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Email updatesApril 21, 2023
Press Release
... to attack power grids in the United States in furtherance white supremacy. Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, ... energy facilities to stoke division in furtherance of white supremacist ideology and now they are being held ...
April 20, 2023
Speech
... after the Civil War was to coordinate efforts to prosecute white supremacists like the Ku Klux Klan that were ...
March 19, 2023
Speech
... Department was charged with confronting and prosecuting white supremacists, including the Ku Klux Klan, who relied on ... inside our houses of worship. The 2015 shooting where a white supremacist killed nine peaceful Black worshipers in ...
March 17, 2023
Speech
... Voting discrimination and voter suppression are rampant. White supremacy and racially-motivated hate crimes are alive ... a public road in Cedar Key, Florida. And just yesterday, a white supremacist in Georgia received a 20 year sentence following ...
March 16, 2023
Press Release
... that he had killed his targets, and professed belief in white supremacist ideology. “The defendant fired a gun into a ...
March 9, 2023
Press Release
... Division. “While one might think cross-burnings and white supremacist threats and violence are things of the past, the ...
March 3, 2023
Press Release
... extremist organization Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and pro-jihadist group. “Today’s ... Melzer infiltrated the U.S. Army in service of a neo-Nazi, white supremacist and jihadist group,” said U.S. Attorney ...
January 30, 2023
Press Release
... who commit these abhorrent crimes.” “The myth of white supremacy is alive and well and can foment dangerous ... in racial hatred, expressed through their Nazi tattoos, white supremacist symbols on their clothing and their use of racist ...
January 26, 2023
Press Release
Five members and associates of a white supremacist gang were sentenced in Alaska this week to life ... (FBI) USAO - Alaska Five members and associates of a white supremacist gang were sentenced in Alaska this week to ...
December 16, 2022
Press Release
... that he had killed his targets and professed belief in white supremacist ideology and an allegiance to a white supremacist organization. ...
December 6, 2022
Speech
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks at the Civil Rights Division's 65th Anniversary
... 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. This meant confronting white supremacists who used violence and threats of violence ...
December 5, 2022
Press Release
... among other things, facilitate an attack carried out by white supremacists on a Black inmate,” said Assistant ... pretrial detainees, D.W. and M.M., to a cell row housing white supremacist inmates whom Ware knew posed a danger to D.W. and ...
October 4, 2022
Press Release
... demonstrate the Department’s commitment to holding white supremacist gangs, like the Aryan Circle, accountable for the ...
September 23, 2022
Speech
... and 15th Amendments, coordinating efforts to prosecute white supremacists like the Ku Klux Klan that were ... department. We carry out this work with a recognition that white supremacist violence is real and a threat to democracy. We ...
September 21, 2022
Press Release
... bar in Lynnwood, Washington, on Dec. 8, 2018. Three other white supremacists earlier pled guilty for their roles in this assault. “The defendant, a known white supremacist, singled out and attacked a Black man because of ...
September 15, 2022
Speech
... and in particular, fighting against the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists who were trying to deprive them of the ...
September 12, 2022
Speech
... Coketon to a school year of five months while allowing the white schools to maintain an eight-month school year. A Black ... determination to confront the real and present danger of white supremacist violence. In July, a federal grand jury returned ...
August 23, 2022
Press Release
... that, at the time of the assault, he was a member of a white supremacist support group. On Dec. 8, 2018, Smith entered a ... support group members as well as members of a higher-level white supremacist group. Smith wore clothing and patches ...
August 8, 2022
Press Release
... B. Garland. “Protecting civil rights and combatting white supremacist violence was a founding purpose of the Justice ... about Arbery that they would not have made if Arbery were white. Travis McMichael’s social media comments and text ...
July 18, 2022
Speech
... It is the NAACP that fought lynching, racial segregation, white supremacy and racial violence. It is the NAACP that has ... after the Civil War was to coordinate efforts to prosecute white supremacists like the Ku Klux Klan that were ... our country to hear this – we recognize that white supremacist violence is real and a threat to democracy. We ...
July 14, 2022
Press Release
... “The Justice Department fully recognizes the threat that white supremacist violence poses to the safety of the American ...
June 15, 2022
Speech
... mass-casualty attacks against civilians. We also know that white supremacist groups have the most persistent and concerning ... it comes to racially motivated domestic terrorism, such as white supremacist violence, often hate crimes statutes are ...
Speech
... terror against Black Americans. More than 150 years later, white supremacists are still terrorizing Black Americans and ...
Speech
... killed Black people. At one point, he aimed his rifle at a white male Tops employee, who had been shot in the leg and injured. Instead of shooting the white employee, the gunman apologized to him before ... Black Americans – and our democracy – from white supremacist violence. Today, we approach that task with the ...
May 29, 2022
Speech
... the Civil War. Its first principal task was to battle with white supremacists – particularly the Ku Klux Klan – who ...
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