Hatewatch Headlines 6/16/2016
Sessions claims gays weren’t targets in Orlando; DeLay calls Obama a communist Muslim; County lowers its flags after all; and more.
: Indiana man arrested near L.A. gay-pride parade was fleeing arrest for child molestation.
: Rep. Pete Sessions blocks nondiscrimination bill after claiming gay people weren’t targets in Orlando shooting.
: Man arrested after armed standoff, threats made against Northgate-area mosque.
: South Carolina man admits he lied to FBI about his role in Doggart’s violent plot against Muslims.
: Former House Speaker Tom DeLay says President Obama is a communist ‘Muslim sympathizer’ who ‘hates America.’
: Jackson city council adds LGBT protections to citywide antidiscrimination law.
: White man charged with hate crime after viciously beating black man, saying ‘the white man won for once.’
: Watch a professor shred a Fox host’s defense of Trump’s racist call to ban Muslim immigrants.
: Southern Baptists should be congratulated for voting to take down that Confederate flag.
: Pennsylvania governor orders removal of Confederate flag from state capitol display.
: Cole County commissioners first refuse to fly flag at half staff, then change minds after uproar.