SF News Lyft Driver Accused of Punching Jewish Rider at SFO Gets Acquitted of Hate Crime Charges A Lyft driver faced federal hate crime charges for punching a Jewish rider at SFO in the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict, but a federal jury just ruled that it was not a hate crime, and the accused is off the hook.
SF News Update: SFPD Releases Photo of Suspect In Racist Threats at Home of Alamo Square Dogwalker; He Knows Her From Neighborhood A 67-year-old woman who was recently reported missing is the suspect that the SFPD has been seeking in connection with racist threats that were left at the home of local dogwalker Terry Williams, in the weeks before his family's Alamo Square home mysteriously burned down.
SF News Arrest Made In Alleged Hate-Crime Attack on Netflix Chef In Downtown SF A San Francisco woman who was allegedly attacked by a man who she says called her the N-word as he passed her on the street in the Financial District Monday says she no longer feels safe walking on her own in the city.
SF News Image Released of Person Who Might Be Linked to Racist Threats Against Alamo Square Dog-Walker The SFPD has released a surveillance image of a person of interest whom they are seeking for questioning in connection to the racist threats that were left at and mailed to the home of a dog-walker in Alamo Square.
SF News SFPD Has ‘Possible Suspect’ In Case of Dog Walker Whose Home Burned After Racist Threats Police say they’ve executed two search warrants and have a “possible suspect” in connection to an Alamo Square dog walker who’d received racist threats prior to his house burning, though it’s unclear whether these leads are concerning the threats, the house fire, or both.
SF News House Fire Near Alamo Square Potentially Linked to Racist Threats A house fire that broke out on the same block as the famed Painted Ladies gutted a two-unit building, and it happens to be the home of a longtime neighborhood dog-walker who was recently targeted with racist threats.
SF News Mentally Ill Man Accused of Hate Crimes In Castro Who Said Being LGBTQ Goes 'Against God' Is Acquitted of All Charges The San Francisco Public Defender's Office today announced the acquittal of a 21-year-old man who had been in jail since an arrest last June in connection with a series of incidents described as hate crimes in the Castro.
SF News Suspect at Large After Threatening Anti-Asian Hate-Speech Incident Involving Taser on Muni Bus A man reportedly went on a racist rant aboard a Muni bus last week, and a mother and her teen son are speaking out in the hopes of raising awareness and putting pressure on police.
SF News SF Man Charged With Hate Crime Over Attack on Three Chinese-American Nonprofit Workers A racist provocation in Russian Hill was caught on video that showed three Chinese-American nonprofit workers being harassed by a passerby, and the passerby now faces assault and hate crime charges.
SF News Lower Nob Hill Mosque Vandalized, Congregants Harassed At Least Twice During Ramadan An individual was caught on security camera smashing the windows of the Masjid Al-Tawheed mosque on Sutter Street last week, and reportedly returned again Tuesday to harass the assembled congregants.
SF News Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crime For Threatening and Screaming Epithets at Gay Couple A 60-year-old Oakland man is now facing hate-crime charges for criminal threats and vulgar statements he made to a gay couple who are his neighbors, and there is video showing him threatening to kill them if they didn't move within two weeks.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
SF News Lake Merritt’s Menorah Vandalized, Thrown Into Lake In Act Being Investigated as Hate Crime Vandals destroyed the Lake Merritt Hanukkah menorah early Wednesday morning, tossing its pieces into the lake and scrawling vulgar graffiti on its remains. But the rabbi whose Jewish center put the menorah up says “For every menorah they take down, we are going to put up ten.”
SF News Anti-Jewish Graffiti Appears on Market Street Following Pro-Palestinian March Following a rally and march Saturday in support of the Palestinian people, which brought thousands of activists marching up San Francisco's Market Street, some anti-Jewish and anti-Israel graffiti was found on windows along the street.
SF News Colorado Springs LGBTQ Nightclub Shooter Pleads Guilty, Still Denies It Was a Hate Crime Anderson Lee Aldrich, the accused suspect in the November 2022 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs that left five people dead, entered a guilty plea Monday and will serve a life sentence in prison.
SF News Castro Hate-Crime Suspect May Have Repeatedly Targeted the Neighborhood, Tells Judge the LGBTQ Community Goes 'Against God' Happy Pride Month, everybody! A 20-year-old suspect who was arraigned Wednesday for an alleged hate-crime attack on two men in the Castro neighborhood Monday may be a repeat offender, according to prosecutors.
SF News Man Arrested In Weekend Incident In Dolores Park Will Face Hate-Crime Charges A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.
SF News Seemingly Racist Muni Egg Attack Prompts SFPD, SFMTA Investigations A Thursday egg-throwing attack on the 38-Geary was caught on video, with some hate speech reportedly in the mix, and it turns out this suspect may have a checkered past of targeting Asian women in food-throwing attacks.
SF News Alleged Synagogue Shooter Pleads Not Guilty, But Gets Denied Release From Jail 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin had his first court appearance Friday over firing a round of blanks inside a Richmond District synagogue, and while he pleaded not guilty to firearm and hate crime charges, the judge denied his release saying he may still pose a threat to the community.
SF News San Francisco DA Files Hate-Crime Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Shot Blanks Inside Synagogue The man who shot off blank rounds inside a San Francisco synagogue last week has now been charged with hate crimes, in addition to other charges.
SF News Colorado Man Charged With Hate Crime In San Ramon In-N-Out Incident San Ramon police made quick work of identifying and locating a suspect last weekend following a Christmas Eve viral-video hate-crime incident at an In-N-Out restaurant, and a similar incident targeting AAPI victims the next day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Man's Racist, Homophobic Taunts at San Ramon In-N-Out Goes Viral on TikTok A creepy, scary, racist suspect is being sought in an incident that occurred in a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve, and most of the incident — at least the audio — was captured in a TikTok video.
SF News Hate Crime Charge Filed In Alleged Antisemitic Assault With Skateboard on Haight Street An assault that allegedly took place last week on Haight Street has been deemed a hate crime by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, and the suspect has now been charged.
SF News Alleged Club Q Mass Shooter Reportedly the Grandson of a Sitting GOP California Assemblymember We’re learning more today about the shooter in Saturday night’s massacre at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, including the fact that his grandfather is reportedly a sitting Republican California state Assemblyperson representing San Diego County.
SF News Shooter at Club Q in Colorado Kills Five, Leaves at Least Another 25 Injured On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire inside a Colorado Springs queer nightclub, fatally wounding five individuals and injuring at least twenty-five others; patrons inside Club Q are being praised for their bravery.
