hate crime

The U.S. Department of Justice event commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

The autopsy said the cause of death multiple injuries from blunt trauma to the head and face.

Hate crimes traditionally have been defined as acts that send fear to an entire community whose members are similar to those of the victim.

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who was convicted in March of a hate crime for using a webcam to spy on his roommate's same-sex intimate encounter two years ago, was sentenced.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A white Mississippi teenager has been indicted for capital murder and a hate crime on charges he intentionally ran over a middle-age black man with a pickup truck.

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Video captured by a Mississippi surveillance camera shows a group of teens killing a man in an alleged hate crime, the district attorney says. Video shows 49-year-old auto plant worker James C. Anderson being beaten before being ru…