<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Police departments nationwide regularly receive a </span><a href="https://le.fbi.gov/file-repository/hate-crime-data-collection-guidelines-and-training-manual.pdf/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">document</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the DOJ entitled &#8220;Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines And Training Manual.&#8221; The point of the manual is to educate officers on how to identify hate crimes and report them to the feds for the all-important hate crime statistics you often see in the media. They were </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/hate-crimes-fbi-2017.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">everywhere</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during the Trump presidency. You still see these hate crime figures cited today, in fact. These are the statistics that supposedly prove white supremacy is the greatest threat this country has ever faced.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given all the reliance on these numbers, it&#8217;s strange that no one ever talks about the DOJ manual. You&#8217;d think there&#8217;d be some curiosity about how these numbers are determined. So I decided to read the document myself. One of the most extensive sections of the manual, as it turns out, is the &#8220;exercises&#8221; section. These are hypothetical scenarios that the DOJ provides to police departments to help illustrate hate crimes law. One of the exercises is about two gang members who assault a random Hindu person with a baseball bat. The exercise states that, &#8220;When taken into custody, the two juveniles reported they committed the assault because they want the Hindu people to go back where they came from.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you can probably guess, the DOJ&#8217;s manual instructs officers to categorize this incident as a hate crime because of  &#8220;the offenders&#8217; derogatory comments about the Hindu community.&#8221; Seems straightforward enough. If you beat someone up while yelling, &#8220;go back where you came from,&#8221; then you&#8217;re committing a hate crime. If &#8220;hate crime&#8221; means anything, then that would seem to qualify.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What&#8217;s interesting is that a real-life version of this exercise just played out earlier this month in New York City. 51-year-old Asian American Sue Young was traveling on a subway train in Greenwich Village — supposedly one of the nice areas of the city — with her husband and her 11-year-old twin girls. That&#8217;s when three black teenage girls started screaming and cursing at Sue Young. She tried to play it off. Her husband suggested the girls might be “uneducated.&#8221; A rather plausible theory, I would say. Then the teenagers </span><a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-crime-subway-f-train-assault-greenwich-vilage/13613800/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Sue Young to go back where she came from. Within seconds, one of the teenagers, a 16-year-old girl, began attacking Young. Then, for good measure, the teenager beat a bystander who recorded the incident.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given all those facts, you&#8217;d think it&#8217;s safe to call this incident a hate crime, since it pretty much mirrors exactly the scenario in the DOJ&#8217;s hate-crimes manual. &#8220;Go back where you came from&#8221; is an admission that the attack relates to the victims&#8217; national origin, race, or religion. It&#8217;s pretty straightforward to any reasonable person. But it&#8217;s not straightforward to New York police, apparently. They have </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/teen-arrested-for-assault-of-tourist-on-nyc-subway-in-viral-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">decided</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> not to charge the teenager in this case with a hate crime. They found her. They arrested her. They know she told her victim to go back to her country. But there won&#8217;t be any hate crimes charges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s not because the evidence is unclear. There&#8217;s no dispute about any of these facts. It&#8217;s all been established. Watch:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Go back where you came from,&#8221; followed by a beating. Under the DOJ&#8217;s guidelines, that&#8217;s a hate crime. It’s literally one of the exact scenarios they specify as a hate crime. But it won&#8217;t be recorded as one.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you&#8217;re the kind of person who trusts government statistics on crime — or on any topic at all — then this development is mind-blowing, to put it mildly. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that might make you ask some unapproved questions. For example, you might wonder: Is it really true, as multiple outlets have </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1027236499/anti-asian-hate-crimes-assaults-pandemic-incidents-aapi" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that the &#8220;anti-Asian hate-crime epidemic&#8221; is caused by all those MAGA Republicans that secretly live in New York and San Francisco? Are MAGA Republicans not only controlling the weather and melting the ice caps, but also patrolling the streets looking for Asians to randomly assault? Can we trust that data?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are the real numbers. As The City Journal recently </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, &#8220;While black perpetrators account for 27.5 percent of violent attacks against Asians, Asians commit less than 0.1 percent of violent attacks against blacks, indicating little role for proximity. Most violent attacks against individuals of a particular racial group are committed by other members of that group — except for Asians, where a plurality is committed by blacks. In fact, blacks are responsible for 305 percent more violent crime against Asians than neighborhood demographics would predict, while whites and Hispanics commit significantly fewer attacks against Asians than would be expected.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What this suggests is that hate-crime statistics are meaningless. Totally bogus. They misrepresent and vastly underreport the amount of anti-Asian racial violence committed by black people, particularly young black people. What happened in Sue Young&#8217;s case isn&#8217;t as unusual as it might appear.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1207-tbd-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be clear, there are many other reasons to conclude these hate-crime statistics aren&#8217;t reliable. The overwhelming majority of police departments report zero hate crimes every year, for example. You heard that right — zero hate crimes. In 2019, fewer than 15% of the nearly 16,000 jurisdictions </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a single hate crime to the DOJ, even though they participated in the DOJ&#8217;s reporting system. This is a tiny sample size we&#8217;re talking about here.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And these police departments — the few that are reporting hate crimes — are not verifying, as a legal matter, that any hate crime occurred. The hate-crime statistics don&#8217;t refer to hate crimes that have been proven. They refer to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reports</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of hate crimes, as the DOJ manual says. All it takes is a cop to code a case as &#8220;hateful,&#8221; and boom, you have a hate crime. No jury or judge is required.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are the gaping holes in the hate crimes reporting system that you never hear about. So you have to ask: Why do we have this hate-crimes system, if it&#8217;s not producing anything remotely resembling accurate results? And for that matter, even if we could measure this accurately, why does anyone bother recording hate crimes? Why not record crimes that are motivated by, say, greed or lust? Why does the &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; designation persist? As I’ve often argued, the most dangerous people in society are those motivated not by hate but by indifference to human life. Why don’t we have a separate federal category for Indifferent Crimes? Why give hate crimes this special place of honor, especially when they aren’t being recorded in any kind of honest or consistent way?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, Sue Young and her husband offer us some clues on that front. They&#8217;ve come out and given interviews absolving their attacker of personal responsibility. Watch:</span><br />
