Spaniards Protest Hate Crime Amid Twist in High-Profile Case More MADRID (AP) — Protests in Spain to denounce a rise in hate crimes against LGBTQ people went ahead on Wednesday after a high-profile case that had grabbed attention across the country took an unexpected twist. Thousands ...
Recent Cases Aside, Hate Crime Rare in McHenryByline: Bill Cole Daily Herald Staff Writer Several individuals reportedly shouting "white...Cole, Bill
harassment crime, the city’s current hate crime statute, and replace it with a “special allegation of hate crime motivation,” giving theCity Attorney’soffice greater range in prosecuting crimes targeting protected classes and the ability to ask for greater penalties on more serious cases: ...
Disability hate crimes—criminal victimization which is aimed at people specifically because of their disability identity—are alarmingly common in the lives of people with an intellectual disability and have serious (often lifelong) psychological and physical effects. This chapter provides many examples of...
(Borja et al.2020). The following examples were just the tip of an iceberg of such discriminatory experiences: an Asian woman in New York city was hit on the head with an umbrella and asked where her mask was (CNN April 6,2020a); a group of teenagers attacked a young Singaporean man...
Kopel notes that genocide “could happen to anyone, anywhere. It’s not limited to any group or culture.” He cites examples of the Holocaust, the Serbian genocide of the Bosnian Muslims and the Rwandan Hutu genocide of the Rwandan Tutsi. “Jews, Muslims and Christians are all victims of ...
Boudin said to some degree, hate crime allegations serve more of an "expressive value" than any "actual legal function" because the underlying crimes often already carry significant terms of punishment, particularly in murder or attempted murder cases. "We're all better off, it seems, i...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has decided to delay work on a $1.2 billion project meant to prevent invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes out of concerns that the Trump administration won't pay the federal government's share of the costs ...
The UK was probably the most Eurosceptic as they left the EU in 2020, due to concerns over the power of the Euro. And it seems that more and more countries are feeling the same way, even if Brexit didn’t turn out too well for the British. Many countries in Europe nowadays have a...
“I would encourage anyone who suffers hate crime, or receives a serious threat against them to report it to the police, either by calling 101 (999 in an emergency) or online through our True Vision web site atwww.report-it.org.uk.” ...