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News Articles: Hate Crime

Four Savannah Police Department squad cars are parked in front of one another on a brick road.

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Savannah Pride Center, police partner on LGBTQ training to 'turn the corner' on hate crime reporting

New program aims to build trust between law enforcement and LGBTQ Savannahians through expanded liaison services and officer education on bias incidents.

May 20, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
Chris Allen Villegas Fentress is shown holding a blue drink in an outdoor location.

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Savannah killing highlights safety concerns for the city's LGBTQ community

LGBTQ advocates call a March killing in Savannah a hate crime while the city's police department says there's no evidence for such an investigation.

May 06, 2025
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  • Orlando Montoya
Joseph Czuba stands before Circuit Judge Dave Carlson for his arraignment at the Will County, Ill., courthouse on Oct. 30, 2023, in Joliet, Ill.

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Man sentenced to 53 years in prison in attack on Palestinian American boy, mother

An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced to 53 years in prison.

May 02, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Greg McMichael sits with his attorney before a hearing challenging his conviction of killing Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Brunswick, Ga.

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Georgia men who killed Ahmaud Arbery want a new trial

Three white men serving life sentences for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery are asking a Georgia judge for a new trial. Greg and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan appeared Thursday before the same judge who sentenced them three years ago.

October 24, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Michail Chkhikvishvili, alleged leader of a Neo-Nazi organization, was indicted at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse on Wednesday morning for soliciting violent hate crimes. If convicted on four counts, he faces 50 years in U.S. prison.

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A neo-Nazi leader is indicted for a plot to have a Santa Claus poison children in NYC

Michail Chkhikvishvili, an alleged leader of an extremist group called the Maniac Murder Cult, outlined a detailed plan to hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and also target racial minorities.

July 19, 2024
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  • Lola Murti
In combo of undated selfie images provided courtesy of the Dime Doe family, show Dime Doe, a Black transgender woman.

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Man guilty of killing transgender woman in hate crime trial over gender identity

It was the United States' first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity. There have been hate crime prosecutions based on gender identity before, but none had reached trial.

February 24, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Rep. Esther Panitch, a Sandy Springs Democrat, argues in favor of a bill that would add antisemitism to the state’s hate crimes law. Panitch is the only Jewish state lawmaker in Georgia. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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Antisemitism definition bill signed into law

Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law Wednesday a bill that would add a definition of antisemitism to state law. It's been a long time coming for advocates who hoped to toughen penalties for those who commit a crime with antisemitic intent. State Rep. Esther Panitch, a Democrat and Georgia's lone Jewish lawmaker, spoke with GPB's Peter Biello. 

January 31, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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Ahmaud Arbery's killers get a March court date to argue appeals of their hate crime convictions

Three white men convicted of hate crimes for chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood in 2020 will have their appeals heard by a federal court in March.

January 25, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A makeshift memorial honored O'Shae Sibley in New York City earlier this month.

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A dancer's killing — over voguing — highlights the dangers Black LGBTQ Americans face

O'Shae Sibley was stabbed for voguing to Beyoncé at a New York City gas station. His death, which is being prosecuted as a hate crime, comes as anti-LGBTQ bills and incidents surge across the U.S.

August 11, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Rasheeda Williams (Koko Da Doll)

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Teen arrested in death of transgender woman from documentary

A 17-year-old is in custody in connection with the shooting death earlier this month of Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women and the dangers they face.

April 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
This image provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows Axel Cox, 24, of Gulfport, Miss. Cox, who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors in December 2020, was sentenced Thursday, March 9, 2023, to 42 months in prison.

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A man burned a cross in a hate crime. He's now sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison

Axel Cox said he chose to burn the cross in front of his Black neighbors because of their race, saying he "intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood."

March 15, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
This combination photo shows Travis McMichael (from left), William Bryan and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three men have filed appeals of their federal hate crime convictions.

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3 men found guilty in Ahmaud Arbery's murder file appeals of hate crime convictions

The 25-year-old Arbery was shot and killed after he was pursued by two of the men, who saw him running in their neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga., on Feb. 23, 2020. The third man filmed the encounter.

March 10, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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Arbery killers appeal federal hate crimes convictions

Attorneys for the convicted trio dispute that race factored into Arbery’s death.

March 09, 2023
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  • Jake Shore
A crowd gathers under a new sign designating a city roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. City officials approved the honor for Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in February 2020 after being chased by three white men in pickup trucks who spotted him running in their neighborhood. All three men were later convicted of murder and federal hate crimes.

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Town honors Ahmaud Arbery after end of hate crimes case

Ahmaud Arbery is being honored by his hometown after stiff sentences for hate crimes against the white men who chased and killed him. Dozens of people joined Arbery's family on a sweltering street corner Tuesday as Brunswick city officials unveiled signs designating a 2.7-mile roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street.

August 10, 2022
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  • Associated Press
The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Warrant served at Mar-a-Lago; State prison for Arbery's murderers; Monkeypox cases

Tuesday on Political Rewind: After the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, it's still unclear if findings could affect the Fulton County probe. Plus, the three men who murdered #AhmaudArbery will serve their time in state prison. And we'll take a look at where monkeypox cases stand across the state.

August 09, 2022
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