If you don't punish fake hate crime claims, you'll get more fake hate crime claims.
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This is one of the pieces about a hate crime: Proving a hate crime is tricky.
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Every hate crime expert I spoke to agreed that hate crime laws probably don't deter any crimes.
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And hate crime laws vary from state to state; five states have no hate crime laws at all.
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Georgia does not have a hate crime law, but the FBI has said it opened a hate crime investigation.
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The FBI's latest hate crime statistics showed that the LGBTQ community is the number one target of hate crime.
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In 2009, 50 years after the first hate crime laws were passed, an amendment was made to federal hate crime law.
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Beyond prosecutions, this also explains why hate crime reporting is so poor: When you can't charge or convict someone for a hate crime, it's going to be hard to report it as a hate crime in official police statistics.
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Part of the problem is that hate crime legislation differs by state; in sixteen states, hate crime laws don't cover sexual orientation or gender identity while four states (Wyoming, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Indiana), don't have any hate crime laws on the books.
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"Sheriff's Hate Crime detectives were called to the scene to begin their investigation into the possible hate crime," the department said in a statement.
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Police reject hate crime claims Local authorities have called Nabra's death a road-rage incident and declined to investigate it as a hate crime.
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Why hate crime laws matter Given that hate-crime charges require more legal hurdles and more work, what is the benefit of their use?
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But police won't charge Covington, a 50-year-old Mississippi native, with a hate crime, due to a loophole in Utah's hate crime statute.
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If all states offered inclusive protections in their hate crime laws, required hate crime reporting and data collection from law enforcement, and authorized comprehensive police training on investigating and reporting hate crime incidents, maybe then we would have more accurate and representative federal statistics.
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"I have enough there to say it's a hate crime," Petruch said, adding that his department had notified the FBI of the hate crime investigation.
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The FBI's most recent Hate Crime Statistics Report, released on Tuesday, recorded 24 hate crime murders committed in 2018, a rise from the year before.
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Invisible hate crimes Beirich and Stacy emphasized that FBI hate crime statistics are grossly underreported, mainly because the hate crime reports are handed in voluntarily.
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Focusing on the victims While the Hate Crime Task Force focuses on finding the perpetrator of a hate crime, a related group focuses on the victims.
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North Carolina is one of 23 states that either have no hate crime law or have hate crime laws that do not apply to gender identity.
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"We're not saying it's not a hate crime, so we're going to treat it as a hate crime until [and if] the investigation proves otherwise," Const.
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And while 45 of the 50 U.S. states have some type of hate crime law on the books, only about 30 have hate crime misdemeanor offenses.
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Hate crime laws The first challenge for a hate crime prosecution will be to determine if this was an act of specific hate from general rage.
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But prosecutor Tom Wine said that because Kentucky's hate crime statute does not include homicides, Bush was not charged with a hate crime in the deaths.
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The Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act aims to improve the accuracy of hate crime reporting and provide resources for state hate crime hotlines, among other provisions.
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There are also different legal thresholds for what cops can deem a hate crime in their reports and what qualifies as a hate crime in the courtroom.
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Dylan Wade Butler pleaded guilty in 183 to committing a hate crime and conspiring to commit a hate crime in the killing of James Craig Anderson, 218.
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Dedmon, now 25, pleaded guilty in 2012 to committing a hate crime and conspiring to commit a hate crime, and was sentenced in 2015 to 50 years.
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Joshua Vallum had already pleaded guilty in state court, but federal hate crime charges were filed because Mississippi doesn't have a hate crime law for gender. 4.
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In this case, Blackwell didn't face a hate crime charge because Georgia doesn't have a hate crime law — but he still got a very long prison sentence.
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MTA announces new hate crime campaign The attack coincides with a new anti-hate crime campaign by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees New York's public transit.
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Attorney general Loretta Lynch addresses the uptick in hate crime Attorney general Loretta Lynch addresses the uptick in hate crime Outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed the "alarming trends" in recently released 123 hate crime data in a video statement posted to YouTube by the Justice Department Friday.
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The charges were all supplemented with a "bias-related hate crime" enhancement, which, under DC's hate crime laws, could increase jail time if the defendants are found guilty.
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The big picture: 15 U.S. states don't include gender identity or sexual orientation in hate crime laws, per CNN, and five don't have hate crime laws at all.
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Washington (CNN)A majority of hate crime incidents are not reported to police, according to the results of a new Department of Justice hate crime report released Thursday.
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Bush was indicted on two counts of a hate crime resulting in death and one count of a hate crime with attempt to kill, the federal indictment said.
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However, charging someone with a hate crime in a jurisdiction without local hate crime laws can be much more difficult than in places with the laws, Stacy says.
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But when prosecutors tried to add a hate crime charge, the court would only allow him to be charged with a misdemeanor hate crime, rather than a felony.
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Jabara does not show up in the hate crime statistics for Tulsa, Oklahoma, for 2016, though like Charlottesville, the police do submit hate crime numbers to the FBI.
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The charges were all supplemented with a "bias-related hate crime" enhancement, which, under D.C.'s hate crime laws, could increase jail time if the defendants are found guilty.
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Civil rights group wants hate-crime probe The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called for a hate-crime investigation.
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The case is currently being investigated as a possible malicious harassment under the Washington's hate-crime statute, but police are also investigating the assault as a possible hate crime.
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However, civil rights groups are warning that the legislation, which echoes language used in hate crime laws, could manipulate the intent of those hate crime measures, the website reported.
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How major cases slip through the cracks Heather Heyer is not the only victim of a hate crime whose case is not registered in the annual hate crime report.
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In the third quarter of 2019, hate crime incidents aimed at Jewish people made up nearly half of all hate crime complaints compiled by police in New York City.
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Suspect faces federal hate crime charge Federal prosecutors have also charged Thomas with obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill -- a federal hate crime.
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Hate crime charge dropped A judge Tuesday dropped the hate crime charge against Urbanski, saying prosecutors did not prove the killing was motivated by hate, the Baltimore Sun reported.
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The difficulty of hate crime charges Although Bush does not face hate crime charges at this time, several officials have said they believe the crimes may fit that definition.
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Local officials described his actions as a "hate crime," and San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said Earnest may face additional hate crime charges when he's arraigned later this week.
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Looking at monthly data from New York City, from 163 to 216, they found that unemployment rates had no real relationship with hate crime rates, regardless of hate crime type.
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Hate crime charge could be forthcoming Jay Boyarsky, the Santa Clara County chief assistant district attorney, did not dismiss the possibility of officially considering the incident as a hate crime.
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Deputy Inspector Mark Molinari, the commanding officer of the Hate Crime Task Force, said he has not seen a hate crime incident at a Pride event in New York City.
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How the task force works The Hate Crime Task Force was launched under Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2000 as part of an initiative to enhance hate crime investigations and prosecutions.
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Detective Vasquez told the court that a detective from the hate crime task force was present during Dixon's 2013 interview; yet Dixon has not been charged with a hate crime.
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Mississippi man sentenced for hate-crime killing of transgender woman The department has secured at least 15 indictments in federal hate crime cases since President Donald Trump took office in January.
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The murder also galvanized wider advocacy for better hate crime legislation; at the time of Shepard's death, sexual orientation was not considered valid grounds for designating an attack a hate crime.
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Still, the bill's advocates argue that extending the prohibition on firearm possession from hate crime felonies to misdemeanors would close an important gap at a time of rising hate crime activity.
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Not only do we deal with hate crime, we have to deal with the reporting of hate crime," Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day.
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Hawaii does not even participate in the national hate crime statistics program, and aside from Nevada, an additional 11 participating states had fewer than 10 agencies report hate crime incidents in 2017.
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She is heartened that the F.B.I. is now investigating the Olathe shooting as a hate crime, and called for hate crime statutes in the five states that have yet to pass them.
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But any Muslim who's gonna say we have this epidemic of hate crime in the US against Muslims and Islamophobia is a big problem has to deal with the fact that, for every year that they've been worrying about that, anti-Semitic hate crime has been five times worse in the US than anti-Muslim hate crime.
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The boys, 14 and 15, face a variety of charges, including assault as a hate crime, harassment as a hate crime and acting in a manner injurious to a child, the police said.
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Investigators are treating the attack as a hate crime and Rowe has been charged with 2 counts of first degree assault and one count of malicious harassment under Washington State's "hate crime" law.
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"It wasn't meant to be a hate crime," she said.
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The charges carried hate crime enhancements, the charging documents said.
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His attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Hate crime laws act as a countermessage to that bigotry.
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The FBI are investigating it as a possible hate crime.
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Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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The FBI is investigating the murder as a hate crime.
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That incident is currently being investigated as a hate crime.
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Indiana is one of five states without hate crime laws.
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Should the law presume that this is a hate crime?
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And there'd be no question that it's a hate crime.
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The cops are investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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There were no charges of a hate crime, Bronner said.
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They are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Everybody should be pleased that a hate crime didn't happen.
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Abortion is a genocide, a hate crime, a second Holocaust.
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Fields has pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
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"One hate crime doesn't change the whole neighborhood," he said.
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That's up from 5,2000 reported hate crime incidents in 22004.
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A suspect was later arrested and faced hate crime charges.
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Since then incidents of hate crime have risen, police say.
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They have not determined whether it was a hate crime.
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In fact, Georgia has no hate crime law at all.
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Here's why the incident wasn't characterized as a hate crime.
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LOVE AND HATE CRIME: A MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI 10 p.m.
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Campus police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.
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The hate crime charge is a felony, Gouverneur police Sgt.
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The white suspect was indicted on federal hate crime charges.
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Federal prosecutors have also filed hate crime charges against him.
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Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Here's why she can't be charged with a hate crime.
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The NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the incidents.
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Federal prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a suspect.
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The F.B.I. is investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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He has been charged with assault as a hate crime.
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"We anticipate some kind of hate crime charges," he said.
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The shooting at Mother Emanuel was a racist hate crime.
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"Most people do not want to make a mistake and categorize something as a hate crime that cannot be proven as a hate crime," explains Brackney, who took charge ten months after Heyer was killed.
