Hatewatch Headlines 6/9/2017

BuzzFeed: White kids are bullying minority students using Trump’s words, and teachers don’t know what to do about it.

Think Progress: While Trump cracks down on immigration in the U.S., children are fleeing horrors in Central America.

Media Matters: Alex Jones claims he’s ‘been invited and could have gone and met the president.’

Metro Weekly (Washington, DC): Hornet launches billboard campaign to counter anti-LGBT hate groups.

Kansas City Star (MO): Kris Kobach announces his candidacy for Kansas’ governorship.

Salon: Arizona’s Confederate memorials aren’t about history, they’re about opposition to racial equality.

UPI: St. Louis begins removing massive Confederate monument that has been frequent target of vandals.

Yes!: Stop making excuses for hateful white men who kill people by putting it down to mental illness.

Seattle Times: Seattle police prepare for Saturday’s ‘March Against Sharia’ and counterprotest.

Oregonian: Portland police investigating racist threats against Good in the Hood festival.

The Stranger (Seattle, WA): Neo-Nazi group posts flyers at Evergreen State College after student demonstrations.

Times-Picayune (New Orleans): Fired New Orleans school principal says he’s not a white supremacist.

Tulsa World (OK): Jury recommends 78-year sentence for Aryan Brotherhood member in drug case.

Mic: Police identify suspect in murder of black trans woman in San Antonio.

East Bay Times (CA): Prosecutor declines to file hate-crime charge in stabbing of black man by Trump fan amid argument.

Raw Story: ‘This is not Alabama in the 1940s’: Black woman sues boss over Confederate flag, Trump related harassment.