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what battles other people have in their lives, but I can imagine they&#8217;re probably not as privileged,&#8221; Sue Young&#8217;s husband said. He&#8217;s apparently justifying why he allowed his wife to be accosted right in front of him. He adds, &#8220;That probably has a lot to do with their outlook on the world and the anger they may have.&#8221; Therefore, the couple agrees, what happened to them was not a hate crime. They&#8217;re happy they took their beating instead of fighting back.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What that couple is saying out loud, without realizing it, is the real reason hate crimes persist as a category. The point of hate crimes isn&#8217;t really to measure hate. The point is to measure victimhood, where the victims happen to be the primary voting blocs of the Democratic Party. If you have &#8220;privilege&#8221; — meaning if you&#8217;re Asian or white — then hate crimes can&#8217;t happen to you. If you&#8217;re attacked because of your ethnicity, you should rationalize it. Justify the actions of your attackers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the many problems with this reasoning — other than the fact that &#8220;lack of privilege&#8221; cannot conceivably justify beating up a woman in front of her kids — is that plenty of poor people don&#8217;t commit violent crimes. We can measure this. The assumption that Sue Young and her husband have — that their attacker must have a really hard life — isn&#8217;t an explanation at all for what happened. The Twitter account &#8220;Monitoring Bias&#8221; has </span><a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">looked into</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the numbers on this. The account found that, &#8220;In NYC, where the percentage of Asians who live in poverty is close to that of blacks, the black arrest </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">rate</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for murder was 13 times higher than for Asians in 2020.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In other words, black people aren’t simply committing acts of violence because many of them are poor. The black violent crime rate is still disproportionately high even when you control for income level and economic class. The point is that these punks on the subway aren&#8217;t really &#8220;angry&#8221; or going through any great personal struggle. They are bored and spoiled, and they&#8217;ve been empowered to act however they want, with the knowledge that their behavior will always be excused no matter how heinous it is. They have no fear of any punishment. In that way, they&#8217;re like the rich Antifa kids who spit on cops or the lawyers who threw firebombs at a police cruiser during a BLM riot. They&#8217;re like the thugs who you see going into Nordstrom or the Apple store and walking out with all the merchandise. They know they&#8217;re not going to suffer immediate, severe, and long-lasting punishment. They know they might not suffer any punishment at all. They know their victims are weak and often lack the will to defend themselves. So they take advantage of it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That&#8217;s the reality. Some people won&#8217;t acknowledge it even when it hits them in the face, many times over, on the subway. They&#8217;ve been fed so many lies, including from the DOJ&#8217;s hate crimes reporting system, that they&#8217;re incapable of diagnosing the problem, much less trying to solve it. Their weakness will perpetuate violence on all sides. People can only take so many subway beatings and &#8220;random&#8221; stabbings before they start defending themselves. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Youngs were proud of themselves for not “attacking” the black teens who were harassing them. But people are growing weary of this kind of passivity — of this submissiveness in the face of lawless, violent thugs. The dam can’t hold forever. There will be a lot more Daniel Pennys coming soon. And when that happens, the DOJ will call it hateful. They&#8217;ll call it a sign of rampant white supremacy. What they&#8217;ll never admit — what they know is true — is that it will be their fault.</span></p>
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<p>Death threats and political attacks against the parental rights group Moms for Liberty have ramped up after the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) put them on its &#8220;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate map</a>&#8221; alongside the likes of the Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>Moms for Liberty said it has received more death threats and hateful messages over the last few weeks since June 6, when the SPLC released its “The Year in Hate and Extremism” <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-extremism-2022/introduction#hateextremism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> for 2022.</p>
<p>The SPLC, an uber-leftist civil rights watchdog, frequently brands conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” and this year, that <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moms-liberty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> Moms for Liberty as well as other parental rights groups like Parents Defending Education.</p>
<p>“Schools, especially, have been on the receiving end of ramped-up and coordinated hard-right attacks, frequently through the guise of ‘parents’ rights’ groups,” the SPLC said in its report.</p>
<p>Moms for Liberty is “at the forefront of this mobilization,” the SPLC said.</p>
<p>Moms for Liberty said it has received the threats through voicemails, emails, and responses on its “Contact Us” page.</p>
<p>“I will personally eradicate you from Massachusetts,” one person <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/10/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-undaunted-by-death-threats-being-treated-as-subhuman-after-splc-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, calling them &#8220;nasty sows.&#8221;</p>
<p>A person who put their name as “Execute All-Nazis” wrote, “Piece of s*** fascists like you deserve to be dragged against a wall and force-fed hot lead. Eat s*** and die.”</p>
<p>“You women have no soul, no morals, for quoting Adolf Hitler in your newsletter,” another person wrote. “The state should remove your kids and/or grand kids from your homes. Evil, evil, evil people you are!”</p>
<p>Last month, a Moms for Liberty chapter <a href="https://apnews.com/article/moms-for-liberty-adolf-hitler-newsletter-quote-bcce698e901b9e782970030ccd710512#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> in their newsletter the quote, “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future,” and cited Hitler. It later updated the newsletter with more context, saying the &#8220;quote from a horrific leader should put parents on alert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another person appeared to reference the SPLC&#8217;s report, calling Moms for Liberty &#8220;extremest [sic]&#8221; and &#8220;biggoted [sic]&#8221; in a profanity-laced rant.</p>
<p>A person who put their name as “Satan Anti-Christ” wrote that Moms for Liberty “will answer for the crimes YOU committed against our LGBTQ children (legally of course).”</p>
<p>Even an elected official joined in the name-calling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Assholes with casseroles, taliban in minivan,&#8221; tweeted Democrat New Hampshire state Representative Catherine Sofikitis.</p>
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<p>Tina Descovich, a Moms for Liberty co-founder, referenced the 2012 shooting at the conservative Family Research Council&#8217;s headquarters, which the shooter targeted after he found them online through the Southern Poverty Law Center.</p>