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US Attorney Russell Coleman announcing federal hate crime charges on Thursday.
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They say in addition to terrorism this is a hate crime.
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The tragic killing of Timothy Caughman is a heinous hate crime.
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Indiana, just east of Illinois, has no hate crime statute whatsoever.
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"This is a hate crime," more than one Twitter user joked.
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Louisiana has a hate crime law, but not all states do.
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Poway Mayor Steve Vaus described the incident as a hate crime.
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Purinton pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge earlier this year.
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Booker and Harris to make lynching a federal hate crime. Sen.
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Federal authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Holden Matthews, 21, pleaded not guilty to three hate crime counts.
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Civil rights activists claim the Pulse massacre was a hate crime.
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"Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime," Kornreich wrote.
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Hate crime charges don't often add significant time to a sentence.
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Police do not believe this was a hate crime, he added.
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Hate crime laws act as a counter-message to that bigotry.
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Others are calling it a hate crime against the LGBT community.
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Nesbitt's killing is not currently being investigated as a hate crime.
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What will it take to prosecute this as a hate crime?
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Additionally, males and females experienced similar rates of hate crime victimization.
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The charges included nine counts of hate crime resulting in death.
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Authorities plan to investigate whether the killing is a hate crime.
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Finally, and most importantly, this was framed as a hate crime.
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Now police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Police say they're not investigating the killing as a hate crime.
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The shooter, Adam Purinton, was convicted on federal hate crime charges.
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"I don't know what a hate crime is anymore," he said.
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Authorities say they are investigating the case as a hate crime.
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A suspect was apprehended and hate crime charges have been filed.
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The users could potentially face charges under Brazil's hate crime laws.
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Officials said prosecuting the case as a hate crime remained possible.
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Police have been investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Many hate-crime offenders believe that society supports their violent prejudices.
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Prosecutors announced Wednesday that her death was not a hate crime.
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Both state and federal prosecutors are calling it a hate crime.
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The FBI has been collecting data on hate crime since 1990.
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Both state and federal hate crime laws now bear his name.
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They tried to have me go down for a hate crime.
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His two assailants were indicted on assault and hate crime charges.
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The FBI is investigating the incident as a suspected hate crime.
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Chicago police no longer believed a hate crime had taken place.
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What are they going to do to stop this hate crime?
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Last month, he was also indicted on federal hate-crime charges.
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" And from 2017: "A Hate Crime, or a Wound from War?
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"Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime," she wrote.
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The attack has been treated by authorities as a hate crime.
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It was the third-straight year that hate crime incidents rose.
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Chicago police initially investigated the case as a possible hate crime.
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"It definitely was a hate crime," she said at the time.
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The break-in is being investigated as a hate crime, Sgt.
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What, did he also write 'fake hate crime' in the memo?
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She has since been arrested and charged with hate crime harassment.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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Our families' encounters with law enforcement taught us that many states do not even have hate crime laws, and federal hate crime laws desperately need to be re-visited in order to be more clearly defined.
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" When asked for comment on the low figures, the police spokesperson said: "Hate crime is an area which experiences underreporting across all monitored strands and it is our belief that misogyny hate crime is no different.
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Fields has been charged with one count of a hate crime resulting in Heyer&aposs death as well as 28 other hate crime charges involving attempts to kill others, according to an indictment released on June 27.
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Hate crime charges Jordan Hill, 23; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
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In the days following the "Unite the Right" rally, Sessions suggested that the car attack could be prosecuted as a hate crime but added that determining whether federal hate crime statutes covered Fields' actions would take time.
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If a state does have a hate crime law or federal law enforcement gets involved in a case, the important thing here is that someone must commit an actual crime to be charged with a hate crime.
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In "Attacks on Muslim Americans Fuel Increase in Hate Crime, F.B.I. Says," Eric Lichtblau writes: The F.B.I. reported Monday that attacks against American Muslims surged last year, driving an overall increase in hate crime against all groups.
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But law enforcement officials were frustrated that he could not be charged with a hate crime; in Utah, the hate crime law can be applied only to misdemeanors, not felony crimes like murder or a violent assault.
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Or take Hawaii: No law enforcement agency there submits hate crime data.
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To start, hate crime statutes vary dramatically in their strength between states.
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Investigators were not currently considering the act a hate crime, Mylett said.
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Afterwards, Eric said he felt the murder was definitely a hate crime.
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There was no evidence of a racially motivated hate crime, they added.
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The FBI is investigating to determine whether it was a hate crime.
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Police aren't saying whether the cemetery vandalism is considered a hate crime.
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In April 2017, Khan launched the Online Hate Crime Hub, BBC reported.
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This incident is not being investigated as a hate crime, officials said.
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Residents are asking police to treat the incident as a hate crime.
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The NYPD is looking into whether the note constitutes a hate crime.
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Both incidents are being investigated by the NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force.
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So what is the government going to do to stop hate crime?
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They say the attack does not appear to be a hate crime.
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The killing of two Indian men has been declared a hate crime.
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Weeks later, police charged him for allegedly staging his own hate crime.
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So if someone just yells a slur, that's not a hate crime.
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The news comes three months after Smollett allegedly staged a hate crime.
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The big picture: Saturday's attack has been characterized as a hate crime.
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No federal hate crime charges have been filed against Matthews so far.
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There is no indication that it was a hate crime, police said.
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If true, this could lead some to disbelieve future hate crime reports.
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St. Lucie County authorities are investigating the possibility of a hate crime.
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Purinton was indicted in June on federal hate crime and other charges.
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Indiana is one of just five states without a hate crime law.
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Proving a hate crime is different than proving other offenses, Cevallos says.
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Response to Orlando: Bieber has not spoken out about the hate crime.
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"What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" Wiley said.
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He said police are sure the killing was not a hate crime.
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The FBI is investigating whether Collins was killed in a hate crime.
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Thompson said deputies will explore whether the arson was a hate crime.
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They asked me to give a talk about the hate-crime book.
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Since then, prosecutors considered whether the hate crime enhancement should be applied.
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Federal investigators are reportedly treating the attack as a potential hate crime.
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This is a hate crime," the friend, Fuat Yucel, told CBC. "Islamophobia?
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Police said there is no indication the stabbing was a hate crime.
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The public and prosecutors often disagree on what constitutes a hate crime.
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"If you're saying stuff like that, it's a hate crime," she says.
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The state's hate crime law was expanded to cover transgender New Yorkers.
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He faces dozens of hate-crime charges that carry the death penalty.
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The police are investigating whether or not this was a hate crime.
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And yet only 27 federal hate-crime defendants were prosecuted that year.
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This is the third consecutive year that hate crime reports have risen.
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There's no retribution for the kids killed in the opening hate crime.
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The police are now looking for suspects, calling it a hate crime.
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Federal prosecutors are also weighing charging the suspect with a hate crime.
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Police previously said that the shooting appeared to be a hate crime.
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He may face hate crime charges in addition to capital murder charges.
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Police said they were investigating that fire as a possible hate crime.
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What happened in El Paso was a massacre and a hate crime.
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The Justice Department has brought several hate crime cases during his tenure.
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The F.B.I. called the attack terrorism as well as a hate crime.
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The hate crime suggests that, even in 2019, they could be wrong.
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A man has been charged with a hate crime in the case.
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"The hate crime elevates the underlying offense," he said of such charges.
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Not everyone can find support in the wake of a hate crime.
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The department received 213 anti-Semitic hate crime complaints as of Dec.
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The German government is alarmed by rising anti-Semitism and hate crime.
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That incident is being investigated as a potential anti-Semitic hate crime.
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But officials said there was no sign it was a hate crime.
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This fits with Sessions' earlier vow to aggressively prosecute hate crime offenders.
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In 2016, Islamophobic hate crime in the US rose by 20 percent.
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Sentences were boosted in about 64 percent of convictions involving anti-LGBT hate crime between April 2017 and March 2018, up from nearly half of cases in the preceding year, according to the CPS's annual Hate Crime Report.
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"Devastating is how I would describe this Smollett story, especially during this legislative season when some states are trying to pass hate crime reform bills," said Brian Levin, a national hate crime expert and the California center's director.
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The National Police Chiefs' Council noted a 57 percent increase in reports of hate crime incidents to the police online hate crime reporting site, True Vision, in the days following the referendum compared to the same period last month.
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The bill aims to close a loophole in current hate crime law, which was spotlighted when a man accused of hanging a noose at a middle school in Anne Arundel County was acquitted of hate crime charges last January.
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Though Dallas police say they're treating Friday's case as a hate crime, Texas is one of 13 states with hate crime laws that cover sexual orientation but not gender identity, according to the nonprofit think tank Movement Advancement Project.
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New Jersey in 22010, which struck down a New Jersey hate crime law.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has urged residents to "stand guard" against hate crime.
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He's the first person to face execution for a federal hate crime conviction.
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The safety pin is a symbol of solidarity with victims of hate crime.
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I ask why we need to re-categorise misognyny as a hate crime.
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Bones says there&aposs no evidence that the attack was a hate crime.
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Of course, none of this matters much if hate crime laws are ineffective.
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Despite this, Winnipeg police won't categorize the attacks as a religious hate crime.
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Police-reported hate crime incidents in Canada number in the thousands every year.
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Related: Attacking a cop in Louisiana will be a hate crime if gov.
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A suspect has now been arrested and charged under federal hate crime laws.
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Texas doesn't have a provision for gender identity in its hate crime laws.
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Texas' hate crime statute protects people's sexual orientation but not their gender identity.
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On Thursday, the group was charged with a hate crime for the attack.
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Matthew Gust pleaded guilty in May to federal hate-crime and arson charges.
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Because I'm Asian-American, others argue it may have been a hate crime.
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The incident was investigated by the FBI and categorized as a hate crime.
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The effects of the deadly hate crime have rippled throughout the country since.
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"We tried to peel back the layers of this hate crime," he said.
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Florida would add gender identity to its hate crime statutes; it's woefully missing.
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"We do not believe it's a hate crime at this time," said Cpl.
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But the FBI has yet to classify the shooting as a hate crime.
