News Roundup for June 23, 2011
A settlement in a lawsuit over 鈥渂latantly racist and offensive鈥� comments made by white Philadelphia officers on the popular police Internet forum聽 Domelights.com. The settlement requires the city to hire an anti-discrimination consultant as well as enhance anti-discrimination training within the department.
Two New York men to charges of attempting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue. The two men, both immigrants from North Africa, are accused of attempting to purchase weapons from undercover NYPD detectives and planned to carry out a bomb attack on an unnamed synagogue. The men are suspected of being lone wolves, with no connection to international terrorist groups.
A member of the white supremacist group Battalion 14 of North East White Pride to 30 months in prison Wednesday for attempting to sell guns to an associate of the Ku Klux Klan. William Bolton is the third man to be charged in the conspiracy to obtain weapons for other racist groups in order to raise the standing of the Connecticut gang in the white nationalist community.
Two Orange County skinheads have to a 2009 home invasion in which the two, and a third man, assaulted a female victim. The skinheads were sent to the house by another man who told them they would find $7,000 in cash as well as 50 pounds of marijuana.
The of Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders today on hate speech charges has drawn widespread praise across the radical-right world, including commentators such as , who praised the ruling as a 鈥渄ecisive defeat for the Islamic supremacist forces,鈥� and , who described Wilders as 鈥渙ur proxy鈥� as 鈥渢he West is on trial.鈥�
