Sentences with phrase «witnessed hate crime»

If you are a victim of a hate crime, or have witnessed a hate crime, help is available through victim services and other resources.

According to a real - time electronic poll of teachers attending a conference organised by union NASUWT in Scotland, 52 per cent said they had experienced or witnessed hate crime in the last two years.

Over a half of teachers have experienced or witnessed hate crime in the last two years, a poll shows.

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Our nation witnesses persistently high rates of hate crimes and bias - related incidents.

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

The witness of an alleged hate crime involving UAlbany students who initially questioned the story is relieved arrests have been made in the case.

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.

The dud attempt at intimidation was just the latest in what Cuomo called «an explosion in the number of hate crimes» across the state in the weeks and months after the election — with November and December witnessing a stunning 106 percent increase in the number of bias incidents.

A slow start, but good use of language, beautifully written, characters to love and hate and what seemed like a good story until the rather grim ending, which made a complete lie of the blurb on the back: «Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone».

The trial earlier this month of a white man charged with a hate crime for beating a black man with a baseball bat in New York's Howard Beach took an unusual turn when black Harvard University law professor Randall L. Kennedy appeared as an expert witness for the defense.

In some cases the trigger may be an event, either global or personal, such as being a victim or witness to a race or religious hate crime.