<p>“I don’t think you have to look any further than at the Family Research Council and how they were threatened by a shooter because of the designation as a ‘hate group,&#8217;” Descovich <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/10/exclusive-moms-for-liberty-undaunted-by-death-threats-being-treated-as-subhuman-after-splc-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
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<p>“It gave people permission to treat us as subhuman,” Tiffany Justice, another Moms for Liberty co-founder, told The Daily Signal, saying critics are trying to “whip people up into such a frenzy that they end up sending death threats to me and to the members and our children.”</p>
<p>“Designating us as a hate group gives people permission to dehumanize us, and the SPLC knows it,” Justice said.</p>
<p>Moms for Liberty was started in 2021 by two former school board members responding to COVID restrictions in schools. Since then, the group has expanded its fight to include issues like sexual content in curricula and school libraries, gender pronoun <a href="https://www.momsforliberty.org/media/files/pages-page/6d92a117/10questionsparentsshouldask.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a> in schools, declining <a href="https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty/status/1652730841682923520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grades</a> and test scores, and <a href="https://www.momsforliberty.org/news/-parents-revolted-against-critical-race-theory-heres-how-they-won/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial</a> curriculum content with leftist overtones.</p>
<p>Members of Moms for Liberty often show up to school board meetings around the country, sometimes wearing matching t-shirts reading, “We do NOT CO-PARENT with the GOVERNMENT.”</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> church was vandalized with LGBTQ graffiti and was subject to a 150-person </span><a href="https://www.newsbreak.com/marblehead-ma/3062487217997-peaceful-protest-outside-grace-community-church-after-pride-flag-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">protest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> after it evicted a preschool that hung Pride flags on church property.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grace Community Church, located near Salem, Massachusetts, was targeted with spray paint on its outer wall that read, “Stay Gay. Stay Hard. Love is 4 everyone” with a crude rainbow drawn between the words.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The vandalism </span><a href="https://www.salemnews.com/news/church-vandalized-after-parishioners-remove-pride-flags-from-preschool-run-by-gay-couple/article_3e969688-0bbb-11ee-923a-2760b5c3d16b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">occurred</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> amid the church’s battle with Mike Richmond, a gay man who owns Pleasant Street Preschool, which rents out a Sunday school classroom from the church. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The school posted Pride flags outside the classroom, and Richmond recorded a </span><a href="https://www.salemnews.com/pride-flags-outside-grace-community-church/video_fdc22338-0bbb-11ee-986b-2bd04cc4c2b3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of two church members, Richard and Anne Steadman, removing the flags he posted outside the church. As Richmond and his boyfriend, Ryan Thompson, approached the couple, they engaged in a verbal dispute.</span></p>
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<p>“Why are you guys taking down the pride flags?” Richmond asked as the two men crossed the street to the church.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Because it’s a church that does not celebrate — you can have your time, but we don’t want to celebrate it if we don’t have to,” Mrs. Steadman said. “We’re also a church that believes in the Bible.” She added, “We have the freedom to do both things.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But what’s the message you’re sending to the children?” Richmond pushed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The female churchgoer replied, “The message is that we honor your business, but you should honor our beliefs.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You’ll take our money, but you won’t celebrate who we are?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can celebrate who you are, but we don’t have to,” Steadman answered before the video ends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the incident, Richmond </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CteBXmxOX9M/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">accused</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the church of homophobia on the school’s official Instagram, saying the “real reason I’m being booted has become clear.” After the Sunday protest, he </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtoyaQhOR8s/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">posted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the protest was “only the beginning of the battle against intolerance and injustice,” saying the town needed to “face the uncomfortable truth about the underlying bigotry in the heart of this town.”</span></p>
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<p>The school owner later said that the school would close immediately because he and the children’s parents “don’t feel safe” continuing to run the school in the church building, according to the <a href="https://marbleheadcurrent.org/2023/06/18/peaceful-protest-outside-grace-community-church-after-pride-flag-controversy/?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marblehead Current</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also emailed Pastor David Brame and the church elders about the incident and the church’s March request that the school leave the property in three months. The church elders replied to Richmond’s email, making no mention of the incident. According to The Marblehead Current, the church denied trying to kick the school out, and the church knew the couple was gay before approving their lease.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We wanted more flexibility and access to the space we are currently leasing to you,” the reply said. “Once you shared that this step would likely put you and your partner out of a job, and that the families who had just signed up for the ‘23-’24 school year had little time to find substitute day care, we reconsidered and extended your lease, not wanting to cause harm to your business and hardship for your enrolled families.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Marblehead Pride Committee also decried the vandalism. However, Peyton Pugmire, a member of the MPC, condemned the church, saying, “For a church or any organization in our small town to act in that way … in a town where kindness rules the day, is surprising. For this church to choose to discriminate and behave so hatefully is shocking.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite his ongoing dispute with Grace Community Church, Richmond condemned the vandalism in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CtkC_6OOcUq/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on the preschool’s Instagram page. He told The Salem News he reported the vandalism to Marblehead police when he arrived at the church Friday morning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The controversy engaged many local LGBTQ activists and faith leaders and came amid a broader national conversation surrounding religious liberty and LGBTQ ideology. Recently, LGBTQ activists have clashed with both </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-muslim-and-christian-parents-show-up-in-force-to-protest-lgbt-books-at-maryland-school-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christians</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-muslim-city-council-bans-lgbt-pride-flag-from-city-property" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muslims</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Additionally, controversy erupted when middle schoolers </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/middle-schoolers-accused-of-homophobia-after-chanting-usa-tearing-down-pride-decorations" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">protested</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> their Massachusetts school’s Pride Month celebration in nearby Burlington, Massachusetts.</span></p>


