Results tagged “hatecrime”

Aw, this is sad. Kids play here! This just isn't cool. Also, why did they have to go and mix in something so splendid as the human penis with something so vile as Nazi signage? It devalues the shlong.

Wha?

Richmond police admit ignoring the racially-motivated beating of Brandon Manning, whose crime report sat unnoticed on the desk of a sergeant who was "absent for several days." Fortunately, though, police finally looked at the report (after getting calls from Manning's family asking about the investigation) and arrested "seven white suspects" this past Saturday. Steven Kinney, Andrew Word, Victor Faria and Richard Lange, who range in age from 18 to 20, were charged with assault, battery and hate crimes.

A little over a week ago, Jan. 24, seven male suspects beat a UPS employee (who is black) in a park in the 3500 block of Morningside Drive in the city of Richmond. And it looks like the victim might have been baited. According to reports, the UPS driver walked to a nearby gas station after leaving work, wherein he met a group of men who offered him a ride home. After drinking a few round, they stopped at a park and the UPS worker used a restroom, "where he was struck in the back of the head by one of the suspects." The other men joined in the attack, yelling "racial epithets and fracturing the victim's face bones." Vile. All seven unidentified suspects are in custody. This comes on the heels of a Richmond lesbian who was brutally gang raped and beaten after a few Richmond pigs noticed the rainbow flag sticker on her car bumper.

White San Jose resident Scott Pontzious was arrested and charged with a hate crime yesterday. The 28-year-old, English-only zealot was pinched after allegedly attacking another man because he was speaking Spanish on his cell phone. Pontzious, according to reports, told the victim that he needed to speak English, then assaulted him yesterday afternoon at Saratoga and Latimer Avenues. He is currently staying at the Santa Clara County jail. The Spanish speaking man is expected to live.

Humberto Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21 (at right), Darrell Hodges, 16, and an unidentified 15-year-old piece of prison meat all pleaded 'not guilty' in the vicious gang rape of a Richmond lesbian. The four are accused of kidnapping to commit a sex crime and a series of forcible rape, forcible sodomy and forcible oral copulation charges while acting in concert, according to reports. The 45-minute assault started when the victim got out of her car, which was adorned with a rainbow flag sticker. She was beaten, raped, taken to a second location, and left naked by the train tracks. Three of the suspects are scheduled to go back to court on March 5.

The alleged human beings who assaulted, kidnapped, and raped a random Richmond lesbian were arraigned in Contra Costa Superior Court this week. Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, appeared in court without entering pleas. A 16-year-old suspect from Hercules was arraigned on Monday and will rightfully be tried as an adult; however, the fourth assumed assailant, a 15-year-old boy from Richmond, will, sadly, be tried as a minor.

Oh oh. Here we go again. An angry, misguided soul defaced another symbol of religion, this time the Castro's Most Holy Redeemer Church Catholic at 100 Diamond Street The church was spray-painted with swastikas over the weekend. And once again, Newsom is none too thrilled about it, releasing this statement: "We strongly condemn the vandalism of the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. It was a cowardly and criminal act. San Francisco is a city that embraces people of all faiths. To intimidate a community and threaten a place of worship with intolerance is contrary to everything the City of St. Francis represents."

Four arrests were made this week after the brutal gang rape of a 28-year-old Richmond lesbian. Josue Gonzalez, 21, the pig at right, was arrested yesterday on a warrant for gang rape, kidnapping for a sex crime, and carjacking. Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, and two other teens (the 15- and 16-year-old creeps who went by "Paco" and "Blue) were arrested on Wednesday night for their involvement in last week's vicious hate crime.

For the second time in two months, the San Francisco Holocaust Memorial in Lincoln Park was vandalized. With damages anywhere between $5,000 and $6,000, swastikas were marked on the bronze sculpture with pen. Most of the signage was removed, but a "specialized sculpture conservator will be brought in to fully restore the memorial."

Two churches in San Jose -- Trinity Presbyterian Church and Indonesian Christian Church, each located at 3151 Union Avenue -- were defaced by confusing graffiti this week. Spray-painted swastikas and a few Star of Davids marked both churches. We're not sure what the intended message at either church was, but... your guess is as good as ours. But! If you have any info this crime, please call the San Jose Police Department's assault unit at 408-277-4161. (CBS 5)

While not nearly as exciting as receiving top honors as the best city for tourists to walk slow on city sidewalks, or best city in which singles can hump, on Monday the FBI just awarded SF as the city with the largest reported number of hate crimes in 2006. According to Bay City News (via SF Crime): With a population of approximately 746,000, had a total of 94 reported hate crime incidents in 2006,...

Whether this is a hate crime or simply a theft, we are flabbergasted that this story has barely made the news. The valuable bronze plaque commemorating the Armenian Genocide that occurred in the early 20th century was discovered missing on Sunday the 23rd, during an event to recognize Armenian Independence Day.

-- Good God, Genesis (alas, the band) is back. [BeyondChron]

Currently on sabbatical at the psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jailhouse for trying to beat the holy hell out of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel -- and also hopped up on meds to soothe his lack of mental clarity , which supposedly triggered the violent incident -- the apologetic 23-year-old Eric Hunt will go to trial on September 4. Staring down the barrel of six felony charges -- i.e., attempted battery, stalking, kidnapping,...

A man was stabbed at 11th and Folsom at around 1:30 Monday morning. The victim is alive but suffered life-threatening wounds.

