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This website helps victims report hate crimes

Thursday, November 02, 2017

This website helps victims report hate crimes

 

"Seeking justice can be challenging for many hate crime victims. Hate Crime Help wants to make it easier.

Civil rights groups noticed a troubling spike in hate crimes in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

Among the worst: 61 headstones were pushed over at a Jewish cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in September of that year; a black church in Greenville, Mississippi, was set on fire in October; that same month, three men were arrested for plotting to bomb an apartment complex, home to Somali immigrants, in Garden City, Kansas..."

 

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