Colorado prosecutors have charged three people for allegedly staging a Jussie Smollett-esque hate crime in order to benefit the Nigerian-American now-mayor of Colorado Springs during his 2023 race.
An Ohio man faces multiple criminal charges after claiming to be the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime, in what police believe was a completely fabricated story.
A German politician has been fined $3,800 for painting a swastika and runes on his own car and home before going to the police.
Abimbola (Abel) and Olabinjo (Ola) Osundairo, the Nigerian-born brothers who disgraced actor Jussie Smollett infamously paid to stage his fake hate crime in 2019, recently broke their silence on the incident, condemning Smollett as a “fraud” who “was like a super villain” when he tried to deceive the public so that he could become a “poster boy for activism.”
UK Police are too busy responding to trivial social media spats to tackle serious crime, the new head of the Police Federation has said, after years of forces encouraging “hate crime” reports for offensive comments.
Authorities have arrested and charged a woman in Long Island for making up a story about a Trump-related hate crime, police said.
Riley County, Kansas, police declined to charge a 21-year-old man after he admitted to inscribing racist graffiti on his own vehicle after first reporting it as a crime.
An African American man in Tennessee was arrested for allegedly posing as a local white business owner and writing hoax letters pretending the businessman was a racist who was planning attacks on local black leaders.
The Council of Europe has claimed the UK media, “online sources”, and “certain politicians” are inciting “hate speech” and “hate crimes”, and demands the state strengthens “mechanisms” to “tone down” and silence such voices.
A Facebook page called, “Racist Attacks and Discrimination in Austria” claimed that a 14-year-old Muslim girl had been attacked and thrown onto a railway track, but police say the story is fiction.
Yasmin Seweid disappeared. Then her story did.
A North Park University student fabricated a story where she claimed that President-Elect Donald Trump supporters had sent her “hateful” notes and emails following the 2016 Election, local police confirmed.
