Hatewatch Headlines 3/4/15

New York Times: Justice Department finds that Ferguson police routinely violate the rights of blacks.

Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA): Police investigating threatening hate mail sent to head of local NAACP chapter.

NewNowNext: Anti-gay Benham brothers claim they cured a man’s homosexuality through Jesus and a baseball game.

Think Progress: Democrats’ robocall attacking Republicans invokes nativist stereotypes about terrorists crossing the border.

Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL): Ormond man charged with hate crime for bottle-bashing assault: ‘This bar is not for blacks.’

AlterNet: Five signs that Scott Walker may be keeping the Republican embrace of the ‘Southern Strategy’ alive.

Right Wing Watch: Matt Barber warns radio audience that gay marriage will be ‘the sledgehammer used to crush the Church.’

Idaho Statesman: Hindu prayer opens Idaho legislative session, lawmakers walk out in protest.