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A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 78 percent of Americans believe aggressive rhetoric from elected officials makes violence against targeted groups more likely.
The families of the slain students have repeatedly pressed for a hate crime designation, to no avail.
A man charged with fatally shooting three people and wounding two others at a Detroit home targeted them because they were part of the LGBTQ community, Detroit prosecutor Kym Worthy said on Friday.
Overall attacks that also include vandalism and harassment remained near record-high levels, reports the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in an annual report released three days after a gunman opened fire at a Southern California synagogue.
The website, where like-minded users with various interests interact with each other, particularly appeals to people who feel pushed off mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
John T. Ernest, 19, is also charged with arson in an early morning fire at an Escondido mosque last month.
On social media, the teenager spoke in world-worn tones about the need to “reclaim our nation at any cost.”
The colloquial “hate crime” differs from the criminal conduct that bears the same name — and they are not always interchangeable under the law.
Appealing to legislators to act as the “voice” of the 50 people killed in the March 15 attack on two Christchurch mosques, Prime Minister Jacinda Ahearn bypassed normal parliamentary procedure to win swift passage of the bill.
Security officials and representatives of Jewish groups gathered in Washington, D.C., for a planning exercise on how they would respond to future attacks on Jewish facilities.