Crime & Safety

FBI Report: One Race-Related Hate Crime Reported in Northville in 2010

The incident involved a threat made by one 13-year-old to a classmate.

There was one hate crime reported to Northville police in 2010, according to a report issued Monday by the FBI.

It was one of 145 race-related hate crimes reported last year statewide. In total, there were 221 hate crimes – on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation and disability – reported in Michigan, according to the report.

The 2010 incident in the city of Northville involved a then-13-year-old girl who was accused of harassing and threatening a classmate of Asian descent, according to the city's police report. It was reported to the police by the school's principal.

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The mother of the girl who was threatened told her daughter's teacher that her then-14-year-old was called "a yellow Asian and a Lemon head," according to the report. When her daughter told the girl to stop, the girl "became angered and threatened to slit (her) throat with a knife."

The girl who made the threats was expelled and no charges were filed in the case, at the request of the parents of the girl who was threatened.

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The number of people who identify themselves as Asian increased greatly in Northville over the past ten years, according to .

The report found that nationally, there were 6,628 criminal incidents involving 7,699 offenses reported in 2010 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability.


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