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News Roundup for June 27, 2011

White nationalist Richard Poplawski was found of murdering three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush.  The jury today began deliberating Poplawski’s fate. He faces the death penalty.

A skinhead leader pleaded to the revenge killing of a Missouri man. , co-founder of the Vinlanders Social Club and a former skinhead musician, admitted to shooting William McDaniel, who had caused the drunk driving death of a friend of Fairburn.

The residents of a Michigan town were startled when they members of the West Michigan Volunteer Militia training in the nearby Manistee National Forest. Local authorities allowed the military-style training exercises, but residents’ concerns have been revived due to a recent increase militia activity throughout the state.

Federal prosecutors are prison time for a New York man who harassed public employees through the mail. Richard Ulloa is a who sent fake bills to bank executives and public employees in an attempt to intimidate them and stop foreclosure on his home and property.

Two Oregon men have been with a hate crime after harassing a man with gay slurs and then assaulting him. Authorities say the two men pushed the victim to the ground and kicked him repeatedly before a bystander stepped in and defended the victim. The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ reported recently that LGBT people are by far the group for violent hate crimes.

Police in Lancaster, Calif., are a spree of graffiti sprayings that advocated the murder of gay people. Sheriff’s detectives are considering the occurrence as a possible hate crime.

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