by John Walsh

November 21, 2016

 

After a wave of hate crimes across the state and the country since the election of Donald Trump as president, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed Sunday to create a state police unit specifically dedicated to protecting civil rights. He cited the spray painting of a swastika onto a Brooklyn park over the weekend and the case of a black freshman at the University of Pennsylvania who was sent pictures of lynching and racial slurs, as recent examples of the divisiveness that had gripped the country, Reuters reported Sunday.

 

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