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Miya Ponsetto, the woman who attacked a 14-year-old Black teen who she falsely accused of stealing her iPhone, has reached a plea deal in the incident and will not serve jail time. Dubbed “SoHo Karen,” Ponsetto will be required to “live a law-abiding life” for 2 years, continuing therapy and following her probation terms, per TMZ. After […]
President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which now makes lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history. Now, a crime could “be prosecuted as a lynching when death or serious bodily injury results from a conspiracy to commit a hate crime,” per the Huffington Post, with those convicted facing upwards of […]
A Texas man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges this week in connection with a 2020 attack on an Asian family at a Sam’s Club. Per a report from NBC News, 21-year-old Jose Gomez III pleaded guilty to three counts of committing a hate crime and admitted to having cut a customer, their six-year-old child, and […]
A group of men claiming to be neo-Nazis have been apprehended after they attacked a Jewish man in Florida on Jan. 29. ABC News reports that the incident happened outside a shopping plaza last weekend when they received a report of around 20 people demonstrating while dressed in Nazi insignia. Police arrested 45-year-old Burt Colucci, […]
An NYPD officer was arraigned this week on an indictment charging him with hate crimes in connection with allegedly punching a man until he was unconscious while using anti-Muslim slurs. 50-year-old Riggs Kwong, as reported by the New York Daily News, pleaded not guilty in front of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Raymond Rodriguez on Monday. […]
After nine hours of deliberations, a Chicago jury has found Jussie Smollett guilty of multiple counts in his years-long hate crime case. According to Variety, the verdict was announced Thursday afternoon following seven days of testimony from 13 witnesses. Smollett, who is Black and openly gay, was accused of staging his own hate crime in 2019 and making false […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A New Jersey high school teacher has been suspended after allegedly telling a Muslim student “we don’t negotiate with […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A 22-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for using the dating app Grindr to […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Authorities have identified the culprit behind a series of “racially charged” notes that plagued a Georgia community. On Wednesday, the Douglasville […]
An Ohio police chief resigned this week following an incident in which he left a Ku Klux Klan sign on a Black officer’s desk. The Associated Press reports Anthony Campo, a 33-year veteran of the Sheffield Lake Police Department, retired Tuesday after Mayor Dennis Bring put him on administrative leave upon learning about the incident. The incident […]