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Tijerina's sisters told KFOX14 they believe her killing might be a hate crime.
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Prosecutors have said they are treating the mass shooting as a hate crime.
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They're sweet, but when you learn about another hate crime, they can't relate.
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The FBI is reportedly investigating the assault as a possible a hate crime.
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The incident is currently being investigated by the NYPD's hate crime task force.
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Prosecutors are still considering whether to file additional hate crime charges against Mena.
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He added police have no evidence to indicate this was a hate crime.
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The police statement says there is presently no evidence of a hate crime.
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But even in states that have these laws, hate crime convictions are rare.
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But so far, local law enforcement isn't calling the act a hate crime.
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It's hard to say how this could be evidence of a hate crime.
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The matter is being investigated by Chicago police as a possible hate crime.
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Jackson was charged with murder in the second degree as a hate crime.
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Angela King: I went to prison in a highly publicized hate-crime case.
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Authorities are reportedly working to determine if the assault was a hate crime.
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The FBI is now investigating whether the murder was also a hate crime.
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Now, police say the fire at Hassanen's memorial wasn't a hate crime either.
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The trouble is, many states have no hate crime laws on the books.
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The police said they were treating the assault as a possible hate crime.
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The FBI has conducted major hate crime probes over the past two years.
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Authorities haven't speculated on a motive or suggested it was a hate crime.
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He separately faces 30 federal charges, including 85033 counts of hate crime acts.
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Federal officials are considering hate crime charges against Blackwell, according to the Post.
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Andrew Cuomo said he was directing the state's hate crime unit to investigate.
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The rise of hate crime in our country is a result of it.
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She asked once again why Dixon was not charged with a hate crime.
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TMZ also claims the vandalism is being investigated as a potential hate crime.
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At the time, Mr. Kelly's team likened the campaign to a hate crime.
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In France, advocacy of anti-Israel boycotts can be considered a hate crime.
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The hate crime clearly rattles Arthie, especially when she locks eyes with Yolanda.
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The plea agreement did not include the hate crime component, the spokesman said.
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But still, the incident is not part of the national hate crime record.
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She said her group filed a hate crime incident report with law enforcement.
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The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime, the sheriff said.
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Kedarie's mother, Katrina Johnson, said she considered her son's death a hate crime.
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A hate crime is a hateful crime no matter who may commit it.
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His vertebral artery was severed; police deemed the attack a possible hate crime.
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Analyzing hate crime data to identify trends can take months, Mr. Levin said.
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Police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime with the FBI's assistance.
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Mr. Fields was charged with a hate crime, but not as a terrorist.
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"Any crime of violence, in my view, is a hate crime," state Sen.
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But only the alleged Pittsburgh shooter is being charged with a hate crime.
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Tiffany Harris, 30, was arrested and charged with harassment as a hate crime.
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Local officials described that incident as a hate crime against the Jewish community.
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Sometimes, friends or family — or strangers — step in to help hate crime victims.
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Anti-Semitic incidents are the most common hate crime reported in the city.
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The agency has opened a hate crime investigation, it said in a statement.
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Neeson will now be known as an actor who contemplated a hate crime.
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Emanuel and Johnson still say the whole hate crime claim was a hoax.
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Police said they were treating the report as a possible hate crime. Jan.
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"There is no question that this is a hate crime," Mr. Fulop said.
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Police are pursuing possible hate crime charges in the case, according to Johnson.
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Chicago police said they are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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The police said they were investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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"There is no indication of a hate crime," Deputy Commissioner Frank Dwyer said.
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An actor who said he was the victim of a bizarre hate crime.
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The latter qualifies as a hate crime under the Church Arson Prevention Act.
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A man who allegedly attacked a Mexican American father and son at a Utah tire shop while shouting "I hate Mexicans" is now facing federal hate crime charges after local prosecutors were unable to bring hate crime charges under state law.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE's (D-Calif.) presidential bid.
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Though Dallas police have said they're treating Friday's case as a hate crime, Texas is one of 13 states with hate crime laws that cover sexual orientation but not gender identity, according to the non-profit think tank Movement Advancement Project.
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Yet her death wasn't included in the FBI's 2017 hate crime report released Tuesday.
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The homeless are not a protected class under New Mexico&aposs hate crime statute.
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Thomas said police were investigating the shooting as a possible hate crime, KIRO reported.
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Illinois is one of 45 states plus Washington D.C. that have hate crime statutes.
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The New York City Police Department are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.
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However, Bones said there was no evidence that the attack constituted a hate crime.
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The alleged shooter, Adam Purinton, is now facing hate crime charges in federal court.
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The state charges allege that the synagogue shooting was perpetrated as a hate crime.
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"If this was a hate crime, shame on you," she said, breaking into tears.
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The FBI said late Sunday that the slayings appear to be a hate crime.
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It remains to be seen if the attack will be designated a hate crime.
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Authorities have arrested the suspect and are investigating the shooting as a hate crime.
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Sukhwinder and the rest of the family are convinced it was a hate crime.
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It's unclear for now if Purinton will be charged with a federal hate crime.
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"It basically leaves us without any kind of hate crime statutory framework," Gill said.
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Chicago police are investigating a possible hate crime attack against Empire star Jussie Smollett.
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The court also denied Kesha's claims that Dr. Luke's abuse constituted a hate crime.
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Police were not said to be investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.
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Even burning down a refugee centre may count as a hate crime, not terrorism.
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The "Empire" actor was accused of staging a hate crime against himself in Chicago.
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On Wednesday, he switched his plea to "guilty" for all 29 hate crime charges.
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Federal authorities are "seriously considering" bringing hate crime charges in the case, he said.
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Police in Miami-Dade County have declined to call the shooting a hate crime.
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The news outlet reported the incident is being reviewed as a possible hate crime.
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The Baltimore police statement did not describe the attack as a possible hate crime.
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Her charges are subject to increased penalties under the state&aposs hate-crime law.
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Officials have not said whether they are treating the incident as a hate crime.
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"In a hate crime, the victim is targeted because of his characteristics," Stacy said.
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Presumably, that investigation will focus on a possible violation of federal hate crime laws.
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They affirmed for us what we already believed, that this was a hate crime.
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Authorities in Fairfax County said there's no evidence the killing was a hate crime.
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The US attorney's office for the Southern District of Mississippi prosecuted the hate crime.
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One line of investigation was that the attack was a hate crime, they said.
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Father: 'This is a hate crime' Nabra's death has shaken the local Muslim community.
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They may call it a hate crime, but they struggle to call it terrorism.
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Similar hate-crime statistics have increased in the U.K. and several other western countries.
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The gunman, Dylan Roof, is the first federal hate crime defendant sentenced to death.
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He also faces separate federal hate-crime charges, which carry a potential death sentence.
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Su pleaded not guilty, and, to Shamuil's disappointment, Chun upheld the hate-crime charges.
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Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, CBS Los Angeles reported.
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He was additionally charged with two counts of a felony hate crime on Thursday.
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It characterizes the defacement as a "suspected hate crime" motivated by "anti-political" bias.
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Crain is facing hate crime charges, as well as charges for theft and assault.
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I don't believe the attorney general has used the phrase "hate crime" yet here.
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According to FBI statistics, no hate crime murders were reported in Oregon last year.
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" Police said Tuesday that they were investigating the case as a "possible hate crime.
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And the city has recorded rising hate crime reports since the 2016 election season.
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As of Monday morning, the murder had not been classified as a hate crime.
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Fields also faces separate federal hate-crime charges, which carry a potential death sentence.
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Authorities had long said they were investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
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Many called attention to hate crimes (and anti-hate crime vigils) local to Brooklyn.
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" The judge ended with this ... "Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime.
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"It moves away from the real intent of the hate crime statute," she said.
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Roof also faces federal hate-crime charges that could also carry a death sentence.
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"I have enough there to say it's a hate crime," the police chief said.
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Gore told reporters that authorities were investigating Saturday's attack as a potential hate crime.
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Police said they're investigating the incident as attempted arson and a possible hate crime.
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The Trump administration has emphasized hate-crime enforcement as a focus for the division.
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James Fields faces murder and hate crime charges in forthcoming trials in that incident.
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The first big question is whether your state actually has a hate crime law.
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Jussie Smollett has been indicted on 16 counts for allegedly staging a hate crime.
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The N.Y.P.D. will find the perpetrators of this hate crime and hold them accountable.
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Evidence from authorities indicates that the shooting could be prosecuted as a hate crime.
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Now being investigated as a possible hate crime, this tragedy has changed us all.
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In fact, King based the death of Adrian on a real-life hate crime.
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Our hate crime investigation has concluded and charges have been filed in this case.
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Yes. Did local and national news organizations poke holes in his "hate crime" account?
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Plank was more concerned about the downstream effects of a potential hate-crime hoax.
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In addition to the hate crime, she was charged with public intoxication and shoplifting.
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He is charged with malicious harassment, hate crime and malicious mischief, according to NBC.
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A hate crime is committed against a Muslim family and a daughter is killed.
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The hate crime counts are juvenile felonies and the disorderly charge is a misdemeanor.
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Bowers could face the death penalty if he is convicted of a hate crime.
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The hate crime charges would have added an additional 20 years to his sentence.
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Smollett reported the attack to police who investigated it as a possible hate crime.
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Chief Bones said there was no evidence that the attack was a hate crime.
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In fact, the defense could be evidence of a hate crime, according to Kennedy.
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A few states considered but abandoned plans for hate crime and domestic abuse registries.
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"I don't think that perpetrators think about whether they're going to commit a hate crime, look to see whether there's a law that can be punished, and then don't commit the hate crime when they learn it could be punished," Bell said.
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In Kentucky, where the Kroger shooting occurred, prosecutors cannot charge a murder as a hate crime; only after conviction, at the time of sentencing, can a judge label a homicide a hate crime, potentially making the killer ineligible for probation or parole.
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Nabra Hassanen was beaten with a bat after a road rage accident, and while it is not officially classified a hate crime, thousands have signed a petition calling on state and federal officials to investigate the youth's death as a hate crime.
