By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A group of three southerners had the idea to construct a large wooden cross, bring it to the yard of a local African-America resident of Arkansas, and light the cross on fire before driving away; now the three have been sentenced to 18 months in prison, the FBI announced in a…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man was sentenced to nearly 14 years for a 2010 arson incident, according to a statement from the FBI. Michael Jacques, a 27-year-old of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced to 166 months in federal prison in connection with the arson of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI crime stats released Monday show the proportion of hate crimes committed against Hispanics have reached a decade high, with 66 percent of ethnically motivated hate crimes being committed on the basis of anti-Hispanic bias, reports the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post also reported in a separate article that the level of…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Nine months from retirement, a Tennessee ATF agent was notified in August that the agency intended to fire him. But the ATF agent Steve Parris, an African American, says the recommendation to fire him is rooted in nothing more than an informant’s racism, backed by the informant’s law enforcement buddy, Vonore,…
