Hatewatch Headlines 7/5/2016
Trump’s anti-Hillary meme is a supremacist creation; Heimbach becoming key to nationalists; Black leaders bolster LGBT rights fight; and more.
Mic: Donald Trump’s retweet featuring anti-Hillary meme was created by white supremacists.
The New York Times: Inside the six weeks that Donald Trump was a nonstop ‘birther.’
NJ.com: Suspected white supremacist, complete with Hitler mustache, arrested in Pinelands with weapons, ammo cache.
City Pages (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN): Lauderdale man flies a Nazi flag at his home, claims he just likes the colors on it.
Think Progress: How Matthew Heimbach became the most important white supremacist of 2016.
BuzzFeed: Surveillance video shows two Muslim youths viciously beaten outside a Brooklyn mosque.
Detroit Free Press: Investigation widens into death of a Muslim Marine recruit during boot camp.
The Daily Beast: U.S.-based C-FAM, the far-right anti-LGBT Catholic fundamentalists you’ve never heard of, just cozied up to Iran.
Associated Press: Utah militia leader accused of anti-BLM bombing plot will remain in jail for the time being.
Media Matters: Rush Limbaugh makes crude jokes about transgender people after military lifts ban.
Fox 17 News (Nashville, TN): Metro police investigating killing of horse owned by Sikh family as a hate crime.
KMSP-TV (Minneapolis, MN): Police investigating shooting of two Muslim men near University of Minnesota campus as a hate crime.
Casa Grande Dispatch (AZ): Sheriff Paul Babeu flies to D.C. to speak to anti-immigrant organization designated a hate group.
Reuters: Black leaders emerge as powerful allies in LGBT fight in the South.
