The ATF is investigating the fire-bombing of a local Republican Party office in North Carolina after someone spray-painted anti-GOP rhetoric on a nearby wall early Sunday morning.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined an investigation into racist graffiti spray-painted on a suburban Detroit church that also was serving as an Election Day poling place, the Associated Press reports. Bishop-Elect James Richard Evans Sr. said he believes the graffiti, which included an anti-black slur, was intended to intimidate voters. Racial problems are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A sign of the ongoing hostile feelings of Mexican drug gangs toward the DEA surfaced last week. The New York Daily News reports that a Mexican drug gang spray-painted a message Friday near a school in Chihuahua, about 220 miles from the U.S. border: “Gringos (D.E.A.), We know where you are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The anti-Islam sentiment, triggered by the planned mosque in New York near ground zero, appears to be spreading around the country. The FBI is investigating vandalism that occurred at a mosque under construction in Phoenix a few weeks ago, the Associated Press reports. The vandalism included broken glass and graffiti. The…
There’s not much that can be said about the ugliness of hate crimes. It’s one thing to spout ignorant, hateful words, but it’s another thing when it results in death. By David Kelly Los Angeles Times YERMO, Calif. — Hadie Mohd last saw his father as he headed out to the family’s vacated home to…
