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Hate Crimes

The data shows an increase of 4% since 2022.
“Today and every day, we will take swift action to detect and disrupt hate crimes,” said Mark Totten, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan.
“Those saying this was not a hate crime need to rethink what they define as hate,” the victim’s brother wrote.
Some 150 people attended the “United Against Hate” confab outside Phoenix.
Zainab Chaudry, director of the state’s Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter, praised Hamas as “Palestinian freedom fighters.”
“We hope to have some additional information in the coming weeks,” Paul Keith, chief of the El Cerrito Police Department, told JNS.
Dominic M. Koca said that he committed the crime so he could “be known for something.”
A young boy and a middle-aged man who were in Lakewood Church in Houston at the time are in critical and stable condition, respectively.
Before fleeing, the North African man said, “I am Palestinian, and you Jews are killing Palestinians.”
“We continue to receive messages of fear at the embassy from Israelis and Jewish students from all over Portugal,” said Dor Shapira.
Researchers found an average rate of 15.1 events a day.
The sentence “sends a clear message to those who would recklessly arm others with weapons that may be used to commit acts of mass violence,” said Damian Williams, a U.S. attorney.