hate crime

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Recent Examples on the Web Young also admitted to personal use of a deadly weapon and hate crimes, both sentencing enhancements. Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024 This does not excuse the way the government acted, the PATRIOT Act’s disregard for civil liberties, or the numbers of hate crimes against Muslim Americans (or the hell that those Americans surely encountered making their way through an airport). Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024 Brewer pleaded guilty in 2019 to a federal hate crime and was sentenced to three years in prison. Sade Ajishegiri, Nic Napier, Max Reich and Isabella Vesperini, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2024 The incident, which happened in the 20th precinct, is not being investigated as a hate crime but could be escalated depending on the evidence uncovered, the spokesperson said. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hate crime 

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