith group Falun Gong. The attacker, 32-year-old Zheng Buqiu, was arrested at around noon on Feb. 15 at the crossing between Main Street and…


No Evidence of Hate Crime Against Virginia Muslim High School Student: Police

There’s no evidence that an alleged assault on a female Muslim high school student in Fairfax, Virginia was a hate crime, local police said. The Dec. 14 incident involved a male student at Fairfax High School, who reportedly pushed a female Muslim student to the ground, pulled off her hijab, and beat her up, while…