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Teonna Brown pleaded guilty last month to assault and hate crime charges for beating Chrissy Polis, a transgender woman, in a Maryland McDonald's. In court today, she asked for a second chance, which is absolutely appalling if you've seen the viral video of Brown and a 14-year-old girl beating Polis into a seizure. (Particularly since this was Brown's second chance; She was arrested on assault charges at the same McDonald's a year earlier.) Thankfully, the judge refused to simply give Brown a pass and sentenced her to 10 years in prison, with five years suspended, along with three years of probation. More »
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The Staten Island boy charged with a hate crime for trying to rip off a classmate's hijab apparently had an accomplice — a 13-year-old girl also charged with a hate crime. The girl — and her school — have a history of infractions. More »
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A 12-year-old Staten Island boy has been charged with a hate crime for attacking a girl and trying to rip off her hijab. But his school apparently tried hard to get police to drop charges. More »
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Troy D. West Jr. allegedly punched, kicked and hurled racial slurs at army reservist Tasha Hill as she entered a Cracker Barrel in Georgia last week with her seven-year-old daughter. The FBI is investigating whether he committed a hate crime. More »
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Allen Andrade is accused of beating an 18-year-old transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher, saying, "gay things need to die." The defense argues she tricked him by claiming to be a woman. More »
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• Entirely virtual sex? Perhaps, thanks to the RealTouch, which uses lubrication jets, heating elements and other gadgetry programmed to "give men the feeling of sex." No word, of course, on what women get. • More »
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Four men were arrested this week on suspicion of gang-raping a gay woman in the San Francisco area last month. The group consisted of two men and two male teens, including Josue Gonzalez, pictured. [AP] More »
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A white woman named Karen Burton was indicted Tuesday on charges of committing a hate crime, kidnapping and malicious wounding. Burton and five others were arrested in West Virginia last September after a black woman named Megan Williams was rescued from a trailer where she was sexually assaulted, stabbed and forced to eat animal feces. Until Tuesday, no one involved in the assault had been charged with a hate crime. The prosecutor on the case says Burton stabbed Williams in the ankle while saying "This is what we do to niggers down here." Burton has two biracial grandchildren whom "she dearly loves." [CBS News] More »
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