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News Roundup for August 15, 2011
Posted By Hatewatch Staff On August 15, 2011 @ 1:23 pm In Anti-Black,Anti-LGBT,Anti-Muslim,Anti-White | 3 Comments
Police in West Allis, Wis., have announced [1] that they will pursue hate crime charges against at least one teen for the recent rash of flash mob attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair. One suspect told police that he picked out white people because they were “easy targets.”
A Santa Barbara, Calif., man was attacked [2] by a white supremacist wielding a long pair of scissors, according to the victim’s friend. The friend told police the victim, an African-American man, was stabbed in the neck and face by a man with white supremacist tattoos who began harassing them as they walked down the street.
A Michigan lawmaker is pushing legislation [3] to ban the use of “foreign laws” in U.S. courts. Activists claim it’s a thinly veiled attack on Shariah, or Muslim religious, law. If enacted, Michigan would be the third state to implement such a prohibition.
Police in Pasadena, Calif., are searching [4] for suspects who have spread offensive graffiti throughout the city. The graffiti has included racist slurs, homophobic slurs, and swastikas, which have been plastered across residential and commercial buildings, as well as city buildings.
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[1] have announced: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0812/Wisconsin-State-Fair-mob-attack-Police-seek-hate-crime-charges
[2] was attacked: http://www.independent.com/news/2011/aug/12/man-stabbed-corner-state-and-figueroa/
[3] pushing legislation: http://www.detnews.com/article/20110813/POLITICS02/108130365/Michigan-bill-targets-use-of-%E2%80%98foreign%E2%80%99-laws-like-Sharia
[4] are searching: http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/08/12/28205/racist-and-anti-gay-graffiti-appears-around-pasade/
[5] : http://www.gophouse.com/readarticle.asp?id=4423&District=74
[6] : http://www.gophouse.com/readarticle.asp?id=7562&District=74
[7] : http://www.gophouse.com/readarticle.asp?id=7036&District=74
[8] : http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/06/lawmaker_wants_to_end_tribual.html
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3 Comments To "News Roundup for August 15, 2011"
#1 Comment By P On August 16, 2011 @ 12:25 am
Michigan’s own Dave Agema (of course). For readers who don’t know, he also opposes affirmative action, opposes LGBT benefit equality for public employees, cites FAIR when opposing immigrants and tries to block Native American tuition waiver that is part of a treaty between the state of Michigan and Native American tribes (he claims casino revenues even when not every tribe runs one)
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#2 Comment By A.D.M. On August 17, 2011 @ 12:07 pm
SPLC, for the first paragraph, you forgot the “AntiWhite” tab.
#3 Comment By Mark Potok On August 17, 2011 @ 2:09 pm
A.D.M., fair enough. Done.