Ottawa police are investigating what they’re calling hate-motivated mischief at a church in the city’s Vanier neighbourhood Sunday morning. Police are investigating after several slogans and profanities were written on the Vanier church. (Submitted to CBC)Ottawa police are investigating what they’re calling hate-motivated mischief at a church in the city’s Vanier neighbourhood Sunday morning.   Photos sent to CBC News show…Continue Reading

U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Tuesday to make lynching a federal hate crime — more than 100 years after such legislation was first proposed.A plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery in Aslip, Illinois. The 14-year-old from Chicago was visiting relatives in Mississippi in August 1955…Continue Reading

Crime Branch not responding in Mavunkal probe: ED claims in Kerala HC

Kochi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday claimed in the Delhi High Court that the Crime Branch has not responded to its requests for information and certain documents in relation to the probe against self-styled antiques dealer Monson Mavunkal, an allegation which the latter denied. The Director General of Prosecution (DGP), appearing for the state…Continue Reading

FBI to take over hate crime probe at Santa Fe’s India Palace

The Albuquerque Division of the FBI will assume the lead role in the India Palace vandalism investigation, it announced Friday.The downtown restaurant was forced to renovate after its walls were spray-painted with racial slurs, windows were shattered and interior was heavily damaged during an attack by vandals in June 2020. Over a year after what investigating…Continue Reading