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Dorchester, MA
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Boston Celtics Jaylen Brown Leaves Kanye West's Donda Sports Agency Over Controversial Comments
Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown reversed his decision to stay with Kanye West's agency Donda Sports following the rap star's recent offensive comments. Brown said on Monday, Oct. 24, that while he disagreed with West's remarks, he would keep his deal with his agency. On Tuesday, he released a statement saying he wanted to clarify his position and had decided to end his relationship with the company. “In the past 24 hours, I’ve been able to reflect and better understand how my previous statements lack clarity in expressing my stance against recent insensitive public remarks and actions,”…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Hateful Images, Messages Sent To Westwood Regional Students Probed By Cyber Crime Detectives
An underage saboteur used the online account of a Westwood Regional High School student to email hateful messages to most of the victim’s classmates – among them, an image of a Ku Klux Klansman accompanied by an anti-Semitic caption, authorities said. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit and Washington Township police are investigating the bias incident, which district officials traced to a “non-district minor’s” IP address, Schools Supt. Jill Mortimer wrote in a message to parents and staff members. “Please know this was not a breach of our network or system,” Mortimer emphasiz…
Frederick, MD
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'Extremely Distributing' Social Media Post Involving Maryland HS Students Under Investigation
Social media once again reared its ugly head for officials in one Maryland school district who are investigating a hateful post made by a student, officials announced. Top officials from the Frederick County Public School District issued an alert on Thursday, Sept. 29 advising of a “disturbing social media post involving a student who attends a high school in our district.” The social media post in question contained hate speech and racial slurs, according to the district officials, who did not disclose which school was targeted by the message. “Frederick County Public Schools is committed…
Dorchester, MA
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Anti-Semitic Signs Hung Over Route 1 In Saugus Likely Linked To Neo Nazi Group
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains images that feature hate language. Drivers taking Route 1 in Saugus this weekend in were greeted with a hate-filled sign hanging from the Walnut Street overpass that blamed Jewish people for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 a day before the anniversary. Photos of the signs that quickly made the rounds on social media showed three masked men standing proudly behind the anti-semitic graffiti. A similar sign appeared in Danvers on an overpass on Route 114 Sunday, the 21st anniversary of the attacks. No group has officially taken credit for the stunt, but w…
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nazi Flier Posted Near Silver Spring Yeshiva Sparks Outrage
An antisemitic flier posted near a Jewish school in Silver Spring is spreading shockwaves through the community. The flier supporting "White-Power.org" depicts a Nazi soldier making slurs and hateful comments about the 6 million Jewish people killed in the holocaust, Stop Antisemitism reports. It was posted near the Yeshivah of Greater Washington on Thursday, June 2. We are nauseated to see this vile, antisemitic flier posted today near the Yeshivah of Greater Washington in Silver Spring, Maryland.Antisemitism in America is spiraling out of control - why is @GoDaddy continuing to host …
White Plains, NY
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Man Being Sought In NYC Subway Attack Posted Troubling, Threatening Videos Online
The man now being sought as a suspect in connection with the New York City subway attack posted dozens of troubling and threatening videos online. Frank R. James, age 62, with addresses in Philadelphia and Wisconsin, is the subject of a large manhunt by state and federal law enforcement to determine if he has any connection to the shooting rampage at the Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday, April 12 in which 10 people were shot and many others wounded. He was originally identified as a person of interest in the case on Tuesday before police officially labeled him as a suspect on Wednesd…
Bedford, NY
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Lawmaker Speaks Out On 'Bigotry, Racism' During Northern Westchester BOE Meeting
A Hudson Valley lawmaker is speaking out after several parents and residents had to be escorted by police out of a Board of Education meeting after becoming unruly and allegedly making racist comments to the crowd and board members. On Thursday, Feb. 10, multiple residents had to be removed from a Lakeland Central School District Board of Education meeting after they stirred up trouble and used racial slurs toward parents and members of the board. The Lakeland Central School District includes parts of six towns, including Yorktown, Cortlandt, and Somers in Westchester, and Carmel, Philipsto…
Mount Pleasant, NY
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Antisemitic Comments At Planning Board Meeting In Hudson Valley Spark Outrage
The is outrage in the Hudson Valley after hate speech was spewed at a community meeting. In Rockland County, a Haverstraw Planning Board meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 10 was interrupted by disparaging comments by a local resident about the growing Orthodox Jewish community. “A certain sect of people tend to walk in the street, and nobody is wearing any reflective gear," the unidentified man reportedly said. "So if I run one of them over, and of course, I’m going back over them again." The comments drew swift and decisive backlash from elected officials, from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul …
Massapequa, NY
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Police Investigating Alleged Racist Comments Made To Cast Member At Long Island Theater
A cast member at a popular Long Island theater was allegedly the target of racially charged comments, police said. The Northport Police Department received a report of an incident on Sunday, Oct. 10 involving a cast member at the Engeman Theater involving racist comments. According to police, the cast member reported to theater staff that they were subjected to the comments, which were relayed to the Northport Police Department. Police said that upon being notified of the alleged incident, officials reached out to the theater for further information as they investigated. The cast member r…
Ridgewood, NJ
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: Commuter Abuses NJ Train Conductor With Racial, Sexual Epithets
Disturbing cellphone video recorded on a New Jersey Transit train shows a man accused of assaulting a conductor spewing hateful profanity against him. The video was shot by Kore James of Paterson, who said he stopped recording and rushed to the conductor's aid when things got physical at the Ridgewood train station. James, a 28-year-old landscape architect, said Thomas Vitulano was already on the the Hoboken-bound train when he got on Monday afternoon in Allendale. "The conductor that was punching holes in tickets was coming around checking everyone's ticket," he said. "The gentleman didn…
Brookfield, CT
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Details Emerge In Case Of Fairfield County Juvenile Accused Of 'Zoombombing' Class
A Fairfield County juvenile has been arrested for allegedly taking over a high school class through Zoom and using hate speech and vulgar language. Earlier report: Juvenile Used Racial Slurs After Remotely Breaking Into Newtown HS Class The teen was arrested on a warrant Friday, May 28, by Newtown Police for the cybercrime committed last Fall, said Lt. Aaron Bahamonde. The arrest comes after a six-month-long investigation of unknown people accessing Google Classrooms, at Newtown High School and using racial epithets, in an abusive and disruptive manner, said Bahamonde. Accordin…
Englewood, NJ
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Zoom Trolls Disrupt Asian-American NJ Church Service With Ethnic Slurs, Porn
Trolls hijacked the virtual service of a predominately Asian-American church in Bergen County, uttering ethnic slurs and posting pornographic images, authorities said. More than 150 congregants and others with the Englewood church were subject to the bias attack on Zoom, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said Saturday. Although invasions of video conferences were once dismissed as trolling, that changed once the spread of COVID-19 made Zoom the app of choice for many forced to communicate remotely. The FBI considers the systemic “weaponization” of Zoom as hate speech and harassment. In o…
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