Adding to hate crimes.

us_atrocities.md

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 - On Feb 12, 2017, Jerimy Mathis, a white North Carolina state trooper shot 31-year-old [Willard Scott](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/police-shooting-north-carolina-willard-scott-autopsy) twice in the back, killing him, as he was running away from the trooper after a traffic stop. Mathis was placed on paid leave, and no charges have been filed.<sup>[1](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/police-shooting-north-carolina-willard-scott-autopsy)</sup>
 - On July 18th, 2016, Police shot [Alfred Kinsey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey), a mental health therapist who was unarmed, while he was helping an autistic patient in a park. Kinsey was lying on the ground with his hands in the air and trying to negotiate between officers and his patient when he was shot. Both Kinsey and his patient were unarmed. Following the shooting, Kinsey stated he was handcuffed and left bleeding on the ground for 20 minutes with police giving him no medical aid. Authorities stated that they were investigating the incident, which received significant media attention following the appearance of cellphone video footage. The officer who shot Kinsey was arrested in 2017 and charged with attempted manslaughter and negligence. However, he remains employed and has not been fired. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey),[2](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cops-shoot-unarmed-caregiver-charles-kinsey-his-hands-while-he-n614106)</sup>
 - On July 6th, 2016, [Philando Castile was shot and killed by Jeronimo Yanez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile), a [St. Anthony, Minnesota](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anthony,_Minnesota) police officer. Castile's girlfriend live-streamed the murder, showing Yanez pointing the gun at both her and her daughter. After Yanez was acquitted of all charges on June 16, 2017 by a jury, a video of the murder was leaked, showing Philando openly disclosing that he had a firearm on him, only to then be shot point-blank 5 times. According to author and former FBI agent Larry Brubaker, who has written two books on officer-involved shootings, "this is the first time an officer has been charged for a fatal shooting in Minnesota in more than 200 cases that spanned over three decades". <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Philando_Castile)</sup>
+- On November 5th, 2015, [Two police officers shot and killed 24-year old Jamar Clark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark). The cops were placed on paid leave. Protests over the shooting lead to another act of terrorism where 4 white men shot 5 Black lives matter protestors. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark)</sup>
 - In May, 2010, [Kalief Browder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder), a 16 year old black teen, was arrested while walking home in the Bronx, on suspicion of robbery. He was held for 3 years on [Riker Island](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikers_Island), a New York jail notorious for its horrible treatment of inmates, without trial or conviction, refusing to accept the state's plea deal and staunchly defending his innocence, until the case was finally dismissed. Kalief was held for 2 of his 3 years in solitary confinement, and his deteriorating mental health lead him to attempt suicide multiple times. After his release, Kalief Browder committed suicide by hanging himself, in June, 2015. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder), [2](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/18/kalief-browder-hanged-himself-after-jail-destroyed-him-then-a-broken-heart-killed-his-mother/)</sup>
 - On May 16, 2010, Police officer Joseph Weekley [killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones with a headshot](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/31/detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones-police-officer-cleared), a 7 year old black girl, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. On January 28, 2015, a prosecutor cleared Weekley of the last remaining charge against him, ensuring there would not be a third trial.<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Aiyana_Jones), [2](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/31/detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones-police-officer-cleared)</sup>
 - On April 12, 2015, [Freddie Carlos Gray, Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray), a 25-year-old [Black man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_American), was [arrested](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested) by the [Baltimore Police Department](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Police_Department) for possessing what the police alleged was an illegal [switchblade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchblade) under Baltimore law. While being transported in a [police van](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_van), several cops held him down, putting pressure on his spinal cord, after which he fell into a [coma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma) and died on April 19, 2015. This sparked a series of [protests in Baltimore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baltimore_protests); riot police responded violently, and called in the national guard to aid against the "thugs", as they were labeled by [Obama in a press conference](https://youtu.be/ml1LzRenH_Q). After the protests were put down, the police officers were given separate trials, and all of them were found innocent. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Freddie_Gray)</sup>

us_hate_crimes.md

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 - Try to convey a sense of moral outrage. 
 - This is a living document, it will be updated as new hate crimes pour in.
+- These are acts **not committed by figures of authority** directly, those should be included the [List of US atrocities](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md). 
 - Feel free to make pull requests(changes), or fork it if you'd like to make your own versions. 
 - Name the specific source and recipient for the crime, and provide a source for the claim.
 - Try to do chronologically from recent to past; it should seem like a running log.
 
