Events at 3 N.J. colleges were ‘Zoom bombed’. Officials say these ‘terrifying’ incidents are on the rise.
Updated Feb 21, 2021;
Posted Feb 21, 2021
A number of events in New Jersey have recently been disrupted by racist Zoom bombing, in which outsiders join a virtual meeting in order to harass the participants.AFP via Getty Images
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Until it turned ugly.
In a detailed post on the fraternity’s Instagram account, the group said white supremacists Zoom bombed the event, writing racial slurs in the chat, changing their usernames to invoke racism, playing a KKK song that says “Kill all Black people,” and then running a video clip of Black people being brutalized and murdered.
local and federal law enforcement. do you see this as a surge in plots? is it people like this co-workers hearing something, saying i have to tell someone about this? the fbi director was careful, talking about hate crimes, bias crimes, what appears to be a proliferation of these things, and he said we re not certainly if there is an up tick or just better reporting. erica to your point, could this be better reporting? look, we just had three successful shootings, from the bad guys perspective. i know we don t always hear about all the arrests made, for often reasons. but when we re looking at the spate of them, and you say this is what law enforcement does every day and twice on destined, does this point out the need no
tonight smollett is maintaining his innocence which could make it worse, and he has given fodder for those that say bias crimes are exaggerated. push back is that solving other crimes of this nature is not as big a priority. the whole thing is a mess. let s bring in someone that once knew the accused and stood behind him initially after the first report. actor, radio host, d.l. hugley. d.l., thank you for joining us. anything for you, man. i appreciate it. i wish we had something better to talk about. initially you tweeted that you felt for jussie smollett. you didn t like what was happening. but now, you have your own reservations and you think this is not what he said it was. well, i tell you what, i think that in this country we have our ability to call b.s. when we see it.
amount of attention that the hoax did. tonight smollett is maintaining his innocence which could make it worse, and he has given fodder for those that say bias crimes are exaggerated. push back is that solving other crimes of this nature is not as big a priority. the whole thing is a mess. let s bring in someone that once knew the accused and stood behind him initially after the first report. actor, radio host, d.l. hugley. d.l., thank you for joining us. anything for you, man. i appreciate it. i wish we had something better to talk about. initially you tweeted that you felt for jussie smollett. you didn t like what was happening. but now, you have your own reservations and you think this is not what he said it was. well, i tell you what, i think that in this country we
and i want to see all politicians, especially the president, because the president sets a tone for the nation, take every opportunity to speak out against it. according to the anti-defamation league, it says 2017 was the third highest year for anti-muslim attacks. 2016 was the second highest year since 2001, post 9/11. angela, last word. 15 seconds, if you will. sure. just quickly, i think of jordan davenport who was just killed in cypress, texas this week. i think about the many things that we continue to see on our watch. and i would hasten us to say do not engage in the both sides. it s not both sides. it s time to call this out for what it is. i ve got to go. but let s see. 56% of the victims targeted because of the because of race, ethnicity, ancestry. notably of the 1,679 religious bias crimes reported in 2017, 58.1% were anti-jewish. 18.7 were anti-muslim. this is crazy. it s got to stop, y all. thank you for your time. thanks for watching. our coverage continues.s pr he