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Church Protested, Vandalized With LGBTQ Graffiti After Evicting Preschool That Hung Pride Flags

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LGBTQ

Massachusetts

Preschool

Protest

Religious Liberty

Social Issues

U.S.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A black man in Tulsa, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oklahoma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oklahoma</a>, was charged with murdering two white men in what appeared to be execution-style slayings last month, and authorities are calling it a racially motivated hate crime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carlton Gilford, a homeless man, allegedly shot two men in the back of the head at two separate locations on April 18, according to the Tulsa Police Department, Fox News </span><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/black-man-charged-murdering-two-white-strangers-oklahoma-because-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Lundin Hathcock, 35, was shot around 9:40 a.m. at the Rudisill Library, and James McDaniel, 55, was shot at a QuikTrip convenience store. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler said that evidence suggests Gilford shot both men because they were white, and he has been charged with a hate crime for his alleged killings.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;The allegation in this charge is that race or color played a role in these shootings,&#8221; Kunzweiler told </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fatal-shooting-two-white-men-sparks-hate-crime-charges-1798721" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newsweek</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. &#8220;Based upon the investigation, we have reason to believe that race played a role in the homicides. That evidence will be presented in front of a judge or jury. Mr. Gilford has the presumption of innocence until proven guilty by a judge or jury.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The suspect allegedly walked up behind Hathcock while he was sitting at a desk and shot him in the back of the head. Hathcock was rushed to a hospital where he later died. Gilford then allegedly went to the nearby convenience store and shot McDaniel in the same manner before firing another shot at him after he fell to the ground. McDaniel died at the scene.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Authorities said that surveillance footage from the QuikTrip store showed Gilford firing at a security guard and another person outside the store. The suspected murderer was detained when officers arrived on the scene and he allegedly admitted to killing the two strangers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The investigation into the two deadly shootings is ongoing at this time and Detectives are still working to learn a motive,” the Tulsa Police Department said in a </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tulsapolice/posts/pfbid02Kw2tVCXhT92ZFfta5iFvZSVT8jFo9Q1cji4n8YQmzg7CodgqQVvtTGoVkigkLkHQl" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gilford was charged with two counts of shooting with intent to kill, and one count of malicious intimidation or harassment, which is Oklahoma’s version of a hate crime, according to Fox News. The suspected murderer is being held without bond and is expected to appear in court on June 23.</span></p>


Tulsa Murder Suspect Carlton Gilford

Man Charged With Hate Crime After Allegedly Shooting Two Strangers Execution Style Because They Were White

Murder

Oklahoma

Race

<p>Sen. <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) called on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> Director Christopher Wray and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-homeland-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homeland Security</a> Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to open a federal <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate crime</a> investigation into the Monday shooting at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian</a> elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee.</p>
<p>Police say a 28-year-old woman who identified as a transgender man killed three 9-year-old children and three adults at The Covenant School, which is associated with the conservative evangelical Covenant Presbyterian Church. Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that the shooter, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with company policy, executed a “targeted attack” and left behind a “manifesto.”</p>
<p>Hawley contended that the nature of the fatal shooting might indicate a specific desire to harm Christians. “Yesterday the nation witnessed the vicious murder of small schoolchildren in Nashville, Tennessee,” he wrote in a <a href="https://twitter.com/hawleymo/status/1640723786713427970?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the senior Biden administration officials. “It is commonplace to call such horrors ‘senseless violence.’ But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was ‘targeted’ — targeted, that is, against Christians.”</p>
<p>The Republican lawmaker added that federal law criminalizes acts of violence based on their actual or perceived “religion.” Police detectives <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-we-know-about-the-nashville-christian-school-shooting-that-left-six-dead">believe</a> the shooter had “some resentment&#8221; for having to attend that school.</p>
<p>“I urge you to immediately open an investigation into this shooting as a federal hate crime,” Hawley continued. “The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear to determine how this crime occurred, and who may have influenced the deranged shooter to carry out these horrific crimes. Hate that leads to violence must be condemned. And hate crimes must be prosecuted.”</p>
<p>The suspected shooter executed her attack the same week the Trans Radical Activist Network <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-activists-called-for-day-of-vengeance-before-nashville-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for a “day of vengeance.”</p>
<p>The students killed in the shooting were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all 9 years old. Dr. Katherine Koonce, the school’s 60-year-old principal, was also killed, as were 61-year-old staffers Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill.</p>
<p>Hallie was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the senior minister at Covenant Presbyterian Church.</p>
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<p>The suspected shooter sent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-sent-chilling-messages-to-a-friend-moments-before-entering-christian-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">messages</a> to her former middle school basketball teammate moments before the attack, saying she was “planning to die today” and that the friend would “probably hear” about her on the news. “My family doesn’t know what I’m about to do,” she added. “One day this will make more sense. I’ve left more than enough evidence behind.”</p>
<p>Officers from the Metro Nashville Police Department responded minutes after the shooter breached The Covenant School. A team of five officers immediately rushed into the building, and two of the officers exchanged fire with the shooter, killing her at the scene.</p>
<p>Local authorities and the FBI searched the suspect&#8217;s home on Monday afternoon, uncovering a “manifesto” along with maps of the school drawn in detail that included points of entry. The police chief said authorities have a theory on the motive, which they are not yet ready to share.</p>


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Josh Hawley Calls For Federal Hate Crime Investigation Into Shooting At Nashville Christian School