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After a secondary review, and regardless of whether any hate crime charges are brought, the relevant agency may then report the incident as a hate crime through the Uniform Crime Reporting, or UCR, system, which the FBI uses to publish its annual report.
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Mark Hamilton, an assistant chief constable who leads hate crime policy for the National Police Chiefs' Council, said in an interview that if a court decides Mr. Jozwik's killing was a hate crime, it will be the most serious attack since the referendum.
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The FBI's annual Hate Crime Statistics report released this week showed that out of the 4,131 hate crime incidents in 2017 involving race or ethnicity, 2,013 were fueled by anti-black or African-American bias, up 16 percent from 1,739 in 2016.
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Some officials say the attack was a hate crime While New Jersey investigators say they don't yet know why the shooters attacked the store, some officials there and in neighboring New York City have said they think the attack was a hate crime.
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Authorities have charged Fields with one count of a hate crime act resulting in death, 28 counts of hate crime acts causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill, and one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity.
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I was totally abandoned by my family after my hate crime attack back in January.
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I also spoke to Mira Gustmajdzimski, who's been the victim of a hate crime herself.
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People with disabilities are, of course, protected under both federal and Illinois hate crime legislation.
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The Hoosier State is one of only five in America without a hate crime law.
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Smollett, the former "Empire" actor, said he was the victim of a white hate crime.
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He was accused later of staging the hate crime and filing a false police report.
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Three additional states — Arkansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming— don't have any hate crime laws whatsoever.
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At the moment, there's not enough information to label Booker's murder as a hate crime.
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Which is to say she may have staged the hate crime to avoid being punished.
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This is a tolerant community, reflected by no incidents of hate crime reported so far.
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On January 28, Jussie Smollett was attacked in what has been labeled a hate crime.
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So I posed a question to experts: Do hate crime laws actually deter hateful acts?
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Fields is eligible for the death penalty if convicted of separate federal hate crime charges.
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He is the first person to get the death penalty for a federal hate crime.
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Hate crimes Hate crime incidents in the US neared 6,000 in both 2013 and 2015.
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Eckert told WDSU that there was nothing to indicate the stabbing was a hate crime.
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Jussie Smollett's family is standing with him in the wake of his alleged hate crime.
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Only eighteen states plus Washington D.C. have hate crime laws that specifically protect trans people.
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Her creepy landlord Ace commits a hate crime, and Joy witnesses a part of it.
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"This is a hate crime, plain and simple," CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said.
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A white supremacist was charged with a hate crime for killing Charlottesville protester Heather Heyer.
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"This report did not meet the level of hate crime," Hollywood Police spokesperson Lata said.
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A black principal, four white teens, and the 'senior prank' that became a hate crime.
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Once they have the cause, it can be determined whether it was a hate crime.
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Investigators have been reviewing the footage to determine whether the assault was a hate crime.
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Our hate crime laws should reflect this painful reality -- not a mythical war on cops.
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Of 16,149 participating law enforcement agencies, 2,040 of them reported hate crime incidents that year.
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"Everybody is very upset," Uddin said, adding that he believes it was a hate crime.
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On Tuesday, TMZ reported that the actor was the victim of an apparent hate crime.
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Fields could still get the death penalty in a federal trial on hate crime charges.
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Locals officials often turn to the Department of Justice to build a hate crime case.
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Do hate crime laws even have a real impact on levels of bigotry in America?
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The hate crime enhancement here just ensures the life sentence he would have gotten anyway.
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Police said earlier this week they were treating the case as a possible hate crime.
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James Fields, 22, has already been sentenced on federal hate crime charges for the Aug.
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There are legal distinctions to calling an act of violence a hate crime or terrorism.
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Far too many experience hate crime, discrimination and abuse in their day-to-day lives.
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In a Trump era of growing hate crime rates, that's a spectacularly dangerous programming decision.
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The FBI is investigating the Kansas shooting of two Indian immigrants as a hate crime.
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North Brookfield Police Chief Mark Smith says he views the altercation as a hate crime.
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During that same time period, federal prosecutors turned down 87 percent of hate crime cases.
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National hate crime data is self-reported to the FBI and lags a year behind.
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"It's terrible that Liam Neeson thought about committing a hate crime," comedian Hari Kondabolu tweeted.
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Activists also said the incident showed the need for a hate crime law in Ireland.
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They voted against expanding federal hate crime statutes to include sexual orientation, gender and disability.
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In April, North Yorkshire police said it would add misogyny to its hate crime policy.
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The FBI data says one transgender person was murdered in a hate crime in 2015.
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The station noted that the charge of intimidation is considered a hate crime in Oregon.
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Arthur Brooks: It's surreal: a hate crime and terrorism intersecting in one ghastly, pointless tragedy.
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"What a terrible, dastardly, cowardly act was committed," Dayton said, calling it a hate crime.
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In some states, including Virginia and Oregon, state UCR programs publish annual hate crime statistics.
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Hate-crime violence has hit a 16-year high, according to a new F.B.I. report.
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Alsobrooks said Urbanski faces an additional 20-year term if convicted of a hate crime.
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Louisiana changed its hate-crime law to protect a new group: law enforcement officers. Gov.
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Only 10 percent of state and local law enforcement agencies report any hate crime prosecutions.
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A total of 7,175 hate crime incidents were reported last year by law enforcement agencies.
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The FBI publishes its hate crime statistics based on the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.
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In his 2014 speech, FBI director Comey addressed the flaws with the hate crime statistics.
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A second 16-year-old charged with possession of cannabis and an aggravated hate crime.
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A 15-year-old charged with handling stolen goods and committing an aggravated hate crime.
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Authorities haven't speculated as to Solis' motive or suggested that it was a hate crime.
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He added that the attack had not met the bar for a hate crime charge.
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"Many criminologists concur that the homeless should be covered by hate crime legislation," Levin said.
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In other words, behind every hate crime is a message: You are not welcome here.
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As hate crime reports have spiked across the country following the election, New York Gov.
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Mr. Bush is white and the case is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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He was convicted of murder and has pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crime charges.
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Smith was arrested on misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges in addition to the hate crime charges.
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Both she and her father were the victims of hate crime attacks, Ms. Malik said.
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Even without a hate crime charge, Mr. Bush could face the death penalty if convicted.
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Data shows that hate crime victims often do not trust that reporting will help them.
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Between June 25 and 29, Miller found 2,413 reports of hate crime on the platform.
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And yet her death was not initially reported as a hate crime to the FBI.
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But what constitutes a hate crime, and how does the legal system treat combat veterans?
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The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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On Tuesday Hart posted on social media about the alleged hate crime committed against Smollett.
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We don't know if the vandalism at Chesed Shel Emeth was technically a hate crime.
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But as the police investigation unfolded, Smollett went from hate crime victim to primary suspect.
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The Jersey City incident was a "violent, anti-Semitic hate crime," Mr. de Blasio said.
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Investigations that lead to a hate crime would need to be prosecuted under federal law.
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The incidents are being investigated by the NYPD's hate crime task force, according to police.
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"Some people are assuming that this is a hate crime," a sheriff's office spokesman, Capt.
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A man was arrested and charged with a hate crime in connection with the incident.
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The FBI is investigating the mass shooting as domestic terrorism and a possible hate crime.
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Tiffany Harris, was arrested in connection with that case, on a hate-crime harassment charge.
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No person should falsely report a hate crime, or any other kind of crime, ever.
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It felt as if every day there was a report of a new hate crime.
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In June, Mr. Purinton was indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime charges.
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So while the killer pleaded guilty this week, it was not to a hate crime.
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And for the remaining 45 states, the strength of the hate crime law protections varies.
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A hate crime is really trying to take seriously our identities and who we are.
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It doesn't push them on the other side of what a hate crime really is.
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James Alex Fields faces murder and hate crime charges in forthcoming trials in that incident.
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J.), Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.) and Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottGOP casts Sanders as 2020 boogeyman Tim Scott: Sanders would be toughest challenger for Trump House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (R-S.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.) and Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerDemocrats' Obama-to-Sanders shift on charter schooling This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime Juan Williams: Black votes matter MORE (D-N.
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There is still much discovery to be done and if it is determined that this was a hate crime, we will cry not only for our son, but for LGBTQ people everywhere that live in fear or who have been victims of hate crime.
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That is, of course, not to say that Hassanen's death should be prosecuted as a hate crime because of its effect on the Muslim community (the ethics of hate crime prosecution are already often murky since they're contingent on a suspect's state of mind).
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He was charged with 28 counts of hate crime acts causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill, one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Heyer, and one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity.
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James Polite, 26, faces multiple charges, including fourth-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime and second-degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime in connection with anti-Semitic remarks found at the temple and fires set at several locations in Brooklyn hours later.
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"If murder isn't a first-degree hate crime, then that's part of the law needing reform," said Randy Blazak, who leads the Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crime and has spent the last 30 years studying hate groups in a state that is 87 percent white.
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Police in Framingham, Massachusetts, are investigating a possible hate crime after the girl found two letters.
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One way to find the far-right kind is to look for spikes in hate crime.
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State representative Gregory Porter is among the leading advocates of a hate crime law in Indianapolis.
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There's no law [in Indiana] to say that was a hate crime, and that's very disturbing.
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Arizona does not have a separate "hate crime" charge, according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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BRUCE: We -- perhaps it&aposs about adding that kind of action as an additional hate crime.
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McLean has been hit with numerous hate crime and felony charges stemming from these alleged incidents.
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Mark Dayton called a "hate crime" and "an act of terrorism" in a press conference Sunday.
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The criminologist, who specializees in gender-based hate crime, helped Nottinghamshire police to devise their approach.
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Boise Police Chief William Bones says evidence doesn&apost suggest the attack was a hate crime.
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Until he commits an actual crime, his act can't be additionally prosecuted as a hate crime.
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After Empire star Jussie Smollett reported he'd been beaten in a hate crime at 2 a.
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The Internet would explode if Trump accurately and compassionately responded to every hate crime in America.
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Jussie Smollett has pleaded not guilty to lying to police about being a hate crime victim.
