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Hatewatch Headlines 6/16/2016

Sessions claims gays weren’t targets in Orlando; DeLay calls Obama a communist Muslim; County lowers its flags after all; and more.

: Indiana man arrested near L.A. gay-pride parade was fleeing arrest for child molestation.

: Rep. Pete Sessions blocks nondiscrimination bill after claiming gay people weren’t targets in Orlando shooting.

: Man arrested after armed standoff, threats made against Northgate-area mosque.

: South Carolina man admits he lied to FBI about his role in Doggart’s violent plot against Muslims.

: Former House Speaker Tom DeLay says President Obama is a communist ‘Muslim sympathizer’ who ‘hates America.’

: Jackson city council adds LGBT protections to citywide antidiscrimination law.

: White man charged with hate crime after viciously beating black man, saying ‘the white man won for once.’

: Watch a professor shred a Fox host’s defense of Trump’s racist call to ban Muslim immigrants.

: Southern Baptists should be congratulated for voting to take down that Confederate flag.

: Pennsylvania governor orders removal of Confederate flag from state capitol display.

: Cole County commissioners first refuse to fly flag at half staff, then change minds after uproar.

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