Tag: hate crime

Hate crimes on the rise? Well so aren't security camera usage and thank goodness! Horrific footage has been released showing the moment one man smashed a glass into the face of another manas he walked into a bar holding hands with his boyfriend. Anjungi Lam, 35, was caught on CCTV running up and glassing the young man in a homophobic attack in Kentish Drovers pub in South London. The victim, 23, suffered cuts to his nose, lip and neck, a chipped tooth...

One Virginia man found a nasty trick when he returned to his car on Halloween night. The man returned to his car after 10 pm on Halloween night in Highland Park within Richmond, Virginia and found it spray-painted with the words “GAY MOVE DIE.” Finding the spray-painted car scared the man so much that he then had an asthma attack and was taken to the hospital. “ has to drive this car to work in the morning,” added Virginia Pride president James...

Witnesses reported several individuals dressed in black throwing handmade incendiary devices into Circo Bar in Santorce. A suspicious fire is being reported at Circo Bar, a popular gay nightclub in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Reports indicate witnesses saw several individuals dressed all in black throw handmade incendiary devices into the club, located on Calle Condado in Santurce, some time around 7:30pm Sunday. The fire was quickly extinguished, and there are no reports of injuries or serious damage to the property. San Juan...

Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten, burned, bitten and starved before his death. A man accused of torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death did so because he through the child was gay, a prosecutor has said. 32-year-old Isauro Aguirre, of Palmdale, California, has been charged with the murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez with a special circumstance of torture. The boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, also faces trial. During opening statements on Monday (October 16), Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor on Jon...

"This town is dealing with a lot of hate right now," said Tim Griffin. "This has just got to stop." A building owned by a South Carolina gay couple has burned to the ground in what the victims are calling a hate crime. A suspicious fire early Friday morning destroyed a newly built 3,000-square-foot structure just feet from the Pageland, South Carolina, home of Tim and Neil Griffin. The men say it was going to be used to host the Miss...

"He called him things like ‘whore of Babylon.'" A Los Angeles man has been convicted of first-degree murder after shooting his gay son and stabbing his wife to death in March 2016. Shehada Issa, 70, originally claimed he killed his son Amir in self-defense after the 29-year-old killed Issa’s wife, Rabihah. Coming home from a trip, he told police, he found Rabihah stabbed to death in the bathroom. Investigating noises, Shehada grabbed his gun and went outside, where Amir allegedly threatened...

The teens have all been given a six-month prison sentence for attack on a gay couple Three UK teenagers were jailed today after pleading guilty to attacking two train passengers because of their sexuality. Two of the male teens were aged 16 and the other aged 17. They attacked Phil Poole and Zbynek Zatloukal while they were heading home from a night out in Reading. One of the 16-year olds walked through the carriage after the three boarded the train and spotted Poole...

The victim tried to calm a group that was spewing homophobic slurs at him and his friends. A gay man suffered a broken jaw at the hands of attackers in Brooklyn in what police are investigating as a possible hate crime. The victim, 27, was ordering food with friends at a fast-food restaurant in Bedford-Stuyvesant when they were approached by a group making anti-gay comments. When he tried to de-escalate the situation, one attacker punched him in the face. The assailant was...

A man has admitted to attacking a stranger in Aberdeen before shouting “He’s gay, he deserved it”. Cameron Burnside – a 20-year-old with a history of alcohol issues – launched a random attack on an innocent member of the public in Aberdeen City Centre, the Evening Express reports. He appeared from custody at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted to assaulting the man by punching him on the head. The motive was believed to be hate-driven, as he was heard shouting homophobic abuse...

A homophobe in Seattle scratched an anti-gay message into his own fence. Shaun Shaffer shares a house with three other gay men, and they put up several flags on their house for pride month. “We just finished putting up the flags, and we were taking the recycling out, and we saw our neighbor up against his fence. We heard Scratching. We couldn’t tell what he was doing. There was muttering,” Shaffer told KING 5 News. They later saw that the man had...

A gay couple has been brutally attacked by a gang of nine while walking home. Matthew Seward and his partner Laurence Cerrone were beaten and kicked by the youths, aged 15 to 21, on Sunday. Seward was left needing stitches after the unprovoked assault on the men in Whitchurch, in west England, which also saw one the group take his phone while he was on the ground. Police are treating the attack as a hate crime. Seward had been helping his mother on...

Police are on the hunt for suspects after two men were hospitalised after being beaten in a homophobic attack. The two men, who are both in their 40s, were taken to the hospital for treatment after they were punched and kicked in an attack on a tram on their way home. GMP are urging the public for information on these two people A man and two women became involved in a row with the victims at 10.30pm on January the 22nd. The Greater...

Philadelphia man suffers injuries to face, chest, and hands. A mail package a Philadelphia man thought was asthma medication exploded and caused injuries to his face, chest, and hands. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime because the 60-year-old victim has a rainbow ‘Love Trumps Hate’ sign in his front window, according to Philly.com. A neighbor and a law enforcement source identify the victim as Jim Alden who is recovering after surgery at Jefferson University Hospital. He opened the package...

A man is being charged with a felony hate crime after a 64-year-old gay man chased him down after being hit and called a “faggot”. Earlier this month, Richard Schiwietz was just walking down a Santa Barbara street with a friend when an unknown man approached them with his middle finger in the air and yelled, “Faggot! Your mother’s a whore!” When Schiwietz told the man to stop, he refused and shouted, “You say one more word, and I’m going to...