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You can report hate crime to the police on 101 or using the True Vision website.
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"If there is a hate crime that gets debunked I report on it," Soave told me.
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Her brutal death shook the area's Nubian Egyptian community, and some called it a hate crime.
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Administrators deemed the hanging doll "racially insensitive" but did not classify it as a hate crime.
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A restaurant in Kansas was burned to the ground in what may be a hate crime.
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But, even more disconcerting is that it is now being investigated as a potential hate crime.
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Obama on Sunday denounced the killings as both an act of terror and a hate crime.
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There's likewise little precedent for making an occupation a protected class under a hate crime statute.
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Those who protest at a police station could be charged with a hate crime and trespass.
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All murder and attempted murder charges come with a hate-crime special circumstance and gun allegations.
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All murder and attempted murder charges come with a hate crime special circumstance and gun allegations.
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The DA previously said authorities are still weighing whether to charge Woodward with a hate crime.
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Unlike some states, Ohio's hate crime laws currently do not include sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Such bills obscure the intention of hate crime laws and the conditions actually facing police officers.
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Research shows that sexual orientation consistently ranks as the third-highest motivator for hate crime incidents.
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The gunman was charged with several new hate crime counts this year by the Justice Department.
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Discerning whether hate crime laws are actually effective against bigotry depends on how you define success.
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The federal hate crime law and repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" seem safe as well.
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If it's a hate crime, that gets bumped up to life without the possibility of parole.
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For Molinari and the Hate Crime Task Force, each one is important, no matter its severity.
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Police reports of hate crime have gone up by more than 42% from June 16-30.
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The FBI says a crime becomes a hate crime when there's an added element of bias.
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Labeling something a "hate crime" can make the law come down much harder on a defendant.
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Hate crime traditionally refers to incidents where the victim is targeted because of their personal characteristics.
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The reason a hate crime is significant ... it ups the stakes in damages they can collect.
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In January, Roof was convicted in federal court on hate crime charges and sentenced to death.
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"What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" Wiley, the university police chief, said.
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Days later, Sessions said the case against Fields could also be prosecuted as a hate crime.
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Man who triggered my seizure just been charged by Dallas DA with felony assault/ hate crime.
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Two other men were injured, and the FBI is investigating the incident as a hate crime.
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The group committed a hate crime by defacing the Ottawa mosque with violent neo-Nazi posters.
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He has been indicted on 44 federal counts related to the attack, including hate crime charges.
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"I've been the victim of hate crime because of my ethnicity and my faith," he said.
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The vandalism is being considered as institutional vandalism and possibly as a hate crime, White said.
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He will be tried again on federal hate crime charges, according to the New York Times.
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Additionally, the number of hate crime incidences against transgender people increased almost 34 percent from 2017.
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"It is a hate crime," Malika Harris, Wilson's 25-year-old sister told CNN on Thursday.
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Trybus could face up to five years in prison for each of the hate crime charges.
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The agency found an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations per year from 2004 to 2015.
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Regardless of the year, however, the hate crime count is underreported to the FBI, explained Stacy.
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In 2012, the bureau conducted a hate crime survey that measured hate crimes perceived by victims.
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At the news conference, Chief Wilson said the episode was being investigated as a hate crime.
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On Wednesday, Cook County Commissioner Jesús "Chuy" García called for elevated hate crime charges against Trybus.
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The hate crime distinction carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Under existing UK laws, so-called "protected characteristics" are currently covered by anti-hate-crime legislation.
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He said the restaurant was targeted because of his ethnicity, so hate crime charges are fitting.
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It took months for Ms. Halimi's murder to be categorized as an anti-Jewish hate crime.
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But several commenters strongly argued against immigration laws and the value in hate crime penalty enhancements.
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"If the hate crime definition was violated, we will certainly vet those things out," Browning said.
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Others bemoaned the horrible impact the case would have on other hate crime victims being believed.
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In the aftermath of 9/11, their business, Aladdin Donuts, was torched in a hate crime.
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Mr. Smollett was accused of faking a hate crime attack in January, but charges were dropped.
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FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES The case also has a "nexus to a potential hate crime," he said.
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Four other people were injured in the attack, which federal prosecutors say was a hate crime.
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Wyoming County prosecuting attorney Michael Cochrane said the incident could be classified as a hate crime.
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Roof, 22, could face the death penalty on state murder charges and federal hate crime charges.
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If the judge finds a hate crime designation is appropriate, it doesn't add any additional time.
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"We don't have anything that would show that it's a hate crime right now," he said.
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"That's the feel of the community, that this is really a hate crime," Ms. Taylor said.
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An estimated 60% of those hate crime victimizations were not reported to police, the data shows.
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"What we saw yesterday was a premeditated, violent, anti-Semitic hate crime," Mr. de Blasio said.
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The Minnesota Council on American-Islamic Relations called on police to launch the hate crime investigation.
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The journal entries The journals found in the suspect's home led to the hate crime charges.
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"My sentiment is that it should be viewed as a hate crime," Fulop said Wednesday afternoon.
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But for now, at this point in our investigation, we're treating it as a hate crime.
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Griffen, Olson and White want the chopping down of the tree investigated as a hate crime.
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Terrorism targeted many innocent people,and a hate crime was committed in a Charleston church steeple.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the actor falsely reported a hate crime to advance his acting career.
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Out of 3.3 million Muslims, there were 301 hate crime offenses and 257 incidents in 2015.
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Smollett was accused of faking a hate crime before charges against him were dropped last week.
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The total number of hate crime incidents amounted to a nearly 5 percent rise from 2015.
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The FBI declined to pursue a federal hate crime case against Urbanski, citing lack of evidence.
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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop labeled the incident a hate crime just hours after the attack.
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The attack was termed a "hate crime" in Times stories, to the consternation of several readers.
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The man, Ian Grillot, 24, was shot while intervening in a hate crime in Olathe, Kan.
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"I hope it's not a hate crime, because if it is, it's really scary," he said.
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"We have to do a better job of reporting hate crime," Bro told the committee Wednesday.
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Despite the headlines that have dominated the news cycle since, fake hate crime reports are uncommon.
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Washington police are investigating a protest outside the home of Carlson as a possible hate crime.
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Louisiana's hate crime bill, before this Blue Lives Matter piece, was actually a pretty good bill.
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The official noted that the Justice Department has brought multiple hate crime cases during the Trump administration, including the hate crime charges recently brought against Adam Purinton in Olathe, Kansas, who opened fire on two Indian nationals and a bystander who attempted to intervene, the official said.
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The indictment charges Fields with 28 counts of hate crime acts causing bodily injury and involving an attempt to kill, one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Heather Heyer, 32, and one count of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity.
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Mr. Fields, 21, was charged in the Western District of Virginia with one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Ms. Heyer, as well as dozens of other counts of hate crime acts, which each carry a possible sentence of life in prison.
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Because the gunman Omar Mateen targeted LGBT citizens, the event doubled as an anti-gay hate crime.
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Those four teenagers are also serving between seven and 163 years in prison for the hate crime.
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Hate crime law A Mississippi man pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend because she was transgender.
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And they say Sessions offers little hope in his prosecution of Johnson's murder as a hate crime.
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Still others who falsely cry "hate crime" really are suffering harassment—but embellish so officials will listen.
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Trump's election has led to protests across the country, as well as a spike in hate crime.
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Prosecutors had previously said there were no grounds to charge Laszlo with a racially motivated hate crime.
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Boise Police Chief William Bones said the evidence does not suggest the attack was a hate crime.
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Police have said there is no evidence to suggest the attack was committed as a hate crime.
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Jordan Hill, 20, pleaded guilty to a hate crime and was sentenced to eight years in prison.
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Chicago police said from the outset that they were treating the incident as a possible hate crime.
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The criminal complaint, filed on Monday, also alleges the synagogue shooting was perpetrated as a hate crime.
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Authorities say the mass shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and act of domestic terrorism.
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The Empire actor reported an attack to Chicago police that's being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Violent, xenophobic and hate crime all nearly doubled, compared with the same preliminary data set from 2014.
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You should condemn this not only as a hate crime, but as a white supremacist terrorist attack.
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Both men want justice ... as in, throw the book at the monsters who committed the hate crime.
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Hate crime laws hold perpetrators of violence responsible, and equip police to serve and protect vulnerable communities.
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The law's critics however, see applying protections to law enforcement specifically under 'hate crime' statutes as counterproductive.
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And he said MAGA country did it -- MAGA country ... That's a hate crime and it's a scam.
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The Kentucky supermarket shooting that left two black people dead is being investigated as a hate crime.
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In May, the governor signed a new law that makes assaulting a police officer a hate crime.
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"We have no indication to call it a hate crime or any kind of terrorism act," Sgt.
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Police said it didn't appear that the explosion was linked to terrorism or was a hate crime.
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Most importantly, the 49-year-old's slaying spurred Texas and Congress to push through hate crime legislation.
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The "Empire" actor faced charges after police said he staged a hate crime against himself in Chicago.
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On Friday afternoon, a federal prosecutor said the shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Americans support hate crime legislation that adds long prison sentences to crimes that are already heavily punished.
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These incidents seem to be part of a general rise in hate crime since the May bombing.
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The Brooklyn District Attorney's office described the incident as a hate crime during the arraignment last week.
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There were a total of 353 hate crime complaints in 2018, according to data from the NYPD.
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If investigators suspect the killings were racially motivated, Bush could also be charged for a hate crime.
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Law enforcement authorities have not said whether they are investigating the mosque explosion as a hate crime.
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So is America facing a growing hate crime epidemic, fueled by Trump's campaign for president and election?
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At the time, he said it was "too early to tell" if hate-crime charges were warranted.
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Owens and his family issued a statement after authorities concluded the incident was not a hate crime.
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At the same time, a slaying at another campus is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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She said authorities don't have enough evidence at this point to charge Urbanski with a hate crime.
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"The number one issue for the (LGBT+) community is the need for hate crime legislation," Fagan said.
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Before Wednesday in this separate federal prosecution, Fields had pleaded not guilty to 30 hate crime charges.
