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Des Moines Register DES MOINES, Iowa — A woman charged with intentionally hitting two children with her vehicle in December 2019 — because of their skin color — pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to two hate crime charges. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, of Des Moines, Iowa, was charged after a string of incidents on Dec. 9, 2019, during which police said she hit a 12-year-old boy, who is Black, and a 14-year-old girl, who is Latina, with her car and yelled racial and ethnic slurs at a gas station employee. Poole made her initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Sout...

A woman was told to put on a mask inside a Florida Walgreens. Instead she went on a racist and Islamophobic rant against other customers. INSIDER 3 days ago salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © Associated Press/Ted S. Warren Protesters hold a signs at a rally in Seattle on June 10, 2017. Associated Press/Ted S. Warren A woman unleashed an Islamophobic and racist rant on a group shopping at a Florida Walgreens. The rant started after employees told the woman to wear a mask. Instead, the woman turned her attention to a couple and their friend. A New York coup...

Rolling Stone Menu GOP Lawmaker Uses 9/11 to Troll Ilhan Omar The congressman has since deleted the gutless Islamophobic social media post By Sipa USA via AP Murphy responded to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s post about the death of Capitol Police Officer William Evans, who was fatally injured in a car-ramming attack near the Capitol building. “Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force,” Omar tweeted on the day of the incident, adding, “The death toll would ...

A police officer was killed when a suspect rammed him and another officer with his car outside the Capitol on Friday. The suspect wielded a knife and was shot dead. The other officer hit by the car survived. The attack came not quite three months after supporters of Donald Trump attacked the Capitol on 6 January, seeking to overturn the election. A police officer was one of five people who died as a direct result. Omar was at the Capitol that day. In January, she told the Guardian she “didn’t know if I would make it out” and had called her ex-husband “to make sure he would continue to...

Police will allege the 19-year-old attempted to engage in a terrorist act. Police say they suspect two incidents that occurred earlier in the year – a fire lit on February 18 in bushland outside of Melbourne and a public assault on a person in metropolitan Melbourne on March 10 – could have been motivated by religious extremism. Victoria Police Counter Terrorism Command Assistant Commissioner Michael Hermans said investigators believed the risk posed by the three individuals had been increasing, prompting police to carry out the raids under Operation Loon Beek. “We saw a risk p...