ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The FBI is engaged in a nationwide effort to build public awareness of hate crimes and to encourage reporting to law enforcement. This week, the FBI Anchorage Field Office launched a hate crime reporting campaign as part of that effort, which includes various digital, print, and radio advertisements across the state, and […]
A motorist who allegedly plowed his vehicle into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year was charged Wednesday with numerous federal hate crimes. James Fields of Maumee, Ohio, was charged by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia with one count of a hate crime […]
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called on civilians to continue to report hate crimes and incidents of harassment and intimidation Friday. “We need you to continue to report these incidents to local law enforcement, as well as the Justice Department, so that our career investigators and prosecutors can take action to defend your rights,” she […]