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+## White supremacy
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+- 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. <sup>[1](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306)
+- 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. <sup>[1](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485)</sup>
+- On May 29th, 2017, Jimmy Kramer, a 20 year old Native American, [was run over during his birthday party](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/) in Washington state by a man and woman in a large pickup truck who first circled the party yelling racial slurs and taunts at the group from inside the truck. Kramer died and his friend was hospitalized. <sup>[1](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/)</sup>
+- On May 28th, 2017, White supremacist [Jeremy Joseph Christian stabbed and killed two men](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/) who defended a 16-year-old and her Muslim friend on a train in Portland OR. As he was brought into court, Christian yelled, ""Get out if you don't like free speech," and, "You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism. You hear me? Die." 16 year old Destinee Mangum told reporters, "He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn't be here, to get out of his country," Mangum told KPTV. "He was just telling us that we basically weren't anything and that we should just kill ourselves." Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, of Portland, and Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley, died defending them the two high-schoolers.<sup>[1](http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/us/portland-train-teenager-stabbing-arraignment/)</sup>
+- On May 21st, 2017, Sean Christopher Urbanski, a University of Maryland student and member of online alt-right facebook groups, [randomly stabbed to death Richard Collins III](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-umd-stabbing-arrest-20170521-story.html) in College Park, MD, while he was waiting for an uber. <sup>[1](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-umd-stabbing-arrest-20170521-story.html)</sup>
+- On March 20, 2017, Timothy Caughman, a black 66-year-old man, was collecting cans for recycling in Manhattan, New York City when James Harris Jackson, a white 28-year-old, allegedly approached him and stabbed him [multiple times with a sword, killing him](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Timothy_Caughman). Jackson subsequently turned himself in to police custody  and confirmed that he traveled from Maryland to New York with the intention of killing black men in order to prevent white women from having interracial relationships with them.<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Timothy_Caughman)</sup>
+- On Feb 22, 2017, white US navy veteran Adam Purington, [shot and killed 1 Indian man and wounded another](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Olathe,_Kansas_shooting), whom he had mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas. He yelled, "get out of my country" and "[terrorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist)" before firing. A third man, Ian Grillot, was wounded after he came to the two men's aid. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Olathe,_Kansas_shooting)</sup>
+- On Jan 29th, 2017, White supremacist Alexandre Bissonette [shot and killed 6 people and wounded 19 others](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting) at a Mosque in Quebec city, Canada. He was charged with 6 counts of first-degree murder, and not domestic terrorism. People who knew him said he had expressed support for [Marine Le Pen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Le_Pen) and [Donald Trump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump),[[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-troll-31)[[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-lui-m.C3.AAme-30)[[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#cite_note-34) and had [far-right](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics), [white nationalist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalism), and anti-Muslim views. The manager of a refugee-support Facebook page said Bissonnette frequently denigrated refugees and feminists online.<sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting)</sup>
+- On Jan 20th, 2017, Elizabeth Hokoana, shot a protester and IWW member at a Milo Yiannopolous speech at the University of Washington, in Seattle WA. This occurred after the protester confronted her husband about pepper spraying the crowds. Marc Hokoana sent a text saying, "I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m going to the milo event and if the snowflakes get out off hand I’m going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls."
+- 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. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jamar_Clark#Protest_reaction)</sup>
+- 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. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Lafayette_shooting)</sup>
+- 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. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof)</sup>
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 ## Sources / Starting points
 
-- [x] Southern povery law center
+- [ ] Southern povery law center