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He pleaded guilty in May to federal hate crime and firearm charges to avoid the death penalty.
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Research shows it is far more likely that hate crime statistics are considerably lower because of underreporting.
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A hate crime enhancement was added because it appears that Rivello targeted Eichenwald because he is Jewish.
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The court boosted his sentence from nine months to a year to reflect the hate crime element.
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" The Chicago Police Department said Tuesday that it was investigating the attack as a "possible hate crime.
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The Fairfax Police Department tweeted Monday morning that it's not investigating the murder as a hate crime.
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A hate crime in a place seen as a safe haven by gays, as many Democrats said?
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The New York Police Department's Hate Crime Task Force made the arrest on Wednesday, ABC News reported.
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The racial slur was a casual expression among youth, she said, not evidence of a hate crime.
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The accused perpetrator has been charged with 29 federal counts, including the violation of hate crime laws.
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TV producer Ryan Murphy called for stricter hate-crime laws during his Emmy acceptance speech Monday night.
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The FBI announced in February that it would be investigating the fire as a possible hate crime.
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The U.S. Justice Department was pressing its own federal investigation of the incident as a hate crime.
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Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, recently proposed a law that would prevent hate crime offenders from buying guns.
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According to the map, 17 states have hate crime laws that cover sexual orientation and gender identity.
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South Carolina does not have hate crime laws, so Roof couldn't be charged locally for hate crimes.
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The vast majority of participating jurisdictions -- 88.4% -- said not a single hate crime occurred in their cities.
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In the El Paso case, authorities are weighing hate-crime charges that could carry the death penalty.
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The FBI is investigating the El Paso attack as a domestic terrorism incident and possible hate crime.
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Once brought to court, more than four in five hate crime prosecutions result in conviction in Britain.
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The hashtag #JusticeForElijah trended on Twitter on Monday as many condemned the attack as a hate crime.
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The New York Police Department's hate crime task force is looking into both incidents, the network noted.
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Until they do, hate crime will put the security and unity of the entire population at risk.
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Police say Jussie remains cooperative and they are treating him as the victim of a hate crime.
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"Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime," Kornreich wrote in her denial of Kesha's appeal.
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G.B.T. hate crime until further evidence suggested the shooter had no idea it was a gay club.
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A collective response to Russia, a brutal hate crime in France and a mysterious train in Beijing.
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Fields, 21, is facing state murder charges plus charges of malicious wounding, and federal hate crime charges.
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Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crime charges to avoid the death penalty.
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The released affidavit comes as federal investigators are still considering filing hate crime charges against the shooter.
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Jussie and his lawyer have vehemently denied the attack was staged, maintaining this was a hate crime.
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A suspect was quickly caught, but under Utah law he cannot be charged with a hate crime.
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That is the number of confirmed hate crime incidents in New York City this year through Nov.
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The man, Ivan Nieves, 57, was charged with vandalism and disorderly conduct but not any hate crime.
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Deputy Hensley said there was no evidence that her house had been targeted in a hate crime.
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In the meantime, calls continue to grow for hate-crime charges to be filed in their deaths.
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Black people accounted for nearly half of hate crime victims last year, according to the F.B.I. report.
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He faces charges of criminal mischief, which the police classified as a hate crime, and making graffiti.
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Currently, federal law bars only those convicted of more serious hate crime felony offenses from having guns.
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But it was also, a bit more specifically, a brutal example of an anti-Latino hate crime.
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The police may fall back on calling the incident a hate crime, which is easier to prove.
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With the rope and Smollett's sweater in their custody, authorities began to investigate a possible hate crime.
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Chicago police investigated the case as a hate crime but later said the actor orchestrated the incident.
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Law enforcement announced that they were treating the incident as a possible hate crime, according to People.
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He also reportedly pleaded not guilty to 10 hate crime charges in federal court on Jan. 13.
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" Smollett's family also issued a statement, condemning the attack, calling it a "racial and homophobic hate crime.
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He was charged with two counts of a felony hate crime and one count of disorderly conduct.
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Its 2011 display, which depicted gay and lesbian couples, was vandalized and investigated as a hate crime.
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The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed historic legislation that would classify lynching as a federal hate crime.
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Warren's gun control proposal includes a ban on gun ownership for anyone convicted of a hate crime.
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"We do not have enough evidence to say conclusively whether this is a hate crime," she said.
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During the sentencing hearing Friday, Superior Court Justice Francois Huot described the attack as a hate crime.
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Federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against the man accused of storming the synagogue and killing 11.
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But mayors of Jersey City and New York City believe it should be considered a hate crime.
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It also withdrew a hate crime enhancement that could have added up to three years, Dunnick said.
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And five states -- Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Wyoming -- don't have hate-crime laws at all.
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A neighbor was charged with three counts of murder but not a hate crime -- sparking further outrage.
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"I've said that it was a hate crime since the day this all happened," Katrina Johnson said.
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State and local police forces are also not required to relay hate crime data to the FBI.
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In the years since Mr. Byrd's death, both state and federal hate crime laws bear his name.
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For weeks, the investigators — who have treated the case as a possible hate crime — had few leads.
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The Nazi items were irrelevant, Young's lawyers said, since the case didn't center on a hate crime.
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"They felt that being labeled a 'hate crime victim' would be a positive result," Ms. Deitle said.
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The law provides stringent maximum penalties, including life imprisonment, if someone is killed during a hate crime.
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In order to improve the data collected under the Hate Crime Statistics Act and published in the FBI's annual report, Congress should pass legislation that provides law enforcement with incentives for hate crime reporting and ties federal funding for state or local agencies to the provision of accurate data.
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In addition to the hate crimes charges, Browning said federal officials are considering additional federal hate crime and arson charges against Matthews, according to the AP. Louisiana hate crime law applies to incidents based on race, age, gender, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry.
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The charges included one count of a hate crime act that resulted in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and 28 counts of hate crime acts that caused bodily injury and involved an attempt to kill other people in the crowd, the Department of Justice said.
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"What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in February.
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He is the first federal hate-crime defendant to be sentenced to death, a Justice Department spokesman said.
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Ryan said she filed a police report who have "recorded it as a hate crime," Sky News reported.
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Hate crime charges under consideration The victim knew at least one of his accused attackers from school, Cmdr.
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In a statement, spokesman Rajdeep Singh said it's important the Kent shooting be investigated as a hate crime.
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Activists and civil rights groups have used the hashtag #JusticeForElijah to demand hate crime charges against Adams. Sen.
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So it's no surprise that hate crime experts were reluctant to talk to me for this piece. Why?
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Smollett's family branded the incident a racial and homophobic hate crime, and others on social media followed suit.
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Roof, who is white, is the first person to get the death penalty for a federal hate crime.
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No children were killed in the shooting, which is being investigated as a hate crime, authorities have said.
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Jussie Smollett is opening up about being violently attacked in Chicago in an apparent hate crime last month.
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The suspects face hate crime, kidnapping, unlawful restraint and battery charges in their alleged role in the attack.
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In August, six teenagers were arrested on suspicion of killing a Polish man in a suspected hate crime.
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Courtier's attorney, Kami White of the Metropolitan Public Defender Services, declined to comment on the hate crime charges.
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Improved hate crime data would help curb hate violence because many continue to deny its existence and severity.
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North Brookfield Police Chief Mark Smith tells the station he considers the confrontation reported Tuesday a hate crime.
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"If we learn that it's a hate crime, of course, we'll pursue the charges of that," he said.
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"There's no indication that that is a terrorist act, no indication that it's a hate crime," she said.
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Many in the community were baffled or even enraged by authorities' hesitation to call it a hate crime.
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The 21-year-old accused of setting fire to three black Louisiana churches now faces hate crime charges.
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It was investigated as a hate crime and that police say he hurled anti-LGBTQ slurs at her.
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Fields was indicted in June on 30 counts, including a hate crime act that resulted in Heyer's death.
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The FBI's latest hate-crime report showed that, in 2017, anti-Sikh hate crimes were on the rise.
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All 21 charges the men collectively face have been augmented to take into consideration DC's hate crime laws.
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Ally Steinfeld was brutally killed in September, though officials did not investigate her death as a hate crime.
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Obviously a hate crime, I think, in my view, against immigrants from this young man, just my view.
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Kuchibhotla was murdered this week in a high-profile incident that may lead to federal hate crime charges.
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But it is unclear whether this tally is driven by increased awareness of hate crime at the time.
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" Police said they were treating the case as a possible hate crime "given the severity of the allegations.
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Officials say the incident is being investigated as a homicide but not as a hate crime, PEOPLE confirms.
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Smollett's family branded the incident a racial and homophobic hate crime, and others on social media followed suit.
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He also declined comment about a motive for the shooting or whether authorities were considering hate crime charges.
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Just 19 of Indiana's 535 police and sheriff's departments reported a hate crime to state authorities in 2016.
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The New Haven Police Department is among those who have filed no hate crime reports in recent years.
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The Kent police department is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, according to Chief Ken Thomas.
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A hate crime is any criminal offense, like murder, assault or vandalism, with the added element of bias.
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" "In addition to great incompetence and corruption, The Smollett case in Chicago is also about a Hate Crime.
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"For someone that has experienced a hate crime, that is really an attack on their identity," she said.
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Authorities have said they are investigating the attack as a hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
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The hate crime charges were filed in connection with the shootings of Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, who survived.
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"Whether or not it's a hate crime is one of those angles that will be considered," she said.
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Two Maryland teenagers have been charged with a hate crime for lighting a President Trump sign on fire.
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Lynch pledged that the Justice Department and other agencies would more strictly enforce hate crime laws going forward.
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According to The Guardian, Police Scotland reported 71 charges relating to Islamophobic hate crime from 2014 to 2015.
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In other words, he said, calling out a hate crime or racism by name can initiate public discussions.
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That while it is a terrorist attack, it is also a hate crime directed to the LGBT community.
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In 2017, of the 16,149 police departments that participate in hate crime reporting, only 2,040 reported hate crimes.
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"(The hate crime increase) can be related to an increase in actual incidents," she said, but also awareness.
