Sentences with phrase «for hate crime»

The measures backed by the eight - member conference include creating a specified offense for hate crime graffiti, boosting the charge from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony.

A former university student charged pleaded guilty in St. Lawrence County Court to sending a note to a SUNY Potsdam professor in 2015 that threatened him and his family on the day is trial for a hate crime was originally scheduled.

«Despite the hateful language used... the content of the letter falls below the threshold for a hate crime,» police said in a statement Tuesday.

«I said to the government «Will they confirm unequivocally that a Christian who says that Jesus the only son of the one true God can not be arrested for hate crime or any other offense?»»

You wouldn't be arrested for a hate crime.

If you wrote a story against muslims, you would go to jail for a hate crime.

Of course I was arrested for a hate crime and he was not arrested at all even though he assaulted me.

It's okay GodsPeople, you will learn soon enough about equality when you spend your first 20 years in prison for a hate crime.

«Today's arrest in Israel is the culmination of a large - scale investigation spanning multiple continents for hate crimes against Jewish communities across our country,» US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement.

I believe that, if there is a true respect for the law in this country, the author of the movie, Mr. ImBacile, and people like Terry Jones, should be prosecuted for hate crimes.

There are even those who would have us that believe it to be a sin, and preach against it to be incarcerated for hate crimes.

What we do is we start sending people like you to jail for hate crimes against these people, that will stop the bigotry from spreading on the streets.

The Republican - controlled Senate on Wednesday approved three measures designed to stiffen penalties for hate crimes violations and punish groups that participate in the boycott of Israel.

The Met Police and other forces also seem to be responding diligently, with the commissioner telling the London Assembly this week that arrest rates for hate crimes in the capital are up 75 % since the referendum.

Howie Katz Dogged Fighter for Hate Crimes Protections During a career where he's held senior posts in LGBTQ and Jewish community groups and on staff for top elected officials — most prominently, Governor David Paterson — Howie Katz played the lead role in mobilizing community and political support for New York's hate crimes law.

Even accounting for the fact that gay and lesbians are a disproportionate target for hate crimes, if you assume they make up 10 % of the population (probably a fair estimate) and that all victims of sexual orientation related hate crimes are gays and lesbians (for the same of simplicity), the incidence of hate crimes in the gay and lesbian community is still only 20 hate crimes per 100,000 gays and lesbians, and the incident of violent hate crimes is only 10 per 100,000 gays and lesbians.

Not exact matches

The other possible outcome of the experiment is the realization that social media is useless for predicting hate crimes.

But for police analysts trying to predict who will actually commit a hate crime, using algorithms to sort through the firehose of bile that flows through a site like Twitter can be nearly useless.

«If someone says: «hey, I have a picture of someone assaulting another person, and committing a hate crime,» that's great,» said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, the spokesman for the Seattle Police Department, which used social media to help identify the pilot of a drone that crashed into a 2015 Pride Parade.

Despite the fact that there are an estimated 10 million LGBTQ - identified Americans and 62 % of Americans are in favor of marriage equality, LGBTQ people are not protected from workplace discrimination, face growing numbers of violent hate crimes, including harassment on public transportation, and have been called the cause for «societal collapse» by the sitting Vice President.

A Scottish YouTube comedian, Mark Meechan, was found guilty of a hate crime on Tuesday for posting a video of himself training his girlfriend's pug, Buddha, to mimic a Nazi and respond to commands the court ruled anti-Semitic.

«We do not know the total costs for the victims of this horrific hate crime, therefore are working to raise as much as possible and disperse the funds as fast as possible.»

Not only can I not marry my partner, but I can be evicted and fired for being gay in this state and there are no hate crime laws on the books in this state protecting gays and lesbians (and until October 28, 2009 there were none on a federal level either).

Joining the Catholic Church merely out of an affection for morality is like joining the Nahzee [sic] Party because of one's affection for order and uniforms: you can get all of it elsewhere, and your participation only makes one complicit in a variety of hate crimes, and physical and civil rights abuses.

If the Crown Heights and LA riots had been directed towards Muslims in retailiation for 9 - 11 it would be called a «hate crime».

It is not hate to ask for accountability when someone is accused of the crimes Ratzinger is accused of.

Defending Shepard as having been the victim of «a brutal, anti-gay hate crime,» a spokesperson for the Matthew Shepard Foundation denounced Jimenez's claims in a statement to The Huffington Post at the time of the release of The Book Of Matt.

In fact I can guarantee you who ever made those signs is now on someone hate lists for crimes against Allah!

They can promote hate all over the places, they should be responsible for a lot of hate crimes out there.

The christian based F.B.I. in california for example is nothing but communist christians allowing hate crimes and murder against the entire white race.

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Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in place.

They look at things like the Koran burning, WBC's hate campaign, the nastiness directed toward LGBTs, weekly arrests of pastors and priests for various crimes and so on and ask how this looks like Jesus.

If Catholics in San Francisco behaved this way towards gay people, we would be arrested for perpetrating a hate crime... and lets face it, «Freedom of Speech» now is only allowed to gays in our city... while they pretend to be the «victims» of Catholic prejudice.

You want to see criminal prosecutions for performing «HATE» crimes for churches that won't marry Adam & Steve?!

the last subway incident was a hate crime, guns are here and they are not going anywhere, I support stricter gun control laws, ban all assault weapons, and sever punishment for the crimes committed with firearms, no insanity plea accepted, just hang them

Blaming atheists for the crimes of the Communists (like Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot) is like hating Tom Selleck and Geraldo Rivera because both Hitler and Stalin had mustaches.

When people stop protecting crazy women who kill their children for Jesus, people who commit hate crimes fo Jesus, people who want to revise history because they feel that their religion didn't have enough input in our laws and constitution.

Muslims, including lifelong U.S. citizens, are being detained at airports for no other reason than their faith, and law enforcement officials report a surge in hate crimes against them.

The Home Office responded to Premier's request for comment saying: «All forms of hate crime are completely unacceptable and those who commit these awful crimes should be met with the full force of the law.

Lord Person has urged for a discussion on the issue because he believes what constitutes a hate crime has not been clearly enshrined in law.

Please educate yourself on what a hate crime actually is and how people are punished for committing one.

Hate crimes are just a construct liberals have set up to double up the punishments for the people groups... should I say it..

The Council on American - Islamic Relations in Kansas is asking for Purinton to be charged with a hate crime both federally and at the state level «in order to send a strong message that violence targeting religious or ethnic minorities will not be tolerated.»

Where is the outrage from Jews (for whom we created anti-antisemitism laws), African - Americans (who have faced the most hate crimes), politicians (who advocate law and order), and Christians (the largest America group which advocates peace, love, harmony, and understanding).

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

I would say for the most part, yes hate crime laws are pretty BS.

Though police have not released a motive for the crime, online postings by Hicks related to «anti-theism» have led some on social media to speculate that it was possibly a hate crime.

Joining the Catholic Church merely out of the misplaced notion that morality is linked to the existence of a supernatural agent is like joining the Nahzee [sic] Party because of one's affection for order and crisp uniforms: you can get all of it elsewhere, and your participation only makes one complicit in a variety of hate crimes, and physical and civil rights abuses.

Witness, for example, Bill H1728 in the state of Massachusetts, An Act Relative to Gender - Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes, or its Canadian....