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New York City police have opened a hate crime investigation into the assault last week of a woman of Asian descent riding the subway in Manhattan.

The NYPDs Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating Published December 24, 2020 • Updated on December 24, 2020 at 10:30 am Handout Police are looking for a half-dozen suspects in connection with a bias attack on a Manhattan subway that started with an argument over the victim not wearing a mask, authorities said Thursday. The 32-year-old victim was on a southbound A train at Avenue of the Americas and West Fourth Street shortly before 2 p.m. a week ago when six strangers approached and...

Some New York police officers, even those who respond to cases of antisemitic graffiti in Orthodox swaths of Brooklyn, don’t seem to know how to spell “swastika” or “yarmulke.” Surveillance cameras, even those in the subway, cannot always be relied upon to capture vandals who paint or carve hateful messages. And police officers frequently either fail to inform victims about their rights to seek compensation from the state, as is required by law, or fill out the related forms inaccurat...

(JTA) — Two men spray painted a swastika onto a Brooklyn yeshiva last weekend in an apparent hate crime, authorities said Saturday as they released surveillance video of the incident. The anti-Semitic image, along with the men’s tags, or graffiti signatures, were found on the side of Mesilas Bias Yaakov in the South Slope neighborhood last Sunday. The New York Daily News reported that the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the crime, but that so far there have been no arrests. WAN...

13 shares Illustrative: An NYPD vehicles sits outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, February 4, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA) JTA — Two men spray-painted a swastika onto a Brooklyn yeshiva last weekend in an apparent hate crime, US authorities said Saturday as they released surveillance video of the incident. The anti-Semitic image, along with the men’s tags, or graffiti signatures, were found on the side of Mesilas Bais Yaakov in the South Slope neighborh...

Police say in addition to the swastika, they spray-painted the words Ace and Rico. Governor Andrew Cuomo released a statement condemning the vandalism, "I am disgusted by reports of anti-Semitic graffiti that was recently found scrawled on the side of Mesilas Bais Yaakov in Brooklyn. This bigoted attack - which came as the family of New York celebrated Hanukkah - is simply despicable, and the fact that these vandals targeted an institution focused on educating our children makes their act of ha...

URBANA — A Champaign man who admitted having stolen guns in his home almost two years ago has been sentenced to four years in prison. Walter Willis, 27, who listed an address in the 1700 block of West John Street, will turn himself in to begin his sentence Jan. 8. He pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge Randy Rosenbaum to aggravated possession of stolen firearms, admitting that on Jan. 31, 2019, there were two stolen guns in a bedroom closet of his John Street home. Champaign County Stree...

URBANA — An Urbana man who allegedly had 32 bags of crack cocaine on him when arrested has been charged as a Class X felon. William Rogers, 56, who listed an address in the 1300 block of Silver Street, had been under investigation by the Champaign County Street Crimes Task Force for a few months. Assistant State’s Attorney Krisitin Alferink told Judge Adam Dill on Monday that Rogers allegedly sold crack cocaine to an informant at different locations on three different days in Septembe...