Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department has spent tax dollars supporting a campaign against George Zimmerman following the shooting of Trayvon Martin, Fox News reports, citing a conservative watchdog group. The Justice Department has a branch, called the Community Relations Service, that handles conflicts over race. According to documents cited by Fox News, the CRS…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The case of a white man who apparently was killed for hanging out with black friends in October has raised questions about whether a hate crime was committed. In a report about the case, the Southern Poverty Law Center asks whether a hate crime was committed when three white men fatally stabbed…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Wichita federal judge has granted more time for motions related to charges that a federal firearms sting was racially motivated, reports LJWorld.com. Defense lawyers are seeking to drop charges against black defendants charged in the ATF investigation, claiming the charges were racially motivated. At least 43 of 51 defendants in…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI announced on Wednesday the sentencing of three grown men for taunting African-American middle school students in Louisiana. James Lee Wallis, Tony L. Johnson and Brial Wallis admitted to hanging a dead raccoon from a noose on a flagpole in front of Beekman Junior High School, in Beekman,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Hate crimes held steady in 2010, new FBI stats show, with 6,628 hate crime incidents reported for the year. That figure was slightly up from the 6,604 in 2009. Almost half of all incidents were motivated by racial bias, according to the FBI report released Monday. Roughly 20 percent of the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now for the lighter side of life. FBI agent Christopher Johnson was one of five agents who partook in the Ironman competition at Lake Placid, N.Y. on July 25, the FBI in Detroit announced. Johnson completed the 140.6 mile race — 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday passed legislation drastically reducing the sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine — a longtime disparity critics saw as unfairly targeting African Americans. Previously, under the 1986 law, a person selling crack got the same sentence as someone selling 100 times the amount of powdered…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Early last year newly minted Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. shook things up when he delivered a speech saying Americans were “cowards” when it came to race. “Though the nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be,…
