![]() “Across America, families must be able to freely travel our public streets without fear of being attacked because of race,” the US assistant attorney general Kristen Clarke said in a statement. Leahy said he wanted to “fight a random colored person” and that deputies “needed to control them”, the Times reported, citing an affidavit. Once in custody, police said, Leahy threatened to conduct a mass shooting. In Florida, the Pinellas county sheriff’s office officials told the Tampa Bay Times Leahy used a Nazi salute and pretended to shoot the Black man he confronted. ![]() In July, a federal grand jury indicted Gendron on more than two dozen hate and firearm counts. The federal government has stepped up prosecution of hate crime cases. In New York, antisemitic crimes were highest. Black people were the most targeted group in most cities. This summer saw a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, where Payton Gendron, who is white, shot and killed 10 people at a grocery store in the predominantly Black east end of the city.īrian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, previously told the Guardian hate crimes against Black Americans in particular surged in 2021. Hate crimes, especially against Black, Asian and Jewish Americans, climbed across the US throughout the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() The two drivers then encountered each other at a light, where Leahy got out of his car and “tried to assault” the Black man as he continued to yell racist invective, prosecutors said. ![]()
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