January 30, 2008

Hatewatch for the week of January 30th 2008

Man Indicted On Federal Conspiracy Charges For Displaying Noose
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, and a juvenile member of the Ku Klux Klan allegedly conspired in criminal threats and harassment by attaching nooses to pick-up trucks and then repeatedly driving past civil rights marchers gathered at a bus depot last September...

Bombmaker Suspected Of Targeting Synagogues
A man with an arsenal of weapons in his apartment who was arrested for making pipe bombs confessed to scrawling swastikas on synagogues in his neighborhood, police said...

FBI Investigates Mormon Seminary Vandalism
The FBI considers anti-Mormon graffiti spray-painted outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seminary building to be a hate crime...

Accused Cross Burners Charged With Hate Crimes
Two white men who allegedly burned a cross on a black family's lawn last November were charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime in addition to aggravated harassment and arson...

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