Josh Hawley Calls For FBI To Examine Whether Nashville Christian School Shooting Was A Hate Crime

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Crime

Department of Homeland Security

Josh Hawley

Nashville

Tennessee

<p>Americans who claim to be transgender were the victims of 271 hate crimes in 2021, with few of the crimes being serious, undercutting claims that the community is facing &#8220;genocide,&#8221; according to FBI <a href="https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> released this week.</p>
<p>Of the 177 cases where the offender&#8217;s race was known, 81 offenders were black, about 60 were white, 20 were Hispanic, and one was Asian. Still, even that data could be misleading as FBI statistics inflate the number of &#8220;white&#8221; hate crime perpetrators by counting most Hispanics and Arabs as &#8220;white.&#8221; To a limited extent, the data can be adjusted to treat Hispanic as a race separate from black and white, which The Daily Wire did in the above numbers, but in many cases the &#8220;ethnicity&#8221; was not even recorded, forcing them to be treated as white.</p>
<p>Although Arab is counted as a separate category when it comes to the victim, there is no such category for perpetrators, leaving them to generally be counted as white. People of Arab descent have been behind some anti-Jewish crimes and their inclusion in statistics could change the anti-transgender breakdown as well.</p>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 100%; float: left;">50%</div>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 74%; float: left;">37%</div>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 24%; float: left;">12%</div>
</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">0.6%</div>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 100%; float: left;">6.5x</div>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 15%; float: left;">1x</div>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 15%; float: left;">1x</div>
</td>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Asian</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 0%; float: left;">0.016x</div>
</td>
</tr>
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<p>The data does not support the notion widely pushed by activists and Democrats that there is a &#8220;genocide&#8221; of transgenders underway.</p>
<p>The Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) said it is planning a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-radicals-plan-day-of-vengeance-in-d-c-alongside-firearms-training">&#8220;Trans Day of Vengeance&#8221;</a> on March 31 in D.C. to &#8220;stop trans genocide,&#8221; and also fundraised for firearms training, which it said was for self-defense.</p>
<p>Of the 271 crimes against transgenders, the FBI data reported two slayings and two rapes. Of the remainder, 70 were incidents of &#8220;intimidation.&#8221; There were 48 aggravated assaults, 87 simple assaults, eight robberies, 14 thefts, and 37 instances of vandalism or damage.</p>
<p>The data comes from law enforcement divisions that report hate crime information to the FBI and includes jurisdictions covering 300 million of the 330 million Americans.It was released March 13 as a &#8220;supplement&#8221; to a less comprehensive dataset previously released. The supplemental data provides less detail, but original data shows one anti-trans killing committed by a black offender, one incident of robbery and sodomy by a black offender, and two instances or rape or sodomy by offenders whose race was unreported.</p>
<p>There were 869 victims of anti-Jewish crimes, by far the largest example of religious bigotry. That vastly outnumbered the 278 victims of anti-trans crimes, as well as the 190 victims of anti-Muslim incidents, despite an effort by groups like CAIR to suggest persistent &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; puts Muslims at risk.</p>
<p>When it comes to all forms of hate crimes, blacks made up 27% of known-race offenders, while making up 13% of the U.S. population.</p>
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<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Total</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 93%; float: left;">278</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Killing</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">2</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Rape</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 1%; float: left;">2</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Aggravated assault</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 16%; float: left;">48</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Simple assault</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 29%; float: left;">87</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Intimidation</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 23%; float: left;">70</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Robbery</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 3%; float: left;">8</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Theft/burglary</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 4%; float: left;">14</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="width: 30%;">Vandalism</td>
<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: #3968ff; width: 12%; float: left;">37</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Based on the FBI data, a black person&#8217;s chance of being the victim of a hate crime in a given year is 98 in a million, a Jewish person stands a 109 in a million chance, and Muslims and transgenders&#8217; chance is less than half of that.</p>


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FBI Stats On 2021 Anti-Trans Hate Crimes Don’t Support Claims Of ‘Genocide’

FBI Stats On 2021 Anti-Trans Hate Crimes Don't Support Claims Of 'Genocide'

Jewish

Transgender

<p style="font-weight: 400;">The two Nigerian brothers who say they were paid by actor Jussie Smollett to stage an attack on him in January 2019, engendering an outcry from the political Left including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, are speaking out about the incident and its aftermath for the first time.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Smollett, the former “Empire” star who paid $3,500 to Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, has never admitted that the attack, which he claimed was perpetrated by white supremacists, was a hoax. The brothers said that the attack was a hoax after they were in jail for nearly two days. Smollett was convicted of five felony counts of disorderly conduct in December 2021. In March 2022, he was sentenced to 150 days in county jail but only ended up spending six days behind bars after an appeal.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“The police did ask us what Jussie&#8217;s motive was, but Jussie did not really tell me a motive,” Abimbola told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/brothers-in-jussie-smollett-hoax-break-silence-say-actor-wanted-to-be-poster-child-for-activism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Nation</a>. “[But] from what he was speaking about, or talking about, I would say what he wanted to accomplish was to increase his star level.&#8221;</p>
<p>The comments were made in an interview for a new Fox Nation documentary called &#8220;Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“He wanted to be the poster child for activism,” Olabinjo said, as Abimbola added, “That’s what I wanted to say. He wanted to be the hero for gay people, for black people,” The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11856587/Brothers-paid-Jussie-Smollett-attack-Chicago-street-break-silence.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported.</a></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a fraud,” Abimbola said, referencing Smollett’s attitude in interviews after the incident. “This guy is really just sitting here, lying to these people. Lying through his teeth, and not caring. &#8230; I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done. I didn&#8217;t know what to do — I wasn&#8217;t ready to say anything. Like, I was mute. And I didn&#8217;t want to say anything.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Insane. That&#8217;s when I really saw a different side of Jussie,” he said. “Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a supervillain.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">When the interviewer asked the brothers if they were “believable white supremacists,” Abimbola laughed. “One hundred percent! Look at me!” he said.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Abimbola claimed that Smollett would ask him to “help him procure or get weed, and different types of paraphernalia. &#8230; He would ask me to do it because he’s not from Chicago, and he wanted to keep a lower profile. &#8230; He did not want to get the drug dealer’s number – he wanted me to be the middleman and to get the drugs for him.”</p>
<p>At the time, the Smollett hoax was quickly picked up as a talking point by major Democrats, including Biden.</p>
<p>Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1090422326783606784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, &#8220;What happened today to<a href="https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett"> @JussieSmollett</a> must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.” Harris <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called the incident</a> a “modern-day lynching.”</p>


