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    New rapid-response team plans to confront hate crimes in the D.C. area

    By | May 11th, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Julie Zauzmer May 9, 2017   When Symi Rom-Rymer heard about a family in Fairfax County that found their home broken into and “F— Muslims” scrawled on their walls, she wished she could do something

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    Spread of Hate Crimes Has Lawmakers Seeking Harsher Penalties

    By | May 9th, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Audra D.S. Burch April 30, 2017   The anonymous email arrived on a Saturday afternoon, its message jumbled, misspelled, in capital letters. It was not addressed to a specific individual at the Birmingham Islamic

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    Man accused of multiple firebombings, attempted murder and hate crime in Northern California

    By | May 9th, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Veronica Rocha April 28, 2017   A Northern California man was arrested Friday after authorities say he launched firebomb attacks on police and two black neighbors. Matthew Scott Jones, 39, was arrested at 1:40

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    Nampa man sentenced for hate crime in death of gay man at Lake Lowell

    By | May 9th, 2017|Categories: Articles|

    by Morgan Boydston April 27, 2017   BOISE -- A Nampa man was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday for a hate crime after killing a gay man near Lake Lowell last April. 23-year-old Kelly Schneider

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