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Canada
Brutal group attack on Sikh student in Canada denounced as ‘absolutely horrendous’
A Canadian city councilor has spoken up after a Sikh international student was brutally beaten by a group of people on his way home in what ...
Michelle De Pacina
Crime
Queens duo charged with hate crimes for punching, kicking Asian mom and son in their heads
Two people have been arrested in connection with a suspected anti-Asian attack in Queens, New York. The two alleged suspects, Natalie Plaza,...
2 Native Hawaiians sentenced to prison for hate-crime beating of white homeowner
Two Native Hawaiian men who were found guilty of a hate crime for attacking a white homeowner in Maui has been sentenced in federal court. O...
Duo wanted for assaulting, yelling racial slurs at Asian woman in Massachusetts
Massachusetts transit police are searching for two individuals accused of a racially motivated attack on an Asian woman in the city of Somer...
Carl Samson
Massachusetts driver charged with hate crime for ramming Asian man into ditch, yelling ‘Go back to China’
A Massachusetts motorist accused of hitting an Asian man, dragging him for 200 yards and ramming him into a ditch while making anti-Chinese ...
Ex-NYPD hate crimes chief sues Mayor Adams for ‘destroying’ her reputation over alleged mishandling
The former head of the New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force filed a suit against Mayor Eric Adams and the city on Tuesday, ac...
Man accused in SF brick and metal grate attack on 3 Asian Americans charged with hate crimes
A man is facing multiple charges with hate crime enhancements after allegedly attacking three Asian Americans while making racist comments i...
San Francisco launches new response protocol to hate incidents
San Francisco officials recently announced a new response protocol to hate incidents in the city, making it easier for victims to find much-...
Homeless veteran charged with hate crime for New Year’s Eve anti-Asian attack in NYC
Before you read: Man wanted for shoving Asian woman in unprovoked attack near NYC’s Herald Square ...
Bryan Ke
NYC man pleads guilty to killing senior can collector because he’s Asian
Before you read: Man arrested for brutally stomping on head of Asian American man, 61, in Manhattan Man who stomped on elderly Chinese man’s...
Man wanted for shoving Asian woman in unprovoked attack near NYC’s Herald Square
New York City police are looking for a man accused of shoving an Asian woman while calling her a “stupid Asian b*tch” near Manhattan’s Heral...
Colorado man charged with hate crimes for anti-Asian, anti-gay tirade at California In-N-Out
Before you read: Self-proclaimed ‘Slave master’ spews anti-Asian, anti-gay hate against TikTokers at California In-N-Out A Colorado man has ...
‘Go back to your country’: California man charged with hate crime for beating up Asian senior
Jesse Fausto Correa, 29, is facing multiple charges — including a hate crime charge — in connection with an attack on an elderly Asian man ...
Woman charged with hate crime for calling man ‘Asian pig’, assaulting him on NYC subway
Dream Commisso, 19, has been charged with a hate crime for her alleged role in the assault of a 42-year-old Asian man on a Manhattan subway...
2 men charged with hate crimes for back-to-back anti-Asian incidents in Washington state
A pair of men have been charged with hate crimes in connection with two separate anti-Asian incidents in Washington state earlier this mont...
NY career criminal sentenced to 17.5 years for punching Asian senior 125 times
Tammel Esco, 42, has received a 17.5-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to brutally attacking a senior Asian woman in Yonkers, New ...
New York now requires those convicted of hate crimes to undergo hate crime prevention training
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) announced the signing of two new bills, Assembly Bill A1202 and Assembly Bill A5913A, to address the “rising tide ...
2 Hawaiian men found guilty of hate crime for attacking white homeowner
On Nov. 17, a federal jury found Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki, Jr., 33, guilty of a hate crime for attacking Christopher Kunzelman...
Issues & Racism
Manila journalists visiting US to interview hate crime victims become targets of anti-Asian hate
Visiting journalists from Manila purportedly became the target of anti-Asian hate just days after they interviewed Filipino victims of simi...
Cincinnati man charged with hate crime for anti-Asian attack on student
Darrin Johnson, 26, was charged with federal hate crime on Wednesday in connection with an anti-Asian attack against a University of Cincin...
Repeat New York offender who punched elderly Asian woman over 125 times pleads guilty to hate crime
Tammel Esco, 42, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree assault as a hate crime in connection with a brutal attack on an elderly Filipin...
Texas woman sued by Indian American over viral racist meltdown
The incident, which was caught in a now-viral video, occurred in the parking lot of the restaurant Sixty Vines at around 8:15 p.m. on Aug. ...
UC Berkeley assault being investigated as anti-Asian hate crime
An aggravated assault that allegedly took place near the University of California, Berkeley campus on Monday is being investigated as a pos...
News
‘Hate has no place in America’: Biden meets hate crime survivors at White House summit
President Joe Biden met several hate crime survivors and the relatives of mass shooting victims during the United We Stand Summit at the Wh...
NYC man charged with hate crimes for headbutting Asian victim because he’s ‘Chinese’
A man accused of headbutting an Asian man in an unprovoked attack in Queens, New York City, in July has been charged with hate crimes. Rud...
Indian American charged with hate crime over racist attack on fellow Indian in California Taco Bell
On Aug. 21, Krishnan Jayaraman recorded 37-year-old Singh Tejinder subjecting him to a racial tirade at a Taco Bell at Grimmer Boulevard in...
Ryan General
Elderly Filipino woman ‘punched without provocation’ by female attacker in New York City
A 74-year-old Filipino woman was “punched without provocation” by an unidentified woman while walking along Madison Avenue near East 52nd S...
‘This ain’t India’: Man recorded verbally attacking, spitting on Indian man in a California Taco Bell
Krishnan Jayaraman was at a Fremont, California, Taco Bell on Grimmer Boulevard when another customer began to verbally attack him on Aug. ...
Suspects in attack of Chinese PhD student at UW-Madison not charged with hate crimes
Alijah C. Johnson, 19; Cashius E. Carter, 18; and Abdoulah C. Traore-Flores, 17, have been charged with multiple counts of battery and diso...
NYC Mayor Adams condemns anti-Hindu hate crimes following latest Gandhi statue vandalization
On Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke out against anti-Hindu hate crimes after the Shri Tulsi Mandir’s statue of Mahatma Gandh...
Rebecca Moon
Portland man behind series of anti-Asian attacks charged with third bias incident for assault and robbery
Dylan Kesterson, 34, is now facing a total of 23 charges after it was discovered that authorities had also linked him to a third bias incid...
Man accused of attacking former San Francisco commissioner not charged with hate crime
Derrick Yearby, the man accused of attacking former San Francisco commissioner-at-large Greg Chew earlier this month, will not face hate cr...
Man indicted for hate crimes in Dallas Korean hair salon shooting
Jeremy Theron Smith, 37, was indicted Tuesday on multiple counts — including hate crime enhancements — for a Korean hair salon shooting in ...
NYC career criminal sees hate crime charge dropped in alleged slashing of Asian woman
The hate crime charge against Anthony Evans, the man accused of slashing an Asian woman with a box cutter in New York City’s Times Square, ...
Portland court dismisses bias crime case against man who kicked Asian woman due to public defender shortage
A court in Portland, Oregon, has dismissed the bias crime case against a man accused of kicking an Asian American woman and spewing racial s...
Seattle man charged with assault, hate crime for attacks on 3 Asian women
Michael John Allen, 40, is facing hate crime and assault charges after allegedly attacking three Asian women in two separate incidents in d...