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‘Like A Supervillain’: Nigerian Brothers Hired By Jussie Smollett Speak Out For First Time

Nigerian Brothers Hired By Jussie Smollett Speak Out For First Time

Chicago

Joe Biden

Jussie Smollett

Nigeria

<p>The &#8220;non-binary&#8221; gunman in the deadly gay nightclub <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting</a> in Colorado Springs, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a>, ran a website with neo-Nazi content, according to a police detective involved in the case.</p>
<p>Detective Rebecca Joines testified on Wednesday in a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is evidence of a motive to support hate crime charges against the alleged 22-year-old shooter, whom The Daily Wire is not naming in keeping with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety.</p>
<p>The suspect, a biological male, identifies as &#8220;non-binary&#8221; and uses the pronouns &#8220;they/them,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.koaa.com/news/covering-colorado/suspect-in-club-q-shooting-arrested-on-10-charges-including-first-degree-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a court filing by</a> public defender Joseph Archambault.</p>
<p>The prosecution argued evidence shows he had an “aversion to the LGBTQ community,&#8221; inspired by what Joines described as a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” shooting training video, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/22/colorado-springs-shooter-nazi-club-q/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Post</a>.</p>
<p>Joines said the alleged shooter served as an administrator of a site featuring clips of mass shootings and stated her belief that he was trying to copy other mass shootings, including those in mosques and synagogues, and noted evidence suggests the suspect considered live-streaming the attack, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/colorado-springs-crime-hate-crimes-d2379dce03c66ea3bc0faa2c5ffb7c21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per the Associated Press</a>.</p>
<p>In addition, Joines talked about other online activities while presenting evidence. On Discord, the suspect shared an image of a rifle scope trained on a gay pride parade, Joines testified. Joines also said the alleged gunman used gay and racial slurs when playing video games.</p>
<p>He is accused of killing five people at Club Q last November while armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun, and wearing a tan ballistic vest. The attack also resulted in more than a dozen other people being injured. Patrons managed to subdue the suspect until police arrived.</p>
<p>In addition to hate crime charges, the alleged killer faces murder and attempted murder charges. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison without parole.</p>
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<p>Joines said friends claim the alleged shooter&#8217;s mother is &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; and forced her child to go to LGBTQ clubs.</p>
<p>Defense attorneys have argued their client, who has not yet entered a plea, is not anti-LGBTQ. They said he was taking a variety of mental health medications, suffered from sleep deprivation, and was abused at home.</p>
<p>A judge ruled on Thursday in favor of a jury trial and ordered the alleged shooter be held without bond. Arraignment is scheduled for May 30, and the judge ordered the man to undergo a mental health evaluation, <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/local/club-q-suspect-gets-jury-trial-being-held-without-bond/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to FOX31 Denver</a>.</p>
<p>Unsealed documents show the alleged shooter was previously arrested and faced charges in a 2021 bomb threat case in which he threatened family members and allegedly shared plans to become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-colorado-shooter-vowed-to-become-next-mass-killer-year-before-club-q-shooting-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the “next mass killer.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The charges were dropped when family members refused to cooperate with authorities, but the guns seized from the suspect at the time were not returned, according to El Paso County District Attorney Michael Allen.</p>


Club Q

Detective Testifies ‘Non-Binary’ Colorado Springs Shooter Ran Neo-Nazi Site

Detective Testifies 'Non-Binary' Colorado Springs Shooter Ran Neo-Nazi Site

Colorado

nonbinary

Shooting

<p>Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sheila-jackson-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sheila Jackson Lee</a> (D-TX) filed legislation last week to codify &#8220;conspiracy to commit white supremacy&#8221; in federal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hate-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate crime</a> laws.</p>
<p>The Leading Against White Supremacy Act, introduced days after the beginning of the new Congress, would <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/61/text/ih?overview=closed&amp;format=xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enable</a> the Department of Justice to prevent “violent activity” in relation to white supremacy ideology. The bill does not define white supremacy. Nevertheless, it adds “white supremacy based motivation against any person” to existing statutes that already introduce penalties for crimes perpetrated against another person because of “race, color, religion, or national origin.”</p>
<p>The bill defines “conspiracy to engage in white supremacy inspired hate crime” as an activity “between two or more persons engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.” At least one of the two or more conspirators must have published material advancing “white supremacist ideology,” “replacement theory,” or any “hate speech” directed against non-white groups on social media or other platforms where the content could be “viewed by persons who are predisposed to engaging in any action in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime.”</p>
<p>Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/jacksonleetx18/status/1614898541935083520?s=46&amp;t=nmw6FkSXxXLIo_svsr87Kw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said that “white supremacy” represents a “major domestic terrorist threat” during a social media exchange with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) about the legislation. Wray indeed <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/threats-to-the-homeland-evaluating-the-landscape-20-years-after-911-wray-092121" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> lawmakers two years ago that extremists who “advocate for the superiority of the white race” were the primary source of lethal attacks perpetrated by violent domestic extremists in 2018 and 2019.</p>
<p>Whistleblowers have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fbi-official-to-address-whistleblower-claims-alleging-agency-inflated-domestic-terrorism-numbers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed</a> pressure from within the law enforcement agency to reclassify cases as “domestic violent extremism” when the circumstances do not merit such a distinction. A <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/legacy_files/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-07-27-JDJ-to-Wray-re-domestic-violent-extremists32.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> sent to Wray last year by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asserted that the FBI&#8217;s decision to manipulate domestic violent extremist data “cheapens actual examples of violent extremism.”</p>
<p>The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/19/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-advances-equity-and-opportunity-for-black-americans-and-communities-across-the-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> internal efforts to “root out white supremacy and extremism” within agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security. Left-wing activist organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/01/06/jan-6-anniversary-two-years-later" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> that entities such as the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes have successfully “infused once-marginalized, white supremacist ideas into mainstream Republican discourse and politics with the goal of maintaining a grip on power and silencing communities of color.”</p>
<p>Lee, who has served in the House of Representatives for nearly three decades, formerly supported a bill that would have launched a commission to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-judiciary-committee-to-vote-on-creating-slavery-reparations-commission-to-address-deep-seeded-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> the possibility of slavery reparations. She later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sitting-congresswoman-claims-that-reparations-could-have-slowed-the-spread-of-covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that reparations for African-Americans “could have cut COVID-19 transmission and infection rates both among blacks and the population at large.&#8221;</p>


