Tag Archives: Federal hate crime

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder At the federal courthouse in Brunswick Monday, U.S. District Judge Lisa G. Wood used an even-tempered and soft voice to express her indignation for three men convicted in Coastal Georgia’s most notorious hate crime: the racially charged murder of Ahmaud Arbery. “A young man is dead,” …

Ahmaud Arbery’s convicted killers Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan were found guilty Tuesday in their federal hate crimes trial. The three white men were previously charged with interference with rights and attempted kidnapping. Both McMichaels were also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a …

A California man was sentenced to 82 months in prison for committing a federal hate crime in connection with attacking a Black man with a knife in Santa Cruz, California.  Ole Hougen, 45, of Santa Cruz, California, was convicted of the crime on April 9. According to evidence presented at trial, …

Three judges for the United States 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Court decided on Wednesday to uphold the conviction and death sentence of Dylann Roof for the racist killings of nine members of a Black church. Roof killed nine Black people at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in …