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Hatewatch Headlines 5/17/2018

Canadian coffee baron outed as alt-right podcaster; Trump calls border crossers ‘animals’; Whistleblower warns of vote-suppression campaign; and more.

Vice: The racist podcaster who started a neo-Nazi coffee company to fund white nationalism.

New York Times: Trump calls some undocumented immigrants ‘animals’ in rant during meeting with anti-sanctuary activists.

CNN: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower warns of likely vote-suppression campaign against African Americans.

Media Matters: DHS Secretary uses Fox News interview to lie about violence against Border Patrol agents.

Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins says accepting transgender people is like allowing a man who thinks he’s bird to jump off a building.

Raw Story: White man who threatened to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers busted as Trump-loving NYC attorney.

Salon: Anti-Muslim hate is on the rise, as viral coffee-shop confrontation shines a light on a harsh truth.

Think Progress: Following affair with his mother-in-law, white supremacist Heimbach heads to jail.

ABC-13 TV (Houston, TX): Black 13-year-old abducted, assaulted getting off school bus by threatening white men.

Bangor Daily News (ME): Civil-rights complaint filed against two Maine men accused of attacking black man.

Angry White Men: Neo-Nazi radio host suggests framing black people for crimes as a ‘prank.’

CBS-12 TV (Palm Beach, FL): Facing life in prison, young man accused of hate-crime murder pins blame on co-defendant.

Daily Barometer (Corvallis, OR): White nationalist Andrew Oswalt running in Oregon State student special election.

Mother Jones: Black Oaklanders rally around racially charged barbecue incident that became a viral video.

Asbury Park Press (NJ): Sayreville man charged in brutal, race-based beating of local freelancer.

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