Here's todays recap of the todays news

-More officers are sent to the Ocean View neighborhood after two men were shot within an hour of each other last night.

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Matt Smith tries to solve a murder from 2003. The Apologist on the new mall. Paper City folds. Cover article: discrimination against mothers in the workplace. The Brutal Sound Effects Festival -- sounds intriguing, doesn't it? Meredith Brody goes to Front Porch with Hiya Swanhuyser. Everyone seems to like Hiya at the Weekly! SFist Ced has nothing bad to say about the review, but is now taking bets on when Meredith will review "Out the Door" in the Westfield Mall. Frances Reade on an experimental feminist noise group. And a tribute to Dirk Dirksen, a stalwart of the local punk scene.

Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there.

We are obsessively following the story about the father and stepmother who left the father's two sons alone in their San Ramon house with a bunch of frozen dinners so they could go to Vegas for a weeklong vacation!! The parents were willing to fork out the money for a dogsitter but not anyone for the kids! The younger boy was autistic and was heard shrieking for help from the garage over the weekend! The cops had to gain entry into the house through a second-story sliding door because the boys were told not to open the door for the week! The parents had done this at least once before! The maternal grandparent called the cops and now wants custody! The stepmother's defense is that she loves kids because she gives them free toothbrushes at her dental practice!!! Whew! What does the Chron's Two Cents think about the whole thing? The police in Santa Cruz get a call during last week's wild weather -- a dead body floating by the wharf, face down. Grim. They race out, with lifeguards, rescue boats, and a Coast Guard helicopter. It was a log. And the police are still investigating an anti-Semitic hate crime that happened back in October in front of a Marina pizza parlor. Two roommates, who had recently graduated from Stanford, were attacked outside Pizza Pino by a group of males shouting anti-Jewish slurs. One attacker has been caught but they're looking for two others. The Jewish ADL is offering a $5000 reward for information.

Your SF weekend assaults roundup: A shooting at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Mission and 18th, followed 45 minutes later by a stabbing at Mission and 17th; a shooting in Visitacion Valley Saturday night/Sunday morning; a shooting at Broadway and Columbus outside Vietnam Restaurant; and a shooting outside 330 Ritch. Hey, if you hate alternative music of the late 80s that much, just say so! Good Samaritans at the North Berkeley BART stop -- people waiting on the platform Sunday interceded to stop an attempted robbery of a woman waiting for a Richmond-bound train. Four people were injured (one seriously), but they caught the would-be robber. The BART stop was then closed for three hours as the police came by for interviews, a weapons search, and to clean up the station. BART says maybe September 11 is not the best day to try anything funny on a transit system. And yesterday, an Alameda County jury returned two second-degree murder convictions in the Gwen Araujo case, and hung again on the third defendant. The jury rejected first-degree or the hate crime enhancements to the penalties.

So sad. The San Leandro police department is on the hunt for one Irving "Gotti" Ramirez of Newark who is suspected of killing a SLPD officer. The officer was responding to a complaint about noisy loiterers when Ramirez and an accomplice allegedly drove up in a Thunderbird and shot him in the head. The officer, a three year veteran, leaves behind a wife and child. The car has been found, but the search for Ramirez continues.

A passenger was stabbed yesterday afternoon at the MacArthur BART station -- the reports are sketchy, but it sounds like a teenage girl got in an argument with another woman on a Fremont-bound train. They both got off at MacArthur, and the girl attempted to stab the woman in the stomach, missed, and got the woman in the shoulder instead. The girl fled, with the woman chasing after her, but got out of the station before anyone could catch her. We heard on KRON that the victim was transgendered and the girl may have committed a hate crime, but no one else seems to have confirmed that yet. A woman in Menlo Park was at home when she suddenly heard a window break and noises from her upstairs bedroom! Burglars! She called 911 and the cops hustled on over. They got her out. They surrounded the house. They cautiously went upstairs ..... and found a terrified red-tailed hawk that had crashed through the window and deposited its half-eaten meal (a baby crow) on the woman's bed. The bird was taken in by the Humane Society, which says it's doing fine and should be released back into the wild soon. "I never thought my windows were clean enough for this to happen," mused the homeowner. And former A's and Giants pitcher Vida Blue has been summoned to San Mateo County Court next Monday to explain why he hasn't done the community service he was sentenced to after his DUI arrest last year on 101. Blue was recently arrested on another DUI in Scottsdale, Arizona in March.

Everyone's favorite attorney crime fighter, Kimberly Guilfoyle! Angry parolees in Oakland staged a protest at Oakland's City Hall on Wednesday, claiming Mayor Jerry Brown was unfairly blaming them for crime and failing to support them in finding jobs. When they got to City Hall, though, imagine their surprise when it turned out the City had organized a job fair for them! Quick thinking, Mayor Jerry! In kind of a Sore-Loserman move, though, some of the protesters then got in a screaming match with the fair organizers, claiming it had been set up solely to make the parolees look bad. Nonetheless, 16 people signed up for various city programs, and Jerry Brown released a pugnacious statement about not crashing people's parties. In Daly City, a middle-aged gay Asian man wearing women's clothing was found stabbed to death in his backyard. Investigators have no leads and tentatively suspect that some kind of hate crime was involved, but also note that the man had not been robbed of his jewelry and had not been sexually assaulted.

Starting today and running through Sunday, the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library are hosting their 40th annual Big Book Sale, at Fort Mason.