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House Democrat Files Bill To Prosecute ‘Conspiracy To Commit White Supremacy’

Sheila Jackson Lee Files Bill To Prosecute 'Conspiracy To Commit White Supremacy'

Christopher Wray

Congress

Department of Justice

domestic terrorism

Sheila Jackson Lee

White Supremacy

<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland marked the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah with a call for Americans to come together to oppose a &#8220;disturbing&#8221; rise in anti-Semitism and other acts of bigotry.</p>
<p>At this year&#8217;s National Hanukkah Menorah lighting, an annual event sponsored by the American Friends of Lubavitch at the White House Ellipse, Garland, who is Jewish, gave his remarks a personal edge by sharing his family&#8217;s harrowing story of escaping the Holocaust in Europe and finding refuge in the United States. Living without fear of persecution under the protection of the law &#8220;is what distinguishes America from so many other countries,&#8221; Garland said.</p>
<p>As attorney general, he vowed, &#8220;I will never stop working to guarantee that protection to everyone in our country. All of us at the Department of Justice will never stop working to confront and combat violence and other unlawful acts fueled by hate. That is our legal obligation. But now more than ever, all Americans have a moral obligation to stand up against such hate. Together, we must stand up against the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and together we must stand up against bigotry in any of its forms. Our democracy depends on it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Garland&#8217;s message about anti-Semitism follows that of FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said last month that anti-Semitism remains <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/10/fbi-director-wray-antisemitism-remains-pervasive-fact/8322469001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;a pervasive and present fact&#8221;</a> that threatens Jewish communities. Wray said this on the same day <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/us/new-jersey-arrest-attack-threats-synagogues/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a man was arrested</a> in connection to what the FBI warned was a &#8220;credible&#8221; threat to New Jersey synagogues.</p>
<p>The Anti-Defamation League <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/adl-audit-finds-antisemitic-incidents-united-states-reached-all-time-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a report in April</a>, saying the group received 2,717 reports of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2021, a 34% increase from 2020 and the highest number since ADL began tracking them.</p>
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<p>Building upon Wray&#8217;s vow to protect Jewish communities against threats, Garland said the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;mission is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect the civil rights of everyone in this country,&#8221;</p>
<p>At the close of his remarks, before the lighting of the giant menorah on the Ellipse, Garland again gave his message a personal touch.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a descendant of those who fled persecution because they were Jewish, it is especially meaningful to be here tonight as we light this menorah in our nation&#8217;s capital and under the protection of its laws,&#8221; Garland said. &#8220;May we never stop working to ensure that Americans will always be able to gather today as we are doing tonight to light the Menorah.&#8221;</p>


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Garland Calls For Stand Against ‘Disturbing’ Rise In Anti-Semitism At National Menorah Lighting

Anti-Semitism

Judaism

Religion

<p>The shooter who allegedly <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> 10 people in May at a supermarket in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/buffalo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffalo</a>, <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a>, pleaded guilty on Monday morning.</p>
<p>The 19-year-old man, whom The Daily Wire will not name in accordance with a policy of depriving mass shooters of undeserved notoriety, pleaded guilty to all charges in the grand jury indictment, including murder, murder as a hate crime, and hate-motivated domestic terrorism, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-crime-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-4a4dcf6e12c598d1f0a372227760b93f?taid=6384d7b553703a000196316e&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press.</p>
<p>Law enforcement officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect-had-been-flagged-as-troubled-a-year-ago-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the suspect, who allegedly drove three-and-a-half hours from Broome County, New York, to the Tops Friendly Market because it is frequented by African-Americans, was on authorities’ radar after allegedly threatening fellow high school students last year. “A school official reported that this very troubled young man had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after,” a government official familiar with the case <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/mass-shooter-accused-of-pure-evil-killing-of-10-in-buffalo-hate-crime-named-in/article_f9ef9bac-d3d9-11ec-9eaf-cbcafe308f9c.html#tracking-source=home-top-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Buffalo News.</p>
<p>The shooter allegedly arrived at the grocery store on May 14 wearing tactical gear and carrying a rifle, shooting four people outside before entering the building. He allegedly shot eight more people while inside and killed security guard and former Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, who attempted to stop him. The gunman allegedly live-streamed the murder spree on Twitch using a camera strapped to his helmet.</p>
<p>The charge of hate-motivated domestic terrorism requires an automatic sentence of life without parole. The shooter reportedly painted a number of <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/buffalo-shooters-weapons-covered-white-supremacist-messaging" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racist symbols</a> and phrases onto the weapons he carried during the attack, including the phrase “White Lives Matter,” the Celtic Cross symbol used by neo-Nazis, and references to “black-on-white” crimes.</p>
<p>&#8220;The past 24 hours have been traumatizing for New Yorkers, and my administration will spare no effort to ensure the victims of this act of terrorism by a white supremacist are receiving all the resources and support they need,&#8221; Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) said in a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-state-resources-available-buffalo-community-response-horrific" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> after the shooting. &#8220;The entire world is watching how we will come together as New Yorkers to overcome this unthinkable tragedy.”</p>
<p>Hochul has since <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-actions-prevent-hate-crimes-and-protect-new-yorkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a number of measures “taking bold action to reclaim our city and state from the haters, bigots and white supremacists,” including the promotion of $50 million in grants for projects to combat hate crimes.</p>
<p>The shooter posted a manifesto online detailing his intentions to livestream an attack against African-Americans, according to an earlier <a href="https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-19514b0c6524bd428f4167ad9b490a12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press. He had allegedly scouted the store two months before the attack, practiced shooting from his car, posted hand-drawn maps of the grocery store, and counted the number of African-Americans present at certain locations in the building.</p>
<p>Ahead of the attack, the shooter allegedly communicated with at least six individuals in a chatroom. One <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-federal-agent-in-texas-may-have-known-in-advance-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Buffalo Times indicated that a retired federal agent was present in the chatroom and may have known about the shooting half an hour in advance. The outlet was unable to determine if the retired agent accepted the invitation to the chat in which the shooter wrote about his plan, but federal law enforcement verified that no one who regularly visited the chatroom called emergency services to warn of the pending massacre.</p>


