DA seeking hate crime in swastika case
Farmington Deputy DA said crime “calls for it”
Updated: Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 11:50 AM MDT
Published : Monday, 10 May 2010, 7:49 PM MDT
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) - The District Attorney’s Office in Farmington said it will seek hate crime enhancements on the three men accused of branding a 22-year-old developmentally challenged Native American man with a swastika.Published : Monday, 10 May 2010, 7:49 PM MDT
Source: KRQE
Grants Police Investigate Hate Crimes
1 Man Arrested In Connection To Series Of Beatings
POSTED: 12:21 am MDT June 30, 2009
UPDATED: 12:39 am MDT June 30, 2009
GRANTS, N.M. --
Grants police said they are investigating a series of hate crimes.In just over a week, five homeless Native American men were beaten by a group of people.Police said they have one man in custody Monday.Police said it started June 9.Investigators said they were hoping the first beating was an isolated incident, but it kept happening over and over again to the same group of people.
UPDATED: 12:39 am MDT June 30, 2009
GRANTS, N.M. --
Grants police said they are investigating a series of hate crimes.In just over a week, five homeless Native American men were beaten by a group of people.Police said they have one man in custody Monday.Police said it started June 9.Investigators said they were hoping the first beating was an isolated incident, but it kept happening over and over again to the same group of people.
SOURCE: KOAT
Thursday, October 8, 2009
John Redhouse: Hate crimes against Natives in Grants, New Mexico
Longtime Navajo activist John Redhouse shares his writing, an interview and background, on hate crimes in New Mexico, uranium mining and protecting sacred places. Native Americans in New Mexico are preparing for the Indigenous Uranium Forum at Sky City in Acoma Pueblo, N.M., Oct. 22--24, 2009.
Subject: Recent hate crime spree in Grants probably connected to backlash to recent designation of Mount Taylor as traditional cultural property
By John Redhouse, Navajo
Date: June 28, 2009
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