Hate Crime
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Shaw assault investigated as possible hate crime
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MPD officials say a group of young men followed two men through the Shaw neighborhood Sunday night and called them a derogatory term for gay men before assaulting them.
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Hate crimes down in 2011, FBI says
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Nearly 60 percent of the people who allegedly committed hate crimes were white. Some 20 percent were black.
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D.C. police call Columbia Heights assault a hate crime
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The victim told police four or five black men in their twenties shouted anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs at him before one of the men assaulted him.
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Gay couple attacked in D.C. neighborhood
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Officers say two men were walking in the 1900 block of 3rd Street when three suspects appeared and yelled homophobic slurs at them and attacked them, sending one to the hospital with severe injuries.
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Northwest stabbing a hate crime
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Three people were arrested after two adult suspects held a young person while the other stabbed him multiple times. Police are calling it a hate crime.
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Noose found at Ashburn home
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A Loudoun County resident made a stunning discovery on Monday, finding a noose at their home in Ashburn. Officials say it's potentially part of an ongoing dispute with neighbors.
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D.C. anti-gay crimes growing, but so is victims' resolve
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Leaders in the LGBT community say that a more cohesive movement against anti-gay crime in the D.C. metro area is taking shape in the wake of a series of very violent assaults and shootings.
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Columbia Heights IHOP shooting victim, Dante Thomas, speaks out on crime
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More than two weeks after he was shot during an alleged anti-gay hate crime at the Columbia Heights IHOP, 31-year-old Dante Thomas says he will not let negativity bring him down.
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Trayvon Martin shooting: Martin's parents in D.C. for hearing
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The parents of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Florida teen shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer, will be on Capitol Hill Tuesday for a congressional hearing on racial profiling and hate crimes.
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Shaima Alawadi dead: San Diego woman beaten to death in her home
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Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old mother of five who lived in suburban San Diego, was taken off life support on Saturday after being found beaten in her home. Authorities say a note found near the body indicates it may have been a hate crime.
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Protesters march after attacks on D.C.'s LGBT community
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In light of the recent series, members of the LGBT community are showing their support with a silent march through the various spots where the attacks took place.
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Columbia Heights IHOP shooting a gay hate crime, report says
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Metropolitan Police officials are now classifying the Columbia Heights IHOP shooting and two other attacks the next day as hate crimes against gay people.
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Gaithersburg vandalism investigated as a hate crime
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Police say teens shouted racial slurs at homeowners in Gaithersburg.
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D.C. Council hearing on hate crimes
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A District of Columbia Council committee is taking testimony about the police department's response to hate crimes in the city.
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Alleged hate crime: Jeep driver taunts Asian family with ethnic slurs
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A man says a group of white men shouted ethnic slurs at him and his family from a moving Jeep, and a passenger waved a gun at them. Police are investigating the hate crime.
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Two charged with hate crime in beating of transgender woman
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A Baltimore County grand jury has indicted two teens in a beating of a transgender woman at a McDonald's restaurant that was caught on video.
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Prosecutors consider hate crime charges in beating at McDonald's
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Prosecutors are reviewing further charges in the attack on a transgender person at a Baltimore County McDonald's.
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