Hatewatch Headlines 1/30/2018
Police keep Florida LOS rally mostly peaceful; Chicago cop’s posts reflect racial tensions; Hate-speech-related groups find new online platforms; and more.
: Heavy law-enforcement presence keeps League of the South rally peaceful.
: A Chicago cop’s ugly Facebook posts speak volumes in a city’s struggle with racism.
: Cleveland Indians to stop using Chief Wahoo logo on uniforms in 2019.
: Groups accused of supporting hate speech find alternative platforms online.
: Alex Jones claims White House ‘directly asked Corsi to be on the 8chan beat’ to cover ‘The Storm.’
: Lines blurring between immigration priorities of Trump administration and hate groups.
: Rep. Matt Gaetz goes on Infowars to complain about being labeled a conspiracy theorist.
: Judge halts deportation of prominent immigrant-rights activist detained earlier by ICE.
: Neo-Nazi group AtomWaffen SS is now alleged to be involved in five killings nationwide.
: How Texas colleges have responded to the hate groups behind all those racist flyers.
: White nationalists hang banner mocking ‘sanctuary city’ over entrance to freeway tunnel.
: White supremacist group disrupts UCSD ethnic studies class, black resource center.
: White supremacist caught with ricin told cops he had ‘dangerous’ seeds – and they let him go.
: Hearing postponed for white-nationalist suspect in Knoxville police officer’s shooting.
: Michael Taebel, arrested in Phoenix-area police chase, is self-described ‘constitutionalist.’
: Rancher Cliven Bundy, recently freed after case dismissed, sues Nevada and Clark County.
: A reminder that American Family Association is as anti-Muslim as they are anti-LGBT.
: Nearly 700,000 people have been subjected to conversion therapy, report finds.
: Victims speak about being targeted by a Pittsburgh white supremacist for being ‘race traitors.’
: Ex-sheriff David Clarke will be keynote speaker for Yellowstone County Republicans.