Recently in Hate Crime Category

A transgender graduate student, who claims to be the victim of a recent transgender hate crime at CSU Long Beach, spoke about his experience at a campus rally yesterday. He says that an attacker shoved him into a university bathroom stall and carved the word "it" into his chest.

With such a hateful act, hundreds of people marched for tolerance after hearing Colle Carpenter's hate crime story. CBS News reports that at the victim revealed more information about the crime, which had occurred on April 15. After the incident, the attacker fled the scene and police have so far not been able to arrest anybody in connection with the incident. Anybody who has information about the crime is encouraged to call Det. Leyva at (562) 985-4101.

KTLA News reports that vandals struck St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Reseda earlier this week. Police are now investigating the incident as a hate crime. An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department first noticed the sacrilegious graffiti on Wednesday morning around 8:00 a.m. At least 10 different messages were written across the church.

The sayings "Satan Lives," "Revolution 666," and "False Messiah" are just some of the sayings that were inscribed on the walls and doors of the church. The damage is estimated to be at thousands of dollars.

A hate crime investigation is currently under way at Calabasas High School in Los Angeles County, where many in the community were shocked to hear of the religiously motivated motivated attack on a high school student.

Matthew Babajouni, 17, said that his car was vandalized on school property while he was in class. When he returned to his vehicle, there was a swastika carved into the hood of his 2009 BMW. The Jewish boy said that this is not the first time he's seen this type of hatred against him. He says that he has endured harassment weekly, in which he has endured swastikas being drawn on his car with dust and with paint in the past.

There were 9,691 reported victims of hate crimes across the U.S in 2008, a two percent increase from that of 2007. The FBI released the new hate crime data and statistics of 2008 last month in hopes of creating an ongoing national dialogue about how to stop bias-fueled crimes across the country. With so many hate crimes in this country, it puts into question whether or not our progressive society is really becoming more tolerant.

Several red headed students at A.E Wright Middle School in Calabasas were bullied, shoved, and kicked on November 20, after a "Kick a Ginger Day" event was promoted by other middle school students on Facebook.com.

Gay rights activists around the country are applauding President Obama's efforts of bringing Federal protection to the homosexual, bisexual, and transgender community. On October 28, the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was brought along as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010. The new law expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.