Sentences with phrase «hate crimes targeting»
Since the election, NBC News has reported a tripling of «hate crimes targeting Muslims, their mosques and businesses.»
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My administration has launched a number of investigations into hate crimes targeting minorities and immigrants.
Eric Adams» letter to Trump follows an alleged hate crime targeting a Muslim officer in Bay Ridge on Dec. 3.
Not exact matches
Nearly half of all hate crimes reported in Canada in 2015 targeted victims based on race and religion
Jews are unique in their position as targets of hate crimes.
@Chad, «Jews are unique in their position as targets of hate crimes.»
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.»
A Long Island Rail Road commuter who was targeted in a racist rant aboard the train says she plans to press charges against her tormenter, calling his words a «hate crime.»
This could deter people from reporting crimes and gives carte blanche to perpetrators of hate crime who could target people that will be reluctant to report it.»
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Community Heroes Protection Act, which would designate crimes targeted towards first responders as hate crimes, was introduced Tuesday in Albany.
The anti-Muslim hate crime monitoring service, Tell MAMA, reported a large spike in online abuse targeting Muslims since Woolwich.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced Tuesday he will introduce legislation that would add rioting and inciting to riot that target specific protected classes to offenses under the state's hate crime laws.
A bill in the state Legislature would designate targeting police and firefighters a hate crime.
The act would designate crimes that specifically target police, firefighters and other emergency service workers punishable as hate crimes.
In 2009 in Rockland County two black Spring Valley youths were charged with «hate crimes» for targeting a South American laborer for a mugging because they knew a man fitting such a description would be more likely to be carrying cash.
A new state bill would make it a hate crime to use physical force on a police officer — and its chief sponsor argued the past two years of Black Lives Matter demonstrations have made cops a target for violence.
Democratic lawmakers yesterday called on the Republican - controlled House to follow the Senate in passing a hate - crime bill that targets gay and gender bias on the eve of the 31st Annual...
By allowing judges to order vandals to clean up their own mess, allowing for diversity education to counteract hate - fueled graffiti, and creating a new Class - E felony for graffiti that encourages gang activity or targets religious property, this multi-faceted approach combats every aspect of this ever - rising crime,»
There's more: Gun violence disproportionately affects minority and vulnerable communities — children at Sandy Hook, worshipers at a Charleston prayer group, young Black men, and the LGBT community, itself the target of an estimated 20 % of all hate crimes.
The bulk of bias crimes committed over the past few months have targeted Jewish individuals and institutions, but the city, state and nation have also witnessed an uptick in hate incidents directed at people of the Islamic faith.
Governor Cuomo announced plans to create a new hate - crimes unit in the state police and legal assistance for immigrants targeted for deportation or discrimination.
I hate when people say «where whatever you want, who cares» because you are just setting yourself up to be the target of a crime, especially if you are traveling on your own.
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They are invisible in our society and on the other hand they are shouted at and sometimes targets of hate crimes.
These laws do not recognize any minority status of the victim, but rather that the victim was targeted for a particular discriminatory aspect (People of European «White» can be victims of successfully prosecuted hate crimes in the United States).
The Church's teachings were oftentimes hard to follow, but central to their message was their incessant picketing of the funerals of soldiers and homosexuals who had died of AIDS or had been the targets of hate crimes.
Also, can the federal hate crime laws apply, because he advocates targeting based on the specific race that he mentioned?
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.
We know that many of our clients and members of our community have grown up as targets of many different types of oppression and experience the increase in hate crimes around the country as reopening of old wounds.