For the second time this month, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside of a Hindu temple in Richmond Hill was vandalized. While it suffered damage after the first attack, this time it was destroyed.
Read More"Silence is complicity and we cannot be complicit.”
Read More“I appreciate the community’s patience as we gathered needed evidence to establish a hate crime in this particular circumstance.”
Read More“As legislators we need to be doing more to prevent these acts from occurring and reoccurring. It is not enough to simply punish attackers after their crimes.”
Read More“We can have mature, nuanced conversations about countries, about viruses, about various issues without endangering the lives of our constituents.”
Read MoreTwitter and Instagram users helped search for the suspect.
Read MoreTwo assailants attacked a man in front of his wife and children in November.
Read More“Recently, additional information has come to light.”
Read More“Hate crimes targeting the Muslim community need to be taken seriously.”
Read More“These incessant, irresponsible, and atrocious naming of COVID-19 as the ‘Chinese virus’ or ‘Wuhan virus’ is endangering the lives of Asian Americans.”
Read MoreThe Manhattan man who hurled homophobic insults and fractured a 20-year-old woman’s spine after seeing her kiss a female friend on the cheek on a Queens E train pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree assault as a hate crime.
Read More“I am distraught that I have to be here. Protecting the LGBTQI community means to me an everyday job for all of us.”
Read MoreDespite support for the LGBTQIA+ community from residents and leaders, Queens has been the site of several alleged homophobic and transphobic hate crimes.
Read MoreA hammer and sickle and the phrase “Hail Hitler” were also drawn on the yard at PS 139, while school was closed for winter break.
Read More“New Yorkers stand with the Jewish community against anti-Semitism in all its forms.”
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