Assemblymember Grace Lee speaks during a press conference in Manhattan. Legislators added 23 new offenses in a modified bill attached to the state budget. [ more › ]
Police are still trying to figure out exactly what happened, but officials say students may have been attacked because of their sexual orientation.
The jibe coined by Inverness-born Spectator magazine editor Fraser Nelson after the introduction of the new Hate Crime Act, was this week quoted by Lord Hope, once Scotland’s most senior judge and a former deputy president of the UK Supreme Court. It could yet be the SNP’s epitaph. In less than a fortnight, Police Scotland has been deluged with thousands of complaints, hardly any of which will result in prosecution, never mind conviction. No-one knows how or if these complaints will be recorded,...
More than 1,000 hate crime complaints have been made to police every day on average since Scotland's controversial new law was introduced on April Fool's Day.
The fires that caused severe damage to the Fresno Ararat Armenian Cemetery Sunday afternoon were found to be arson, but not a hate crime, FOX26 News reports. According to the Fresno Fire Department, firefighters responded to the cemetery on Sunday for reports of several trees on fire in the clearly marked Armenian section of the cemetery, leading the …
Michigan State University is investigating an alleged hate crime. According to the university, an "aggravated assault" happened near the MSU Main Library on Circle Drive on Monday, Apr. 15, 2024.
The first day of the Birmingham Civil Rights Conference wrapped up Monday afternoon with the theme being the trauma of crime and hate.
Iowa has a new law that makes illegal immigration a state crime if the person had been deported once already or denied entry before.
(The Center Square) - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill Wednesday that would make illegal immigration a state crime. Senate File 2340 would make illegal immigration an aggravated misdemeanor under two circumstances: If the person has been denied admission to or has been excluded, deported, or removed from the United States or if the person was previously deported and if the person left the U.S. while under a deportation or removal order and returned. The...
It’s easy to laugh at the latest example of SNP incompetence, but new hate crime laws will have serious consequences – not last for the police’s ability to solve actual crimes, says Paul Ormerod The Scottish hate crime law has been a prominent feature in the media ever since it came into force just over []
(The Center Square) - The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would make illegal immigration a state crime after a heated debate where one Democrat called the bill "extremist legislation." House Bill 4156 makes “impermissible occupation” a criminal act, defined as a person willfully and without permission entering and remaining in Oklahoma without first obtaining legal authorization to enter the United States, according to the bill. It...
Scottish police said on Wednesday they had received more than 7,000 online reports of offenses in the first week since the introduction of a new hate crime law that opponents say could curb free speech and waste police time. The law, brought in by a devolved government controlled by the