LA Times · Sep 24, 2015
Hate crimes edge higher in Los Angeles County in 2014
A married lesbian couple were sitting with their kids in a Long Beach laundromat last fall when a man said, "I hope your kids don't turn out gay." He lunged at them with a knife and ran away.
A Latina mother and her children were outside their Boyle Heights apartment last September when a Latino man started yelling racial slurs about her biracial kids. Days later, he put his hand on her son's head and told her to move out, calling it a "verbal warning" before something happened to the child.
That same week, someone painted "Hail Satan 666" on church grounds in Lancaster.