hate crime

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Recent Examples of hate crime Captain Kelly Swift of the New York State Police Troop E’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation said during a news conference on Friday that officers hadn't ruled out that the murder was a hate crime amid the ongoing investigation, per a clip shared by News 10 NBC. Becca Longmire, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025 No indication of a hate crime In a joint statement released on Sunday, the state police and Ritts addressed whether investigators are pursuing hate crime charges against the suspects. Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2025 Investigators haven’t ruled out classifying the murder as a hate crime or making additional arrests, Swift said Friday. Zoe Sottile, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025 Amid Ye’s earlier embrace of Hitler and Nazi propaganda, experts spoke to Billboard about the dangers of someone with such a vast social media following promoting antisemitic tropes, especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews and Jewish institutions had reached alarming levels. Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hate crime
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Noun
  • Through last Sunday, bias crimes in the city were down 18% this year, with 18 incidents compared to 22 by this time last year.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Hay was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on assault and bias crime charges, officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024
Noun
  • Yet, as Attanasio continues to clamp down on spending, his team’s margin for error keeps shrinking.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Gibney explores her long career, her occasional errors and her innovative work in diagnosing and understanding multiple personality disorder.
    Jason Bailey, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When Wilson took over in late 2015, Bogus Basin was on a run of tough snow years, bleeding money and $8 million in debt.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 28 Feb. 2025
  • On February 25, the U.S. debt ceiling was raised by another $4 trillion.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In 2020, in a Big Ten-on-SEC crime, No. 15 Iowa (6-2) would have replaced No. 9 Georgia (7-2).
    Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • But the government didn’t set them up to commit these crimes.
    David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Since this was a probation violation, Einstein was sent back to jail.
    Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The consequences for violations are not clearly spelled out, but the ban is broader and took effect sooner than the deadline under the California Phone-Free Schools Act.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The names include presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, who strenuously deny any wrongdoing.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Benn had tested positive for clomiphene, a fertility drug used by women who struggle to ovulate, but repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
    Ben Church, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Capital felony murder charges were filed against two of the escapees, and other charges were pending against all four inmates, authorities said.
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Trump was accused of illegally retaining the documents following his first term in the White House and was indicted in June 2023 on dozens of federal felony charges.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • On Friday, Chief Marlin, 51, was charged with two counts of failure to report an ethics crime, which is a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of evidence tampering.
    Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Blank, who is being held without bail in Maryland and faces misdemeanor charges of trespassing and obstructing law enforcement, is from the Bay Area.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 19 Feb. 2025

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