Hate Crimes

Man charged with hate crime in Nebraska also used fake ID, police say

Cory Matteson – Lincoln Journal Star
September 7th, 2010

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The man charged with committing a hate crime outside Club Q early Friday morning also gave Lincoln police a fake ID, according to police records.

Lincoln Police Capt. Jim Davidsaver said Monday that Lucas M. Clifford, 19, 1014 Claremont St., was cited Friday evening on suspicion of possessing an Indiana ID that gave his name as Luke Stevens, 22.

That's the name police released Friday when Officer Katie Flood described the incident outside the gay bar at 226 S. Ninth St.

Gang attacks British gay bar owner in suspected homophobic hate crime at Spanish resort

James Sanders – PinkPaper.com
September 6th, 2010

MIJAS COSTA, Spain -- A British man has been attacked by a gang of seven at the Spanish resort of Mijas Costa in what police believe was a homophobic hate crime.

According to Spanish news service The Leader, the 25-year-old – who owns the area's local gay bar – suffered head injuries, a broken nose, several fractured ribs and facial bruising as a result of the attack on Sunday morning.

The victim told the site: “I walked back into my own bar, after being out in Fuengirola and said hello to a group of seven men who I vaguely know as they work in premises near mine.

Teenager accused in hate crime attack in San Francisco

San Francisco Examiner
September 6th, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of a hate crime attack on a gay man on a Muni train on Aug. 14, police said.

The victim, a 26-year-old San Francisco man, was getting off the J-Church line at Church and Market streets at about 12:40 a.m. as a group of youths were getting on the train, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.

The man apologized when his backpack bumped one of the boys, but the boy allegedly yelled a gay slur at him and then punched him several times in the face, police said.

Hate crime in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku? Double murder of two transvestites

LGBT Asylum News
August 30th, 2010

Via Tert.am, Vesti.az reports on double murder in Baku of two transvestites. Source in Azerbaijan’s capital police district suggested of their "possible non-traditional sexual orientation.”

As per reports, they were wearing women’s wigs, lingerie, and having bright colored nail manicure. They were found dead with multiple stab wounds.

Russian to English Google translation

In Yasamal district of Baku for the day with a second murder, but this time double.

It was reported Vesti.Az in the 27th branch of the Police District.

White separatist group posts anti-gay hate fliers in greater Cincinnati

SDGLN Staff
August 30th, 2010

COVINGTON, Ky. – This Ohio River city, across the water from Cincinnati, has recently been plagued by reports of hate crimes against the LGBT community.

Now comes word that someone apparently supportive of the National Alliance, a white separatist group founded by William Luther Pierce of Hillsboro, W. Va., has illegally posted dozens of anti-gay hate fliers in Covington’s Mainstrasse neighborhood, where there is a significant LGBT presence.

California Senate passes new hate crimes bill protecting against legal loopholes

SDGLN Staff
August 25th, 2010

SACRAMENTO – The State Senate on Tuesday passed the Hate Crimes Protection Act (AB 1680) in a 22-13 bipartisan vote.

The bill would exempt hate crimes from mandatory arbitration clauses, often included in employment contracts and would prohibit contracts from requiring an individual to waive his or her legal rights and procedures, guaranteed under the Ralph Civil Rights Act and Bane Civil Rights Act, which provide protections for victims of hate crimes.

The bill is sponsored by Equality California and was introduced by Assemblymember Lori Saldaña, D-San Diego.

Arabic translation leads to hate crime charges in Chicago

Andy Grimm - Chicago Tribune
August 4th, 2010

CHICAGO -- Prosecutors have upgraded charges against two southwest suburban men who allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs as they attacked a woman outside a Hickory Hills restaurant.

Mohammad Shaban, 35, of Hickory Hills, and Akram Alshoweat, 25, of Oak Lawn, are now charged with felony hate crime and robbery in an alleged attack on a woman June 28. Prosecutors originally had charged the men with a misdemeanor count of battery, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office said Tuesday.

Anti-gay hate crimes in California drop 22% in 2009

SDGLN Staff
July 23rd, 2010

LOS ANGELES -- Anti-gay hate crimes in California fell 22.1 in 2009, part of a downward trend in overall hate crimes, according to an annual report released this week.

The 2009 annual report shows that hate crimes in California fell by more than 20% last year, which Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. called "encouraging," but he warned that we are still a long way from ending bigotry and prejudice.

Staten Island gay couple are latest victims of hate crimes as bias attacks spike

Edgar Sandoval and Jonathan Lemire – New York Daily News
July 19th, 2010

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A gay couple who innocently made a late-night stop at a White Castle in Staten Island was among the latest in a skyrocketing number of hate crime victims in the city.

The number of bias attacks has ballooned from 111 to 200 through July 11 - an 80% surge from the same time period in 2009. A pocket of Port Richmond has been ground zero for such attacks, with six Mexican immigrants beaten there in separate incidents since April.

For married couple Luis and Richard Vieira, the attack on July 7 began with a homophobic slur.

LGBT hate crimes decline in 2009, but murder rate is second-highest in decade

SDGLN Staff
July 14th, 2010

NEW YORK -- Hate crimes against LGBT people are down in the U.S., but the 22 murders are the second-highest annual total over a 10-year period.

Details are documented in “Hate Violence Against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Communities in the United States in 2009,” a report released Tuesday by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.

Of the 22 murders in 2009, half of those were transgender women.

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