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Anthony Paz Torres pleaded guilty to five federal hate crimes for killing one person and attempting to kill four others at a tire shop on Buckner Boulevard in 2015, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.
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Bradley Stanford allegedly yelled a homophobic slur at Akira Ross before fatally shooting her at a gas station June 2.
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"Texas is becoming a dangerous place for Latinos because state and local authorities refuse to take our safety seriously," said San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro.
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Law enforcement officials have pointed out the Allen outlet mall shooter had neo-Nazi beliefs, but they stopped short of assigning racism as a motive. Activists say that shows a pattern of misunderstanding bias.
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When Texas civil rights hero Frank J. Robinson died in 1976 there was a public outcry for an independent investigation. That never happened, and since then there have been doubts about the official ruling of suicide. In the final part of his series Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports on calls for a new investigation.
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Extremism experts and historians sound alarms as politicians, media personalities and celebrities amplify antisemitic conspiracies that have historically led to the killing of Jews.
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Plano mayor John Muns said the video of a woman hurling racist slurs at a group of South Asian women outside a Plano restaurant was "appalling."
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The arrest was connected to a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown. The suspect's girlfriend said he had delusions that Asian Americans were trying to harm him.
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On Wednesday, a group of Dallas lawyers and advocates gathered at a Korean restaurant in the Asian Trade District to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, when a man targeted women of Asian descent, killing eight people.
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Mayor Eric Johnson has formed a new Anti-Hate Advisory Council that aims to address an increasing number of hate crimes over the past year.
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The Dallas Police Department is joining with Safe Place and Dallas Hope Charities to encourage hate crime victims to report hate crimes. They encourage businesses to partner with them as they focus on the LGBTQ community.
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Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday.