Sentences with phrase «as a hate crime on»

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Just like the hate crimes committed against Asians by blacks on both coasts it is referred to as «disputes between communties.

If I were harrassed by these hypocritical, war - promoting anti-abortionista's, I'd merely sue them on «relgious - hate - crimes» grounds, as my pagan belief leaves ALL failed culture war issues up to me!

As a African American I have heard members of my own community say that there are hate crimes against us on a regular basis.

rightfully so... btw, damage is done as this has sparked a new wave of hate crimes on the continent.

Police in the UK are treating an alleged racist attack on Raheem Sterling at Manchester City's training ground as a hate crime.

As May knows, both the USA and UK have recently experienced disturbing spikes in hate crime and hostile sentiments towards migrants and minorities are a cause for concern on both sides of the Atlantic.

Offenses against first responders such as police, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel would be designated a hate crime, according to a bill to be considered on Tuesday in the Senate.

The governor has been active in recent days on other matters, including taking steps to counteract a rise in hate crimes after the election of Donald Trump as president.

In an article about the future of litigation against «Don't Ask, Don't Tell,» Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, was quoted last week in Politico as suggesting the administration's defense of the law in court would allow the federal hate crimes law to stay on the books.

Of course, that is a notion that will be hysterically rejected by nationalist sympathisers, who will fall back on painting any critic as someone who conflates national pride with hate crimes.

It was introduced in recognition of National Crime Victims» Rights Week in April as a result of vicious hate crimes, including this year's bias attacks against five elderly Asian Americans in Manhattan and a Mexican man on Staten Island, and last year's vicious beating of gay College Point resident Jack Price.

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

A report of its ad hoc committee also called for the passing of hate crime laws by South Africa and Nigeria as part of measures to contain the rising cases of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in South Africa.

On how to criminalise such attacks, the parties agreed to «evolves legislative instruments such as hate crime laws to promote tenets of solidarity, support and protection for Nigerians living in (The Diaspora) towards finding lasting solutions to the crisis in South Africa and other similar cases.»

Attacks on members of alternative subcultures should be classified as hate crimes as they are rooted in how the person looks and nothing else.

In statement, DiNapoli said the audit was spurred in part by a request from Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman, who issued a report earlier in the year raising concerns on whether law enforcement was giving proper identification to hate crimes as is required by state law.

The deadly shooting of two immigrants from India in Kansas, which is being investigated as a possible hate crime, has raised new alarms about a climate of hostility toward foreigners in the U.S., where Trump has made clamping down on immigration a central plank of his «America first» agenda.

As hate crimes continue to plague Jewish facilities and sites around New York, state lawmakers are pushing bills designed to crack down on the situation.

In the late 1980s, as hate crimes legislation was first discussed seriously in Albany, Republicans hoped to claim credit on an issue popular among constituencies including the African - American and Jewish communities.

The brought about the huge rise in disability hate crimes as they branded those on DLA as fraudsters and subjected them to ATOS.

As has been his style, Cuomo did not mention President - elect Donald Trump by name, but referenced the scrutiny that has been placed on hate crimes and racist graffiti in the wake of Election Day in November.

BROOKLYN, NY — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent a letter to President - Elect Donald Trump last week requesting the incoming head of state to meet with Aml El Sokary, a Muslim cop who says she was the victim of a hate crime in Brooklyn on Dec. 3, as well as other members of the NYPD's Muslim Officers Society.

He was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan Criminal Court on 16 counts of aggravated harassment as a hate crime and one count of aggravated harassment.

A spokesman for Corbyn said the Labour leader attended a Stand Up to Racism event on Saturday co-convened by a senior member of the SWP as he «wanted to show his support for the campaign against racism and xenophobia, particularly given the rise in hate crime since the EU referendum in June».

Peele's satire of racial violence arrived as real - life hate crimes were on the rise and neo-Nazis were on the march.

Here at Just Enough UK, we provide schools with workshops on key topics such as Modern day slavery, Radicalisation, Hate crime, Inclusion and other issues facing modern day children.

Actual events inspired this narrative of two teens — Jason, a gay 13 - year - old surviving on the streets after being rejected by his family, and Doug, a 17 - year - old skinhead punk rocker — as their lives intersect in a violent hate crime that forever changes them.

Of 300 contributors to online surveys and focus groups, 71 % identified themselves as Dalit (formerly known as Untouchables — the lowest castes, located outside and below the Hindu varna system), 58 % claimed to have suffered discrimination on grounds of caste, 79 % believed they would not be understood by the police if they reported a caste - related «hate crime» and 85 % believed there was no legislation available to protect victims of caste discrimination.

Lawyers from Mishcon attend the centre on a monthly basis to supervise second and final year law students as they advise clients on a range of legal issues, including: discrimination; civil partnership formation and dissolution; cohabitation issues; immigration; wills and probate; and hate crime.

Montreal police investigating spray - painting of swastikas on cars as hate crime, Canadian Press

In the meantime Channel 4, by its inactivity, condoned behaviour which bordered, if not trespassed, on the criminal; in my opinion much of what happened was racist abuse and could be open to prosecution as «hate crime».

Many suddenly feel empowered to discriminate against others based on race, creed, sexual orientation, or gender identity, as evidenced by the rising number of hate crimes committed in the nation.