Five years later, a gay Jewish student’s alleged killer is going to trial
Prosecutors are expected to argue that the murder of Blaze Bernstein was rooted in homophobia
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Murder Suspect Allegedly Targeted Him Because He Was Gay
(JTA) — The man accused of killing Blaze Bernstein will face a hate crime charge for targeting the college student because of his sexual orientation. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office in California announced the new charge against Samuel Woodward, 20, on Thursday. Bernstein was Jewish and gay. Bernstein’s body was found in January after…
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Fast Forward YouTube Won’t Ban Neo-Nazi Group Linked To Blaze Bernstein’s Murder
YouTube refuses to take down videos made by the neo-Nazi militia group Atomwaffen, the Daily Beast reported. Atomwaffen has cells in over two-dozen states, and has been linked to (multiple murders over the past year.](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/atomwaffen-nazi-murder-bomb-plot_us_5a70825ae4b00d0de2240328) One of it’s members, Sam Woodward, has been accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, a Jewish teenager from California. The group…
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Fast Forward Chats Show Neo-Nazis Celebrated Blaze Bernstein Murder
The man accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein exchanged racist and anti-Semitic messages with members of a neo-Nazi militia group, according to a new report from ProPublica.. ProPublica obtained 250,000 encrypted messages sent over Discord, an online chat service, from Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi extremist group. The messages reveal the group celebrating the January stabbing murder…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein’s High School Classmate Pleads Not Guilty To Murder
(JTA) — A former high school classmate of Blaze Bernstein, 19, the Jewish college student found dead in a park near his parents’ Southern California home, pleaded not guilty to murder charges. Samuel Woodward, 20, of Newport Beach, California, was ordered held on $5 million bail, after he issued his plea on Friday in Orange County…
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News What Is Atomwaffen Division, The Nazi Group Tied To The Murder Of Blaze Bernstein?
Samuel Lincoln Woodward, the teenager who was recently charged with the brutal murder of the 19-year-old Jewish student Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of a growing American Nazi organization — a group that has quickly shot to the forefront of the white supremacist movement with its dark promises of violence and an impending race…
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Fast Forward Parents Of Blaze Bernstein ‘Preach Love’ After Son’s Murder
The parents of slain Jewish teenager Blaze Bernstein spoke this morning with a Fox station in California about how they are coping with their son’s death and trying to shift public focus from tragedy to optimism. “We want this to be more than a moment, we want this to be a movement,” said Gideon Bernstein,…
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Opinion My Son, Blaze Bernstein, Was Murdered. Then Came The Outpouring Of Love.
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