Hatewatch Headlines 4/19/18
Police ready for neo-Nazis at Saturday rally in Georgia; Kansas trio convicted in Somali bomb plot; YouTube is inconsistent in dealing with neo-Nazi music, and more.
: Police will outnumber neo-Nazis at Saturday rally in Newnan, Georgia.
: Kansas trio convicted in bomb plot to kill Somali immigrants.
: The Republican-dominated House in Tennessee votes to punish the city of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments.
: Illinois House Deputy Majority Leader Lou Lang says he’ll push to pass an anti-neo-Nazi resolution that has stalled in the Tennessee House.
: Facebook asked conservatives for help last week fending off European-style privacy rules, just as CEO Mark Zuckerbergapologized to Congress for his company's data scandal.
: Black students are taunted as “slaves” at Michigan school.
: Across the United States, white nationalists and their sympathizers are running for office —and they don’t need to win to be dangerous.
: Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who has rubbed elbows with white nationalists, is found in contempt of court for failing to notify voters they were registered to vote.
: Right-wing media promote an antisemitic extremist to mock Starbucks controversy.
: State police dedicate helipad to trooper-pilot killed during last August’s white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
: White nationalists are spreading conspiracy theories that Trump is being controlled by the “deep state” and the chemical attack in Syria didn’t happen.
: An investigation findsinconsistencies in how YouTube deals with neo-Nazi music advocatingmurder and violence.