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A WETHERSPOONS customer who ordered a banana to a black man's table using the pub chain’s app has been convicted of a racially-motivated hate crime.

Punter Louie Kincella, 20, sent the piece of fruit to Mark D'arcy-Smith's table at the Richmal Crompton in Bromley, south east London.

Last Friday, Kincella, of Mottingham, was found guilty of a racially aggravated offence under the Public Order Act at Bexley Magistrate's Court.

He was slapped with a £600 fine, and has to pay costs of £620 in addition.

Two Muslim women were 'stabbed repeatedly' under the Eiffel Tower amid rising tensions in Paris after the beheading of a teacher last week.

French police have arrested two female suspects after an argument about dogs allegedly descended into violence and racist insults including the words 'Dirty Arabs'.

One of the Muslim women said the attackers had pulled out a knife after refusing to put their dogs on a leash and slashed her on the skull, arm and ribs.

The victims of Sunday's attacks have been identified as French women from an Algerian background named only as Kenza, 49, and Amel, who is a few years younger.

Those in custody are described as being white women of 'European appearance', who now face 'attempted murder' charges
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Kenza was stabbed six times and ended up in hospital with a punctured lung, while surgery was carried out on one of Amel's hands, said an investigating source.
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Witnesses say they heard smears including 'Dirty Arab!' and 'Go home to your own country'.

Kenza and her cousin Amel were repeatedly stabbed near the Eiffel Tower on October 18 while going on a walk with their family. Speaking to TRT World, Kenza recalls the horrific attack.
#MuslimsFrance #MacronIslam #EiffelTowerStabbing

CNN's Amara Walker describes three back-to-back racist encounters she experienced at New Orleans International Airport.

Mother May I
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My son is half Asian and the amount of racism he has been the target of this year has FAR exceeded anything he’s ever been through. The kids say horrible things to him. In March his school nurse called me and asked me “what kind of Asian he is.” She said she was trying to “determine whether he would be a risk to other students.” Needless to say I was mortified! I didn’t even share this conversation with my son because he has already dealt with so much of this garbage this year and in general. And it hurts him. He’s only 10 and he’s already learning first hand about racism and white supremacy. We had a talk about it last year. But I have to admit, much of the talk about centered around racism towards black and brown folks and learning how to be ANTI-racist, himself. Of course we discussed how he could and likely would be the target of it at times throughout his life but I feel like our talk never could have prepared him for the amount of racism he’s experienced this year.

Please folks, just be kind and thoughtful with your words. You never know if your children are listening and will repeat what you’re saying behind closed doors (or in public). And talk to your children about the importance of kindness and respect and about being ANTI-racist.

Robert Paul Keegan, 47, of Talent, entered the plea Friday to charges including second-degree murder in the fatal Nov. 23 shooting of 19-year-old Aidan Ellison, according to the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office.

INDIANAPOLIS – A Black doctor who died of COVID-19 after weeks of battling the virus had said she was mistreated and delayed proper care at an Indiana hospital because of her race.

Dr. Susan Moore, 52, died Dec. 20 following multiple hospitalizations for complications from COVID-19, first at IU Health North and later at Ascencion-St. Vincent in Carmel, Indiana.
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She described having her complaints of severe neck pain disregarded, despite drawing from her years of medical expertise to make a self-assessment.

"I was crushed," a tearful Moore said of the doctor's refusal to provide her pain medication. "He made me feel like I was a drug addict. And he knew I was a physician. I don't take narcotics. I was hurting."

She said she had to plead with and convince her physician she was having trouble breathing before receiving a CT scan. When the scan revealed that what she was saying was true, she was given medication to manage her pain. But only after hours of waiting.

“I put forth and I maintain," she said in the video, "if I was white, I wouldn’t have to go through that.”
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After being sent home, Moore was back in a hospital bed within 12 hours, according to her Facebook updates.
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"Those people were trying to kill me. Clearly everyone has to agree they (discharged) me way too soon," she wrote of IU Health before giving an assessment of her care at Ascencion-St. Vincent. "They are now treating me for a bacterial pneumonia as well as Covid pneumonia

Despite the change in care, Moore's condition continued to deteriorate. She died in the hospital three weeks after her Nov. 29 diagnosis.

Moore's experience and death sparked outrage and sadness across social media. Many pointed to it as the latest example of racism and discrimination in health care, as well as the disproportionate toll COVID-19 has taken among Black patients.

Footage caught by the home's video doorbell camera on the evening of Dec. 17 shows a white man wearing a UPS uniform, standing on a porch while holding a package and writing what appears to be a "failed to deliver" notice.

“Now you don’t get f------ nothing...You can’t read and write and speak the f------ English language," the UPS driver is seen saying as he pastes the notice in the home's door. A young Latino police officer lives in the house.

"UPS is huge, they're global and this serves for any other businesses that are delivering packages, you can't do that. You can't just look at a package and make these crazy assumptions," Shirley Aviles, the mother of the Latino officer who lives in the house, told NBC News by phone.
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Digital logs from the video doorbell camera service provided by the family and shared with reporters by Forward Latino do not show the UPS worker ringing the doorbell when he delivered the package to the Aviles household. Morin added there's also no evidence that the worker ever knocked on the door.