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If Bowers is convicted of the hate crime charges he may receive the death penalty, according to CNN.
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It was also a hate crime, since it was directed at one community (or two — Latino and L.G.B.T.).
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How L.G.B.T. people are frequent targets of hate crime, and a closer look at some of the victims.
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Hate crime laws are meant to protect historically oppressed minority groups such as people of color and women.
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The BBC has reported that incidents of hate crime have gone up by 500 percent since the vote.
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Adam Purinton pleaded guilty to state murder charges and faces additional federal hate crime charges in federal court.
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Nucera is the only officer charged with deprivation of rights and hate crime assault, according to the DOJ.
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"This was absolutely a hate crime," said Bazlur Rahman, 49, speaking near the two-story brown clapboard mosque.
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For example, a murder is labeled a hate crime if the victim was killed because he was gay.
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Since the data collection began, the FBI has published hate crime statistics from 2150 to, most recently, 212012.
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The case caused a stir, but it wasn't clear whether Shepard's attack was an anti-gay hate crime.
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In 2015, the hate crime total increased by 356 single bias incidents, and anti-Muslim incidents surged again.
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It's being investigated as a hate crime and act of domestic terrorism fueled by racist, anti-immigrant sentiments.
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The prosecutor's office said it will present evidence that the murder was a hate crime against transgender people.
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Sodhi says the killer was never found but that police did not suspect it was a hate crime.
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Authorities have described the massacre by 29-year-old Omar Mateen as both terrorism and a hate crime.
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Indeed, our report makes clear that every state needs to strive to improve its hate crime reporting mechanisms.
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Buck's bill makes headway of its own, police could become a protected class under hate crime legislation nationally.
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Chloie Dianna Kensington, 38, a transgender activist and performer, worries the attack might have been a hate crime.
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Of nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the U.S., only 15,6133 agencies submitted hate crime data for 2016.
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Trying the suspect for a hate crime makes it a federal offense; the FBI now leads the investigation.
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His death was initially ruled a suicide but was declared a hate crime by a coroner last year.
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Mr. Fields faces a second trial on federal hate crime charges, which could result in the death penalty.
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It is a story about an alleged hate crime that didn't happen, but that was staged by Smollett.
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Drawing a direct line from the purveyors of hateful rhetoric to any specific hate crime is usually impossible.
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A Canadian man from Vancouver was later charged with a hate crime, second-degree murder and malicious harassment.
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Some criticized prosecutors for not quickly bringing hate crime charges in Louisville, the way they had in Pittsburgh.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released its hate-crime statistics for 2016, and the numbers were plain.
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The 11-year-old was also charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime, the police said.
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Encouraging hate crime victims to report bias incidents will also be a major focus of her new job.
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Mark Meechan, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, was found guilty in Airdrie Sheriff Court of a "hate crime" on Monday.
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We should be increasing our funding and protection for vulnerable communities and be proactive about hate crime prevention.
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The FBI just released analysis of hate crime statistics, detailing offenses, victims, offenders, and crime locations for 2202.
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But Mackey says it is a "hate crime and racial discrimination," for which those responsible should be punished.
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The trial, where Major will answer to first degree murder and hate crime charges, is scheduled for November.
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As we legitimately investigate a possible hate crime, we need to be careful not to lose that distinction.
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Lt. Wayne White of the Glen Carbon police said he expected prosecutors to also file hate crime charges.
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The city sued Smollett last April seeking to recover the costs incurred in investigating his hate-crime report.
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"It's not very often that we charge a hate crime in the village of Gouverneur," Fairbanks told CNN.
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Federal hate crime law explicitly protects against crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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A man was charged with a hate crime in October after an immigrant was beaten with a broomstick.
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Investigators initially believed that the store was chosen randomly and that the incident was not a hate crime.
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The 65-member Georgia Legislative Black Caucus said it now plans to push for a hate crime bill.
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The vandalism, which was discovered at Nessah Synagogue on Saturday morning, is being investigated as a hate crime.
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In the Chicago area, she added, legal resources for hate crime victims have actually decreased in recent years.
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The program will pair participating schools with community partners for anti-hate crime workshops, the mayor's office said.
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On Monday, federal prosecutors filed hate crime charges against Grafton Thomas for his suspected role in the stabbing.
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If you have experienced, witnessed or read about a hate crime, tell us about it using this form.
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Earlier on Saturday, a woman in New York City was charged with attempted assault as a hate crime.
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Smollett always stood by his initial story that he was the victim of a hate crime in January.
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This is far from over in Charlottesville, as often happens when a community has a violent hate crime.
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A Fire Department of New York spokesperson told The Hill that the incident was not a hate crime.
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A department spokesperson told The Hill in an email that there was no indication of a hate crime.
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Police initially treated the incident as a potential hate crime and brought two men into custody for questioning.
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A small group of protestors attended the ceremony, holding up signs condemning the attack as a hate crime.
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Without those two pieces — and obviously proving the hatred is the trickier one — a hate crime doesn't stand.
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"The decision would be based on intelligence analysis and obviously the potential increase in these types of attacks, whether the investigation shows they are a hate crime or racially motivated, and whether they can be tied to a larger organization or ideology rather than an individual hate crime" said Concordia.
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In addition to the above categories, the 2016 FBI report also included statistics for crimes against: Arabs (51) Hispanics or Latinos (344)Other races/ethnicities/ancestries (223) There was an overall rise in hate crimes The 6,121 hate crime incidents reported in 2016 mark an uptick in national hate crime numbers.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the Senate bill, said in a statement.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisBiden looks to shore up lead in S.C. House passes historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime This week: House to vote on legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime MORE (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the Senate bill, said in a statement.
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Ruben Natal-San Miguel: The idea came from Kris Graves right after my hate crime assault happen in January.
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The law extended federal hate crime protection to people victimized for their sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability.
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Proponents of hate crime legislation say the specter of hate crimes motivated by characteristics like height is, well, absurd.
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He faces 33 federal charges, including hate crime violations, in addition to separate capital murder charges in state court.
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Melanie Jeffs is explaining the rationale behind why misogyny should be categorized as a specific hate crime by police.
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Roof will become the first federal hate crime defendant to be sentenced to death, a Justice Department spokesman said.
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Police reportedly have detained one man for the assault, and the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
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Empire actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Thursday to filing a false police report and staging a hate crime.
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Police initially investigated the event as a hate crime but then shifted the investigation into Smollett and his claims.
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Hate crime law advocates say that black trans women in particular are especially vulnerable to harassment, discrimination and violence.
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And rising national hate crime statistics frequently cited by well-meaning nonprofits and media outlets are not above criticism.
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With the new hate crime enhancement, Woodward faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted.
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Some believe this is a clear case of someone who deserves to die for committing a horrific hate crime.
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Most hate crime will remain unreported: just 40% of respondents to the BJS survey reported their incident to police.
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"We're investigating this as a hate crime," Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson told a news conference early on Wednesday.
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The terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 dead, was not simply a hate crime.
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The first victim of a deadly hate crime after 53/11 was a Sikh man named Balbir Singh Sodhi.
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One major difference between the FBI and BJS figures is the kind of hate crime that's reportedly carried out.
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Jussie Smollett's family is speaking out days after the Empire star was targeted in an apparent hate crime attack.
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Even worse: Were they so successful at amplifying prejudice they've been able to drive an uptick in hate crime?
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As the investigation into Jussie Smollett's apparent hate crime continues to raise questions, Empire is standing behind the actor.
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The new guidance covers hate crime pertaining to race, religion, disability and crimes that are homophobic, biphobic and transphobic.
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" He added that "it looks like a hate crime" and that authorities will "get to the bottom of it.
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Kesha's legal team had argued that Dr. Luke had violated New York hate crime statutes in his alleged abuse.
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Authorities have labeled the attack a hate crime and said the suspect posted a manifesto online railing against immigrants.
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He was convicted in July for a hate crime in the burning of the Victoria Islamic Center on Jan.
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Background: Smollett claimed to be the victim of a hate crime in January when 24 men violently attacked him.
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He was the first victim of a hate crime in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11.
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Jussie Smollett is setting the record straight about his attack in an apparent hate crime in Chicago last month.
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Police have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime because of Beede's transgender identification, the statement said.
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Investigators do not believe there is a hate crime component connected at this point, the second NYPD spokesperson said.
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The FBI could reach a similar conclusion in this case, and decide that "hate crime" fits the bill better.
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A shooting back in April in Fresno, California, seemed like an open-and-shut case of a hate crime.
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But CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos said law enforcement needs more than that to call something a hate crime.
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Their families say the gunman had threatened the victims before, and they believe the shootings were a hate crime.
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Because the state's hate crime law did not cover murder, the shooter couldn't be charged with state hate crimes.
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Police say they are investigating the attack as a robbery, not a hate crime, The Modesto Bee newspaper reported.
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A New York state lawmaker introduced a bill Thursday that would make assaulting a police officer a hate crime.
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"We are still trying to determine a motive or suspects, but we have ruled out hate crime," Joyner said.
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He's being held without the possibility of bail, though this incident is not being investigated as a hate crime.
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However sentences for other types of hate crime—such as homophobic abuse—have included fines, community orders, and prison.
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Alright, this particular hate crime turned out to be a hoax, but let's remember, ALL OF THEM are hoaxes.
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"That if you are hunted down because of your profession, whatever the profession, that should be a hate crime."
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Last month, senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Tim Scott introduced legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime.
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James Jackson, 30, pleaded guilty to six counts, including murder, terrorism and a hate crime charge, earlier this year.
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Tennessee is one of a few states that does not have an explicit hate crime charge, the newspaper noted.
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He has also supported a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage and has spoken out against hate crime laws.
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The grisly details of Steinfeld's death have prompted some to call for the suspects to face hate crime charges.
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Cook County Commissioner Jesús "Chuy" García called for the charges against Trybus to be elevated to a hate crime.
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Washington police are investigating the assault of the Latino mayor of a Seattle suburb as a possible hate crime.
