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The Los Angeles Police Department headquarters building is seen downtown Los Angeles in July 2022. Police say they arrested a suspect in the separate shootings of two Jewish men as they left morning prayer services.

The suspect accused of shooting 2 Jewish men in LA has been charged with hate crimes

7:37pm February 17, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Both victims survived the shootings, which happened just blocks apart this week. Federal prosecutors filed two hate crimes charges against the shooter on Friday.

A screen grab from the surveillance video that recorded an attack on a woman of Asian descent in Yonkers, N.Y., on March 11. The 42-year-old male suspect has been charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of assault as a hate crime.

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Man arrested for the violent hate-crime beating of an Asian woman in N.Y., police say

9:45pm March 15, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

In a surveillance video released by police, the suspect is shown punching the victim in the face and head more than 125 times. He is being charged with attempted murder.

A police vehicle sits in front of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 16, the day after a gunman took worshippers hostage at the synagogue. Colleyville is among dozens of U.S. cities dealing with the distribution of antisemitic flyers

Colleyville, Texas, is among dozens of U.S. cities blanketed with antisemitic flyers

5:13pm February 23, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Police are investigating the distribution of antisemitic flyers just a month after a gunman took worshippers hostage in a synagogue. Similar materials have been dropped in driveways across the U.S.

Cameron Hunt and his father Calvin Hunt display signs of support on Tuesday outside the West 43rd Street apartment in Manhattan, where a man physically and verbally attacked a 65-year-old Asian American woman on Monday in an incident police are investigat

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Attack On Asian Woman In Manhattan, As Bystanders Watched, To Be Probed As Hate Crime

4:09pm March 30, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Video of the assault, as well as the seeming inaction of apartment staff standing nearby, has drawn fury in and beyond New York. State and city authorities are investigating the attack.

The FBI team investigating the incident concluded the "noose" found in Bubba Wallace's garage was actually a pull rope that had been in the stall long before the driver was assigned.

NASCAR's Bubba Wallace Was Not The Target Of A Hate Crime, FBI Says

8:28pm June 23, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"After a thorough review of the facts and evidence surrounding this event, we have concluded that no federal crime was committed," FBI officials said in a statement, Tuesday.

Jussie Smollett speaks last month at an awards ceremony held in Los Angeles by Children's Defense Fund California.

Police Say 'Empire' Actor Jussie Smollett Attacked In Possible Hate Crime

9:17pm January 29, 2019

The star of the Fox drama was reportedly assaulted Tuesday in downtown Chicago. His attackers are said to have poured a chemical substance on him and wrapped a rope around his neck.

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Police described the suspect as a white man in his 20s. He was seen entering the church before the shooting. The man, whom police consider to be "armed and dangerous," left the church in a black sedan.

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Police Arrest Suspect In Charleston Church Shooting

8:47pm June 20, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Police say a gunman opened fire and killed nine people during a Wednesday prayer meeting at one of the city's oldest historically black churches. They've arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof.

An undated handout photo provided by the Berkeley County, S.C., government shows Dylann Roof at an unknown location.

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What We Know So Far About Church Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof

8:45pm June 20, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The 21-year-old suspect in the deadly shooting at one of Charleston, S.C.'s oldest historically black churches had previously been arrested on suspicion of drug possession and trespassing.