fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa



The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are also recommended.

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394. "Victim" confessed to staging hoax. 2020-06-24 Hermiston, Umatilla County Oregon https://www.eastoregonian.com/news/local/county-com... County commission candidate confesses to writing racist letter / A racist letter that Umatilla County commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez claimed was left anonymously in his mailbox was written by Lopez himself, according to Lopez and Hermiston Police Chief Jason / 2020-07-06
393. "Several witnesses identified Lopez, who had frequented the park, as the shooter," The Courier Journ... 2020-06-27 Louisville KY http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61563 'White Supremacist Mass Shooter' At Jefferson Square Park Turns Out to Be Hispanic Homeless Man Steven Lopez / Twitter exploded with the claim that a 'white supremacist' was shooting Black Lives Matter protestors in a park in Louisville. For example, the actor Daniel Newman, who has nearly 1 million followers
392. Police say the six placards attached to nooses and the names of black citizens killed by the police ... 2020-06-22 Milwaukee WI https://fox6now.com/2020/06/22/mcso-photos-of-peopl... MCSO: Photos of people killed in encounters with law enforcement found hanging from nooses in Riverside Park / The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after six laminated cards were found attached to a tree with nooses in Riverside Park Saturday, June 20. MCSO officials said in a news release
391. NASCAR "noose" turns out to be a garage-door pull-rope 2020-06-21 Talladega AL https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/06/22/is-... UPDATE: Proved to a Certainty – Is Bubba Wallace “Rope Noose” a Hoax or Misunderstanding? All Talladega Garage Doors Have Nooses – NASCAR Video Evidence… / Noose reported in black NASCAR driver's automotive garage stall proved to be nothing more than a rope loop for pulling down the overhead garage door. Same
390. The suspect is black, and has admitted to graffiti against black people 2020-01-01 Wicomico MD https://www.thecollegefix.com/confirmed-vandal-behi... CONFIRMED: Vandal behind racist graffiti at Salisbury University … is black / Salisbury University experienced massive racial unrest after a series of racist graffiti was discovered on campus over the course of the 2019-20 school year. The public, Maryland-based university ca / 2020-06-11
389. The memorial is to 49 gay people murdered by an Islamic extremist in 2016. It's possible that a whit... 2020-05-10 Orlando FL https://www.newsweek.com/memorial-pulse-nightclub-s... Memorial for Pulse nightclub shooting defaced by white supremacists / A mural paying tribute to the victims of the 2016 mass shooting at Orlando, Florida's Pulse nightclub has been vandalized by white supremacists - according to Newsweek. A sticker from 'Patriot Front' w / 2020-05-15
388. The Georgia police allege that, following the shooting of black man Ahmaud Arberry, and protests to ... 2020-05-09 Midway GA https://archive.is/gTSMa GBI Makes Arrest for Terroristic Threats Related to the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Investigation / This is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation announcement. It says Rashawn Smith has been arrrested and charged with making terroristic threats. It alleges that, following the shooting of black man Ahmaud / 2020-05-10
387. Michigan State University has told students not to use the term 'Chinese' to describe coronavirus, b... 2020-04-02 Lansing MI https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14675 MSU tells students the 'correct term' for 'Chinese Virus' / In an email sent by Michigan State University on April 2, eight recommendations were given to handle COVID-19. Staff, faculty, and students were encouraged to sign MSU’s “Hate Has No Home Here” pledge. / 2020-04-07
386. A student who reported herself as a victim of a hate crime has been charged with faking it. She alle... 2019-11-01 La Verne CA https://www.thecollegefix.com/college-student-charg... College student charged with faking hate crime against herself / California’s La Verne Police Department said it determined that last year’s “series of threats” against a University of La Verne student group and its leader Anayeli Dominguez-Pena were actually sent b / 2020-03-11
385. From her picture, she appears not to be white. So it's likely, if she's guilty of carving the words ... 2020-03-01 Johnson City TN https://wcyb.com/news/local/jcpd-woman-arrested-for... JCPD: Woman arrested for carving "white pride" into sidewalk at JC business / A black woman has been charged with vandalism under $1,000 after authorities say she used a rock to carve "white pride" into the sidewalk at a Johnson City business. / 2020-03-03
384. Online report 2020-02-19 Southaven Mississippi https://wreg.com/news/southaven-man-who-reported-ra... Southaven man who reported racist graffiti on vehicles charged with insurance fraud / A black Mississippi man was charged with insurance fraud after he reported racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of his vehicles. / 2020-02-28
383. Newly release video and 911 audio show employees who assaulted Popeye bodyslam victim were lying abo... 2019-11-11 Nashville Tennessee https://fox17.com/news/local/new-surveillance-video... New surveillance video released from Popeyes body slam incident in Columbia / Newly release video and 911 audio show employees who assaulted Popeye bodyslam victim were lying about every single aspect of the incident. / 2020-01-30
382. "Victim" likely sprayed his own car as part of an insurance fraud. 2020-02-02 Southaven MI https://wreg.com/news/southaven-man-who-reported-ra... Southaven man who reported racist graffiti on vehicles charged with insurance fraud / A Mississippi man was charged with insurance fraud after he reported racist graffiti had been spray-painted on two of his vehicles. / 2020-02-28
381. First reported headline was "Philadelphia Police Investigating After Mural Depicting Cecil B. Moore ... 2020-02-15 Philadelphia PA https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/02/26/philad... Philadelphia Police Release Images Of Suspect Wanted For Spray-Painting Racial Slurs On Cecil B. Moore Mural / Philadelphia police released images of a suspect wanted for spray-painting racial slurs on the mural of a black historical figure and 2 other locations. Video shows a young black male doing the graffi
380. Police uncovered video evidence that claims of a 15 year old student being called N-word and hateful... 2020-02-03 Waukesha Wisconsin https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/waukesha... Go Home N-Word - Student Says Athletes beat him in hateful attack; Police say that's not true / A Waukesha student involved in a parking lot brawl says it was racially motivated. Police say that's not true. A fight at a Waukesha shopping center resulted in the arrest of six Waukesha high schoo / 2020-02-04
379. Gun control activist deleted the tweet, and it seems unlikely that a real pro-gun advocate would bre... 2020-01-20 Baltimore MD https://yournews.com/2020/01/28/1423434/anti-gun-do... Anti-gun doctor accused of sending himself death threat / A gun control activist deleted a tweet claiming he was the victim of a threat after various Twitterers claimed to see inconsistencies in his story / 2020-01-28
378. A cop falsely accused McDonald’s workers of writing “f****** pig” on the officer’s coffee cup after... 2019-12-30 Herington KS https://www.yahoo.com/news/kansas-police-pig-insult... Cop Resigns After Writing 'Pig' Insult On Coffee Cup And Blaming McDonald's Workers / A police officer accused McDonald’s workers of writing “f****** pig” on the officer’s cup. Then he resigned and his boss said it was a hoax, and the pig did it himself. / 2020-01-02
377. Made-up antisemitic attack: Sean Samit reported he was attacked and stabbed in the abdomen by an unk... 2019-12-20 West Bloomfield Township MI https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oak... He told police he was stabbed for being Jewish. Then his Apple Watch caught him in a lie. / He told police he was stabbed for being Jewish. Then his Apple Watch caught him in a lie. / 2020-01-02
376. Andy Ngo cites empirical data from a human rights organisation showing that the murder of transexual... 2019-11-20 Portland Oregon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Y0frT9sP0 Andy Ngo suspended from Twitter for correcting Chelsea Clinton's claims about hate crimes / "On 27 Nov. 2019, I was interviewed on OANN about being suspended from Twitter after tweeting that there is no epidemic of trans people being killed in the U.S. Twitter deemed the tweet "hateful conduc / 2019-11-27
375. Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Somali-born Finnish politician, apologised for faking a hate crime, when... 2019-11-13 Helsinki Finland https://nationalfile.com/finnish-politician-apologi... Finnish Politician Apologises for Fake Hate Crime / Abdirahim “Husu” Hussein, a Somali-born Finnish politician, apologised for faking a hate crime, when he said he had to throw someone out of a taxi for racial abuse. / 2019-11-14
374. Canadian hockey coach claimed to be victim of racial discrimination in schools where he taught, but ... 2019-10-14 Toronto ON https://www.thepostmillennial.com/he-never-taught-h... “He never taught here”: ice rink disputes claim of racism by hockey coach / A Muslim hockey coach’s story about being the victim of a parent’s hateful text message is falling apart upon scrutiny and the revelation he made a similar allegation in 2017. / 2019-10-18
373. Britain hasn't become twice as bigoted in five years. Like all Western countries, its tolerance of m... 2019-10-15 London UK http://archive.is/NM17N Hate crimes double in five years in England and Wales / The number of hate crimes reported to police has more than doubled since 2013, according to government figures, which also showed a large increase last year in offences against people based on sexual o / 2019-10-15
372. A 12-year-old black girl claimed racist white boys had cut off her dreadlocks. Then she admitted she... 2019-10-03 Springfield VA https://nypost.com/2019/10/03/why-we-keep-falling-f... Why we keep falling for hate-crime hoaxes / Starting with this recent Virginia case, Andy Ngo asks why Americans are so credulous of these stories. "Left-wing activists and the mainstream media refuse to learn lessons about hate-crime hoaxes." / 2019-10-03
371. Victim family admitted that it was hoax. 2019-09-27 fairfax VA https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virg... Virginia sixth-grader now says she falsely accused classmates of cutting her hair / Last week, The 12-year-old, who is African American, said three white male students held her down in a school playground a week ago during recess, covered her mouth, called her insulting names and used / 2019-09-30
370. The information for this story comes from the Anti-Defamation League. It tries to give the impressio... 2019-09-26 New York NY https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ok-ha... 'OK' hand gesture, 'bowl cut' added to hate symbols database / A New York organization has a database of extremist symbols, and it has added the 'OK' hand gesture to it. / 2019-09-26
369. Edwan Coughman is charged with wrecking his own restaurants and writing racist and pro-Trump slogans... 2019-09-14 Tampa FL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Su_FaLx_NA "Jussie Smollett 2.0" CAUGHT Red Handed, Sprayed "MAGA" And Slur On Wall, ARRESTED And CHARGED / Ex-Tampa Bay NFL player charged with fake hate crime - trashing two restaurants he owns and spraying the N-word and "MAGA" on the walls / 2019-09-15
368. Trans "woman" faking a hate crime. 2019-05-10 Urbana–Champaign Illinois https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSK3K0Kdix4 Hate Crime Hoaxes / Hate crime hoaxes / 2019-05-28
367. Similar handwriting on various hateful letters sent to an MP - it is also possible that some of his ... 2019-07-11 London UK https://twitter.com/IonathanRex/status/115013839618... 13 Questions for David Lammy -- a Twitter thread / UK MP David Lammy is being asked questions about the claim that he may have sent fake hate mail to himself. / 2019-07-13
366. A 40% increase in religious hatred in one year would be impossible in a modern Western country. 2019-08-20 London UK https://archive.fo/jpqG3 How mainstream media fuels the UK's Islamophobia crisis / There has been a 40% increase in religious hatred in the UK, most of it directed toward Muslims. / 2019-08-20
365. How the SPLC encouraged violence against a conservative Christian organization 2019-08-17 Montgomery AL https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/17/s... The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate-based scam that nearly caused me to be murdered / The Southern Poverty Law Center describes hate groups as groups whose statements cause individuals to use violence in defense of their political views. Using this criterion, the Family Research Council / 2019-08-17

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