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Call for hate crime charges Cook County Commissioner Jesús "Chuy" García had called for hate crimes charges against Trybus.
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A widely publicized incident, which appeared to have been a hate crime, turned out to have been a hoax.
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Authorities have said the gunman's motive remains unclear and the possibility it was a hate crime is being investigated.
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Fear of being demonized or becoming the victim of a hate crime also affects how people approach health care.
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The public debate was agonizing in part because it took place against the backdrop of a brutal hate crime.
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Proving Nucera committed a hate crime, in addition to willful deprivation of rights, is a tough task for prosecutors.
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And an F.B.I. spokesman, Kevin Rowson, said on Thursday that the agency was not pursuing a hate-crime investigation.
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Whomever we elect for the presidency, will take on tomorrow's challenges surrounding anti-Semitic hate crime and Israel's security.
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Violence triggered by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability was not charged as a hate crime until 2112.
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In 2160, there were 212014,818 hate crime incidents reported, the majority of which were biased toward race and ethnicity.
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The charges in full were:A 16-year-old charged with theft, handling stolen goods, and an aggravated hate crime.
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Courtier was convicted in March of murder, felony hit and run and Oregon's hate crime statue, second-degree intimidation.
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We must call this what it is — a hate crime — and demand a thorough investigation at the highest level.
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A suspect has been detained and charged with 29 counts stemming from the attack, including violating hate crime laws.
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Hate crime is a major reason why Knockout's organizer, solicitor, and company director Phil Bradby got involved in boxing.
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British home secretary Sajid Javid pledged a tougher government approach to tackling hate crime as he announced the proposals.
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The police say Torres was motivated by "road rage" and are not investigating the murder as a hate crime.
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Legislation from the Rhode Island Democrat would ban any person convicted of a hate crime from purchasing a gun.
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Hall said the level of hate crime had abated since 2016, but was still higher than before the referendum.
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"The actor has also appeared in dozens of movies, with the lowest-rated one being 2005's "Hate Crime.
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The attack is now "being probed as a hate crime," according to a statement from Milwaukee Alderman Jose Perez.
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But he has also brought several hate crime cases, including one against a man accused of burning a mosque.
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Iman Atta, director of hate crime monitoring organization Tell MAMA, told VICE News that the group welcomed Parnham's sentence.
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No one was injured, but the attack, which broke the window, was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Mr. Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal charges earlier this year, including a hate crime for Ms. Heyer's death.
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It's unclear if Christian will be charged with a hate crime, but he has a history of racist actions.
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They said that if the evidence were to support it, they would classify the attack as a hate crime.
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They included obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs — a hate crime — and using a firearm to commit murder.
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If the attacks "aren't the definitions of hate crimes, I don't know what a hate crime is," he said.
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Justice4Grenfell, a community group working for justice for the residents of Grenfell Tower, called the act a hate crime.
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The number of hate crime groups rose 30% from 2014 to 2018, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The shooter did not appear to act out of racial or other motive covered by the hate crime law.
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The trial, which stretched over two weeks, had stirred a debate over what should be deemed a hate crime.
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He has long been skeptical of expanding hate crime laws that create federal jurisdiction over certain assaults and murders.
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"We do not have enough evidence to say conclusively whether this is a hate crime," she said in May.
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He put into effect the new rule over what to classify as an anti-Semitic hate crime on Jan.
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" Elesha Gayman, chairwoman of the Scott County Democrats, argued the display amounted to "a hate crime and hate speech.
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"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's claims that he was the victim of a violent hate crime were thrown into doubt.
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And some incidents of bias-motivated harassment or intimidation don't fit the F.B.I.'s definition of a hate crime.
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Officials say the two shooters targeted the kosher market and the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
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Mayor John Tecklenburg emphasized to reporters that the attack was neither an act of terrorism nor a hate crime.
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He said the police could not categorize the death as a hate crime until a motive was clearly established.
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He's facing federal hate crime charges based on evidence showing him to have a pattern of anti-Semitic beliefs.
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"If these aren't definitions of hate crimes, I don't know what a hate crime is," McConnell told reporters Monday.
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Herring said Tuesday he will reintroduce a set of bills aimed at updating hate crime and domestic terrorism laws.
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The group is considered a fringe entity in the U.K. and Fransen has been convicted of a hate crime.
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to teach hate crime prevention in schools in three Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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In the sensational aftermath of the Jussie Smollett hate crime investigation, you could be forgiven for asking the question.
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We have a system that doesn't dictate cooperation on hate crime plus a wide variety of data collection efforts.
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It combines the wrong-place-wrong-time randomness of a natural disaster with the precision of a hate crime.
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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop reiterated in a later news conference that he considered the shooting a hate crime.
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He was arraigned in federal court the following month and pleaded not guilty to the new hate crime charges.
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The group is considered a fringe entity in the U.K., and Fransen has been convicted of a hate crime.
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"By improving hate crime training, prevention, best practices, and data collection, we can stem hate crimes nationwide," Greenblatt said.
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The police are investigating whether the shooting, which rattled an L.G.B.T.Q. community already on edge, was a hate crime.
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This week, the actor Jussie Smollett was brutally attacked in what Chicago police are calling a possible hate crime.
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The authorities are still investigating the motivation for the attack, which the victims have characterized as a hate crime.
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Even by hate crime standards, the story of an assault on a celebrity seemed shocking, and garnered relentless attention.
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According to some experts, the motivation behind filing false hate crime reports may be more than just getting attention.
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Separately, Fields is also facing 20173 counts of federal hate crime charges – and the possibility of the death penalty.
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Separately, Fields is also facing 29 counts of federal hate crime charges – and the possibility of the death penalty.
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But there has been no movement toward bolstering hate crime laws or creating a database to track such crimes.
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Doubling down on the controversy, one of Salvini's ministers recently called for the scrapping of hate crime laws altogether.
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Separately, Fields is also facing 29 counts of federal hate crime charges — including the possibility of the death penalty.
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In March, Ken Buck, Republican congressman from Colorado, introduced legislation to expand federal hate crime laws to cover cops.
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Investigation of triple homicide is still very active and ongoing but determined to have not been a hate crime.
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I think there's a lot of education that needs to happen around hate crimes: What is a hate crime?
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Qadhi wanted people to be prepared — and that included knowing what to do when faced with a hate crime.
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Special prosecutor Dan K. Webb decided to prosecute after 'the grand jury's investigation revealed that Jussie Smollett planned and participated in a staged hate crime attack, and thereafter made numerous false statements to Chicago Police Department officers on multiple occasions, reporting a heinous hate crime that he, in fact, knew had not occurred.
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" Nottinghamshire's new definition of hate crime differs greatly from that of the US. According to the FBI's website, a hate crime is a "criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.
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"The grand jury's investigation revealed that Jussie Smollett planned and participated in a staged hate crime attack, and thereafter made numerous false statements to Chicago Police Department officers on multiple occasions, reporting a heinous hate crime that he, in fact, knew had not occurred," Webb said in a statement reported by CBS Chicago.
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The Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act, named for two victims (Khalid Jabara, killed in 85033, and Heather Heyer, killed in 2017) who were excluded from hate crime statistics due to poor data collection and reporting practices, would modernize hate crime reporting and increase both assistance and resources available for other victims.
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And many of those never make it on to the police radar, let alone the annual FBI hate crime report.
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For example, more law enforcement agencies participated in hate crime reporting this year, which might have bumped up the totals.
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S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a press conference announcing that Roof would be indicted on hate crime charges.
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Hate crime data is notoriously unreliable, and experts say that the numbers only represent a fraction of the wider problem.
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Read more:'Empire' star Jussie Smollett was reportedly attacked by men yelling racist and homophobic slurs in possible hate crime
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For law enforcement, this gets to a particularly tricky part of the law: It's hard to prosecute a hate crime.
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If Adams is convicted, prosecutors could seek a hate crime enhancement during sentencing, which could lead to a stronger punishment.
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A statement from the Chicago Police Department revealed that the authorities are investigating the assault as a possible hate crime.
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Grillot was shot and injured in the attack, which the FBI now says it is investigating as a hate crime.
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If convicted of the hate crime charge, the most serious count, Perez could be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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"We have no indication to call it a hate crime or any kind of terrorism act," Peel Regional Police Sgt.
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Attorneys representing Thomas issued a statement Tuesday saying the alleged assault of Booker in April was not a hate crime.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Saturday's rampage - which killed 20 people, including seven Mexicans - appeared to be a hate crime.
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Now that police have arrested a suspect, the next question is whether police will charge him with a hate crime.
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A woman in NYC attacked 7 people with an unknown chemical spray in what may have been a hate crime.
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Hate crime experts say the report's value is not as a meticulous count, but as a reliable barometer of trends.
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Just last month 11 Jewish people were also shot and killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue in a suspected hate crime.
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Harp has been charged with assault, as well as malicious harassment, which is more commonly known as a hate crime.
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The suspect has been charged with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder with hate crime allegations.
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The investigation is continuing into whether the attack meets the legal standard for charging as a hate crime, officials said.
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The incident is now being investigated as a kidnapping and potential hate crime, and all four teens are being questioned.
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Basically my family is still being confronted with a hate crime against Emmett Till and it's almost 65 years later.
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On Sunday, federal prosecutors said they are investigating the incident as a hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
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Police say her death is not currently being looked at as a hate crime, but that could change later on.
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A report from the Miami Police Department showing an incident that should have been flagged as a possible hate crime.
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Most of the police departments we contacted stressed that they followed the FBI's recommendations for "two-tier" hate crime reporting.
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The FBI has now taken over the investigation, as the incident has been classified as a hate crime, Hissrich said.
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Investigators have yet to determine a motive for the killing, which officials are looking into as a possible hate crime.
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A protester who raises his elbows when confronted by a cop could be charged with a hate crime and assault.
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After returning to the spotlight, Smollett performed "Powerful" and took the time to clarify reports about the apparent hate crime.
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In 2017, police recorded 94,098 hate crime offences, up 17 percent on the previous year, according to the interior ministry.
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The department added that it will be prosecuted as a hate crime and the FBI will be leading the investigation.
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