Mass Shooting in Buffalo New York Leaves 10 Dead

Buffalo Shooter Pleads Guilty To Domestic Terrorism And Hate Crime Charges

Buffalo Shooter Pleads Guilty

Buffalo

Mass Shooting

New York

<p>Would you be surprised if a recent string of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate crimes</a>&#8221; against a popular New York City gay bar were actually carried out by a gay man?</p>
<p>Of course not, you&#8217;re a reader of The Daily Wire and well-educated on hate crime hoaxes. Nonetheless, let&#8217;s talk about a recent story out of the Big Apple.</p>
<p>Over the last month, VERS, a gay bar in Hell&#8217;s Kitchen has experienced four separate incidents of an individual throwing bricks through its windows.</p>
<p>Immediately, New York leftists declared it was evidence of something sinister.</p>
<p>&#8220;The epidemic of anti-LGBTQ+ violence is national,&#8221; Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine tweeted. &#8220;A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s west side has been attacked repeatedly in recent weeks. We can not stand for this.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The epidemic of anti-LGBTQ+ violence is national.</p>
<p>A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s west side has been attacked repeatedly in recent weeks. We can not stand for this. <a href="https://t.co/Ur1mv4RPK0">https://t.co/Ur1mv4RPK0</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1594401119316414473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>New York City Councilmember Erik Bottcher, who represents the area, said definitively, &#8220;These are hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This man has thrown bricks at the window of <a href="https://twitter.com/versbarnyc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@versbarnyc</a> FOUR times in recent weeks. These are hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community. Please help us identify him. If you have any information, please contact <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDHateCrimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYPDHateCrimes</a> at hctf@nypd.org or 1-888-440-HATE. <a href="https://t.co/GNuAMbyi7S">pic.twitter.com/GNuAMbyi7S</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) <a href="https://twitter.com/ebottcher/status/1594383908338008065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Except, Bottcher botched his claims.</p>
<p>The suspect currently in custody for the attacks is 34-year-old Sean Kuilan.</p>
<p>Kuilan is not being charged with a hate crime.</p>
<p>Why not? Well, he&#8217;s gay.</p>
<p>According to The New York Post, New York Chief of Detectives James Essig <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/suspect-in-custody-in-weekend-brick-attack-at-hells-kitchen-gay-bar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> the suspect vandalized the place in defense of some gal he knows.</p>
<p>“Basically, what he says [is] he knows a girl who had a problem with one of the guys in the bar and he was ‘exacting revenge,’” Essig told the paper. “As of right now we don’t have any reason to believe it is [a hate crime].”</p>
<p>Indeed, Kuilan told authorities, &#8220;I’m gay myself,&#8221; as they took him out of the paddywagon and into court earlier this week.</p>
<p>Unlike other hate crime hoaxes, the suspect here doesn&#8217;t appear as if he is trying to perpetuate a false narrative.</p>
<p>For example, Jussie Smollett, perhaps the most famous hate crime hoax, used his celebrity status to push the notion that roaming bands of MAGA thugs were traversing through Chicago in the dead of night beating up Hollywood celebrities for being gay and liberal.</p>
<p>It obviously wasn&#8217;t true, but much of legacy media spun the narrative that conservatives had unleashed hate across the country.  Smollett was all too eager to go along with it, perhaps to boost his own street cred in the entertainment industry.</p>
<p>Kuilan just seems like a guy seeking &#8220;revenge&#8221; — whatever that means — on behalf of his friend. There is no evidence that he was also using the crimes to push the idea that there is a wave of anti-LGBTQ violence.</p>
<p>As it stands, Bottcher and Levine&#8217;s tweets about the matter are still posted. So, as far as their followers are concerned, VERS was attacked due to homophobia and bigotry — which doesn&#8217;t appear to be true.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t expect them to retract their statements either. The Left never lets the truth get in the way of a good story that advances their cause.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


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Narrative Busted: Man Throwing Bricks At NYC Gay Bar Was Actually A Gay Man Enacting ‘Revenge,’ Police Say

Narrative Busted: Man Throwing Bricks At NYC Gay Bar Was Actually A Gay Man Enacting 'Revenge,' Police Say

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