A masked swordsman who killed a teaching assistant and a boy and wounded two others, all with immigrant backgrounds, was driven by racist motives, Swedish police said on Friday, fuelling concerns that refugee numbers were polarizing public opinion in the country.
A Manhattan grand jury is investigating the beating death of 62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt, who was beaten to death by Leshawn Martin, a black man in what is classified as a possible hate crime
Matthew Darby, a white Mississippi teenager, faces 27 years in prison after running over and killing a man who was walking along a rural highway. The case, according to the victim's family, is being called a hate crime, CNN reported.Darby, who is 18, pleaded guilty earlier this week to manslaughter in the July 2012 death of 61-year-old Johnny Lee Butts. Companions put Darby at the wheel of the white Chevrolet that hit Butts from behind on a highway in Panola County, about 150 miles north of Jackson. Butts was a black ma