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News Articles: hate crime investigation

The Los Angeles Police Department headquarters building is seen downtown Los Angeles in July 2022. Police say they arrested a suspect in the separate shootings of two Jewish men as they left morning prayer services.

2 Jewish men were shot leaving their synagogues in LA. A suspect is in custody

Both victims survived the shootings, which happened just blocks apart early Wednesday and Thursday. City officials say the incidents are being investigated as potential hate crimes.

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  • Rachel Treisman
A screen grab from the surveillance video that recorded an attack on a woman of Asian descent in Yonkers, N.Y., on March 11. The 42-year-old male suspect has been charged with one count of attempted murder and one count of assault as a hate crime.

Man arrested for the violent hate-crime beating of an Asian woman in N.Y., police say

In a surveillance video released by police, the suspect is shown punching the victim in the face and head more than 125 times. He is being charged with attempted murder.

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  • Jonathan Franklin
A police vehicle sits in front of Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, on Jan. 16, the day after a gunman took worshippers hostage at the synagogue. Colleyville is among dozens of U.S. cities dealing with the distribution of antisemitic flyers in recent weeks.

Colleyville, Texas, is among dozens of U.S. cities blanketed with antisemitic flyers

Police are investigating the distribution of antisemitic flyers just a month after a gunman took worshippers hostage in a synagogue. Similar materials have been dropped in driveways across the U.S.

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  • Rachel Treisman
(L to R) Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan

Trial In Ahmaud Arbery Killing Set To Begin Oct. 18

The trial on state murder and assault charges will begin in October. The three defendants also face federal hate crime charges.

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Cameron Hunt and his father, Calvin Hunt, hold signs of support on Tuesday outside the West 43rd Street apartment building in Manhattan where a man physically and verbally attacked a 65-year-old Asian American woman on Monday in an incident that police are investigating as a hate crime.

Attack On Asian Woman In Manhattan, As Bystanders Watched, To Be Probed As Hate Crime

Video of the assault, as well as the seeming inaction of apartment staff standing nearby, has drawn fury in and beyond New York. State and city authorities are investigating the attack.

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  • Rachel Treisman