diff --git a/us_hate_crimes.md b/us_hate_crimes.md index 00108a3..d11417f 100644 --- a/us_hate_crimes.md +++ b/us_hate_crimes.md @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ - On November 23rd, 2015, a group of well-armed 4chan regulars attended a Black Lives Matter camp in Minneapolis, harassing them with racial slurs. [They opened fire on activists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark#Protest_reaction) attempting to chase them out when they returned a second night, wounding five. Only one of the men was charged, resulting in a 15 year sentence. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark#Protest_reaction) - On July 23rd, 2015, John Russell Houser, a far-right former bar owner, [shot and killed two people and injured nine others](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Lafayette_shooting) before committing suicide in a Lafayette, LA movie theater which was playing Trainwreck, due to its feminist themes and characters, as well as its lead actor's Jewish background. Houser was said to have been a misogynist and praised the actions of Adolf Hitler on online message boards, as well has having a history of arson and domestic violence. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Lafayette_shooting) - On June 17, 2015, [Dylann Roof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof) was inspired by the “hate facts” posted on Daily Stormer and Council of Conservative Citizens to murder nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof) +- On April 13, 2014, A 73 year old neo-nazi [shot and killed three people](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Park_Jewish_Community_Center_shooting) in the overland park jewish community center, a jewish retirement community in Overland park, Kansas. The shooter fired at two males, 69-year-old Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were hit by gunfire as they pulled into the parking lot inside their car. Corporon died at the scene of a [shotgun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun) wound to the head, while Underwood died of handgun wounds at a hospital. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Park_Jewish_Community_Center_shooting) +- On August 5, 2012, a [massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting) took place at the [gurdwara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdwara) ([Sikh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism) temple) in [Oak Creek, Wisconsin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Creek,_Wisconsin), where 40-year-old Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others. Page committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding police officer. Page was a member of the [hammerskins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerskins), a white nationalist neo-nazi group. Apart from the shooter, all of the dead were members of the [Sikh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh) faith. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting) +- In May 2012, members of the US national socialist movement, and white supremacists lead by [Craig Cobb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Cobb) attempted a takeover Leith, a tiny rural town in North Dakota. He published names, photos and addresses of town members and their families, invoking the first amendment when anyone opposed him. The town lived in perpetual fear until he was arrested for terrorizing them with firearms, which after a plea deal was struck that let him off the hook. The affair is shown in the documentary [Welcome to Leith (2015)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Leith). +- On June 10th, 2009, 89-year-old [white supremacist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_supremacist) and holocaust denier [James Wenneker von Brunn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_von_Brunn) entered the [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum) in [Washington, D.C.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.) with a rifle and[] killed a security guard.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting) [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting)