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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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
364. Erica Thomas, a Georgia politician, said that a white man told her to 'go back where you came from'.... 2019-07-19 Atlanta GA https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/24/how-a-supe... How a supermarket spat became a ‘hate crime’ / The media mostly assumed that Erica Thomas was a victim of 'hate' stirred up by president Trump. / 2019-07-24
363. An article about the fake hate crime epidemic in the UK, blamed on Brexit 2016-08-27 Harlow UK https://quillette.com/2019/07/18/is-surging-hate-cr... Is Surging Hate Crime in the UK Overcooked? / Ben Cobley, author of "The Tribe: the Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity", shows how the England & Wales police define a hate crime - "For recording purposes, the perception of the victim, or any / 2019-07-18
362. Wilfred Reilly's book exposes numerous hate hoaxes - this video describes some of them 2019-05-28 Chicago IL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSK3K0Kdix4 Hate Crime Hoaxes / Hate crime hoaxes / 2019-05-28
361. Wilfrid Reilly, author of 'Hate Crime Hoax', explains why a hate-crime epidemic never was. 2019-05-09 Seattle WA https://quillette.com/2019/07/07/the-hate-crime-epi... The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was: A Seattle Case Study / The Seattle Times recently reported that an epidemic of hate crimes is taking place in the Emerald City. According to the newspaper, more than 500 bias incidents were reported to Seattle police in 2018 / 2019-07-07
360. An Ohio jury has ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery which said it was libeled an... 2016-11-01 Oberlin OH https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/us/oberlin-college-b... Ohio bakery awarded $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College over alleged racial profiling / Oberlin College is a major source of hate hoaxes. Go to http://fakehatecrimes.org/search and enter 'Oberlin'. The culture which encourages these fake crimes is illustrated by this article. Three black / 20
359. A list of fake hate crimes from Andy Ngo in Portland - reasons why he thinks they are fakes are give... 2019-03-31 Portland Oregon https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/11295606890166... Andy Ngo on Twitter / Various suspected and confirmed hate hoaxes / 2019-04-18
358. The man who set the fire, 47-year-old Andrew McClinton, is African-American and a member of the chur... 2016-11-02 Jackson MS https://www.dailywire.com/news/45335/mississippi-ma... Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Hoax SPLC Used To Slam Trump / Eventually, the SPLC had to append an Editor’s Note to its story, which reads in big bold letters: “In December 2016, a suspect, a member of the church, was arrested in connection with the crime, and a / 2019-03-30
357. A member of an African American church in Mississippi admitted setting the church on fire but never ... 2016-11-01 Jackson MS https://apnews.com/57e8b52fa44743a6b37f2c65fa97d7a4... DA: Man never admitted painting ‘Vote Trump’ in church arson / Andrew McClinton gave investigators varying accounts when he admitted setting the fire at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville. / 2019-05-02
356. Police interviewed multiple people who witnessed the incident and said the straphanger was the aggre... 2019-05-26 New York NY https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/subway-rider-lied-abo... Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email Copy METRO Subway rider lied about anti-gay attack, was actually aggressor: cops / A Manhattan straphanger who claimed to have been attacked by two men yelling gay slurs was actually the one doing the attacking, according to police. / 2019-05-27
355. No identified target of the "hate." 2019-04-05 San Dimas CA https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-di... Three teenagers in custody on suspicion of burning swastikas into yard and streets in San Gabriel Valley / Three teenage boys were in custody Monday after authorities determined they were to blame for the recent barrage of crudely drawn swastikas burned into a lawn and onto a few streets in the San Gabriel /
354. Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland - In the past, as documented on this site... 2019-02-01 Portland Oregon https://archive.is/a9hOb Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland / Last month, Sophia Gabrielle Stanford was at the center of a fundraising campaign. The GoFundMe page described the trans activist as a victim of a “brutal and aggressively blatant hate crime” in which / 2019-03-30
353. Mayor claims pollen on car was substance sprayed by vandals. 2019-03-01 Lamar SC https://www.newsweek.com/darnell-byrd-mcpherson-may... S.C. MAYOR SAYS ‘YELLOW STICKY SUBSTANCE’ ON HER CAR WAS SPRAYED BY VANDALS, POLICE SAY IT’S JUST POLLEN / The mayor of a South Carolina town believed she was the target of a hate crime after cars belonging to her and her husband were dusted with a mysterious, “yellow, sticky substance.” “We found it to /
351. The police say LGBT activist Nikki Joly burned down his own house because he was annoyed there was n... 2017-08-01 Jackson MI https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/25/lgbt-activist-burned... LGBT activist ‘burned down his own home because he was annoyed there was no prejudice to campaign against’ / LGBT activist Nikki Joly's version of how he had spent the day meant there was only a five minute window for any arsonist to break into his home, douse it with fuel and set it ablaze. However, Joly
350. 50 fake hate crimes at colleges covered by The College Fix in the last seven years 2019-02-18 New York NY https://www.thecollegefix.com/here-are-50-campus-ha... Here are 50 campus hate-crime hoaxes The College Fix has covered since 2012 / 50 hate hoaxes at colleges covered by The College Fix in the last seven years / 2019-02-18
349. Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked by Trump Supporters in Downtown Chicago. 2019-01-29 Chicago IL https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/jussie-smolletts-neig... Jussie Smollett’s neighbors cast doubt on his attack story / Meanwhile, Chicago police said Sunday that Smollett has yet to turn over data from his cellphone to verify that he was on the phone with his music manager, Brandon Moore, when he was allegedly attacked / 2019-02-11
348. Jussie Smollet was suppose to have been attacked by Trump supporters wearing a MAGA hat. None of his... 2019-01-29 Chicago Illinois https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/jussie-smolletts-neig... Jussie Smollett’s neighbors cast doubt on his attack story / Meanwhile, Chicago police said Sunday that Smollett has yet to turn over data from his cellphone to verify that he was on the phone with his music manager, Brandon Moore, when he was allegedly attacked / 2019-02-11
347. Not exactly a fake hate crime, but an outburst of hate against a group of white schoolchildren based... 2019-01-20 Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiK_Tdh9Vg Native Activists Lied, Media Covered For Them in MAGA Incident / SJW reporters called for violence against the school students, who were peacefully opposing a group of black extremists calling them "faggots", etc.. The fake story went viral, and one of the students / 2019-01-21
346. A seven-year-old black girl was shot dead in Houston. The media claimed it was a hate crime after a ... 2018-12-30 Houston TX https://infowars.com/white-supremacist-shooting-of-... ‘WHITE SUPREMACIST’ SHOOTING OF 7-YEAR-OLD BLACK GIRL; GUNMAN TURNS OUT TO BE BLACK / A seven-year-old black girl was shot dead in Houston. The media claimed it was a hate crime after a witness saw a white man running away. It turns out he was running away from the gunshots. Two suspect / 2019-01-06
345. In mid-November, a Drake University student told school officials she had received four racist notes... 2018-11-13 Des Moines Iowa https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-... Drake University officials: Four of the five racist notes found on campus were hoaxes / 2018-11-30
344. Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIM... 2018-11-14 Towson Maryland https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6450101/Bl... Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students in two incidents that terrorized the campus / Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students
343. Black guy spray paints racist stuff and swastikas. Gets arrested because he was caught on camera. 2018-11-27 Antioch CA https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/27/man-suspecte... Man suspected of vandalizing Antioch with swastikas, other symbols, arrested following tips / Man suspected of vandalizing Antioch with swastikas, other symbols, arrested following tips Three city vehicles, a door at City Hall and a business were all spray-painted with racial slurs, vulgar wor / 2018-11-27

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