How to Use bias crime in a Sentence

bias crime

noun

• Last month, Bivins tweeted that Oregon should do away with bias crime laws.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
• Jerry Palmer said last week there no was evidence of a bias crime.
  — Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
• Rosenblum urged those in attendance to use and spread awareness of the state’s bias crime hotline.
  — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
• Mark Meeks, 40, was charged with first-degree bias crime and menacing.
  — oregonlive, 5 June 2021
• His death grabbed the attention of the FBI and helped lay the foundation for Indiana to pass its version of a bias crimes law.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2023
• Wareing said a group of Spanish-speaking men were the targets of a bias crime earlier this year.
  — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• Is there a large number of a specific bias crime that may not fit with the area’s demographics?
  — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2012
• But as the nation faces a spread in bias crime incidents, the family wants to ensure the public remembers one of the worst hate crimes of the 20th century.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2018
• Report:Hate crimes will spike around the 2024 presidential election, civil rights group warns What is a bias crime in Oregon?
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
• The dangers, of course, extend beyond explicit bias crimes.
  — New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• The police have found no indication that the group attacked Mr. Unno because of his race, and have not classified the attack as a bias crime.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• The Jussie Smollett case could have a detrimental impact on those actual victims of bias crimes who seek justice in the future.
  — WSJ, 10 July 2019
• He was charged with a second-degree bias crime and harassment, officials said.
  — oregonlive, 24 Dec. 2020
• Request incident reports, and follow up with police to ask about cases that don’t appear to be bias crimes.
  — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2012
• And county district attorneys will be required to track and report their bias crime prosecutions and outcomes to the state.
  — oregonlive.com, 5 June 2019
• Dia, founder of Colorado’s African Leadership Group, was among those who demanded that the fire be investigated as a bias crime.
  — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2021
• No arrests have been made, and the incident is being investigated by the NYPD as a possible bias crime.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The former landlord of the Stewart Hotel, the longtime home of Portland’s oldest strip club, has pleaded guilty to bias crime and assault allegations.
  — oregonlive, 5 Nov. 2021
• Police did not issue any bias crime allegations against him.
  — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2020
• State lawmakers in 2019 shifted the official name of the offense from intimidation to bias crime — and upgraded the offense to a felony.
  — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2022
• Portland police are looking into a possible bias crime after a noose was left tied to a baseball field fence in Southwest Portland.
  — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2020
• An Idaho man is facing a bias crime charge after beating a transgender woman who used a women’s bathroom at an Oregon coast park, records show.
  — oregonlive, 30 Aug. 2019
• Law enforcement is not currently looking into the incident as a bias crime.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
• He’s pleaded not guilty to first-degree arson, five counts of committing a second-degree bias crime and five counts of first-degree criminal mischief.
  — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
• Ian Quin Jackson, 28, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including one count of second-degree assault, two counts of fourth-degree assault and two counts each of first and second-degree bias crime.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2020
• The Legislature in 2019 amended state law to rename intimidation a bias crime and classify it as a felony.
  — oregonlive, 16 June 2020
• Denson pleaded no contest to one count of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of a bias crime in the second degree on Friday — a hate crime under state law, the Oregonian reported.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2019
• He was being held on charges of menacing, criminal mischief, assault, unlawful use of a weapon and committing a bias crime.
  — oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2021
• State bias crime charges were dropped against a 23-year-old now accused in federal court of assaulting a foreign official in the June attack of a top Japanese diplomat in downtown Portland.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024