All posts tagged "hate crimes"
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Three Arrested in Local Teen's Stabbing
Three people have been arrested for stabbing a local teenager multiple times on the evening of June 26, in what is thought to be a...
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Judge Finds Probable Cause in Barracks Row Stabbing
The trial of a Marine accused of killing a fellow Marine following an incident where he allegedly called the victim a ''faggot'' will move forward...
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Two Indicted on Federal Hate Crimes Charges Against Gay Man
Two Kentucky men have been indicted in what the Department of Justice says is the first case to involve sexual orientation charged under the Matthew...
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Counting the Crimes
The March 20 demonstration for victims of crimes that seemed to target members of the LGBT community may have been more warranted than organizers imagined....
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Skinner Scheduled for Trial
The man accused of approaching two teenage girls, 15 and 16, near the Minnesota Avenue Metro Station and threatening to rape them in front of...
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Hundreds March to Protest LGBT Hate Crimes in D.C.
{Protesters, including Rodney Shaffer (second from left, in red), stand in silence Photo by Dylan Comstock} Hundreds of D.C. residents took to the streets on...
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MPD Reports Reveal More Anti-LGBT Attacks
As seasonal temperatures rise, attacks with some indication of anti-LGBT bias are also apparently increasing. A shooting at a Columbia Heights IHOP Restaurant and a...
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New Attacks Alarm D.C.
Concerned members of the LGBT community have announced plans for a silent march and a fundraiser in the wake of two anti-gay attacks earlier this...
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Matthew Shepard’s father confronts Tennessee about teen suicides, bullying, hate crimes
Dennis Shepard, appeared at a press conference sponsored by the Tennessee Equality Project this week. He directed his comments toward parents about the need to...
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Revisiting Violence
At year's end, the local LGBT community is recovering from a year of violent attacks directed at LGBT individuals, particularly transgender women of color. Beginning...
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Mendelson Fields Testimony
Longstanding tensions and the often rocky working relationships between LGBT activists and members of the Metropolitan Police Department were once more highlighted during a three-hour...
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Barack Obama's speech at HRC's National Dinner 2011 [video]
On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, President Barack Obama addressed the 15th annual Human Rights Campaign national dinner. In addition to touting the administration's accomplishments --...
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Campus Hate Crime
A George Washington University senior has been charged with a hate crime for an assault on a fellow student early Sunday, March 6, according to...
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Hate Crime Conviction
''They don't lock you up for hitting faggots.'' Those are the words the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC) say 42-year-old...
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Four Months for Menace
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced April 7 that a Virginia man has been sentenced to 120 days in jail for...
