From 30518bebf034ef67dab2081ca199c1dc1154b7b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:55:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #36. --- us_hate_crimes.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/us_hate_crimes.md b/us_hate_crimes.md index dd90ba1..8a68da3 100644 --- a/us_hate_crimes.md +++ b/us_hate_crimes.md @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ ## White supremacy - According to hate crimes researcher Brian Levin, hate crimes in nine US metropolitan areas [have risen by 20%](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) in the year following Trump's election. [1](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) +- On October 20th, 2017, after a Richard Spencer rally in Gainesville FL, 3 white supremacists from Texas drove around in a pickup truck, shouting pro-hitler slogans, and then [opened fire on a crowd of protesters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff). They drove off, and were arrested. One of them, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town. "Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things."[1](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff) - On July 14th, 2017, alt-right activist, anti-feminist, and former intern of Milo Yiannapoulous, Lane Davis, [murdered his father for calling him a nazi](https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi). - On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car toward a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide) - On May 30th, 2017, [Anthony Robert Hammond attacked a black person](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485) with a machete causing serious injuries, while shouting racial slurs, in Clearlake CA. [1](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485)