hate crime

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Recent Examples of hate crime But unfortunately, it’s become painfully clear that hate crimes and discrimination are in no way over. Jennifer Chan, StyleCaster, 30 Apr. 2025 Sharma is charged with multiple felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon, hate crime, elder abuse and resisting an officer by use of force or violence, prosecutors said. Jason Green, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025 Michael Howard, the president of PFLAG Concord-Kannapolis, the only LGBTQ organization in the region for over 10 years, said hate crimes against LGBTQ people are not unusual in the area. Nora O’Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2025 He has already been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms at the federal level after pleading guilty to hate crimes and weapons charges. Morgan Lee and Jamie Stengle, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 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
  • Garcia, who denies gang membership, had an immigration court order protecting him from deportation, which the administration acknowledged was an administrative error.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • But turning on error correction restored some of the performance.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Then, in a flurry of new moves in early May, officials sought to offset the impact of the Trump's tariffs, which threatened to further trouble an economy already beset by a property crisis, falling consumer demand and a high level of local government debt.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
  • Moreover, $14 trillion in U.S. debt maturing soon will be refinanced — likely at higher rates, noted CNBC.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Still, Pritzker's balancing act—managing a blue state in the heartland with challenges ranging from crime to affordability while also eyeing a national platform—remains fraught.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 May 2025
  • From cold cases cracked decades later to trials still underway, here are 18 fatal crimes that occurred at colleges and universities.
    Corin Cesaric, People.com, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The complaint at the crux of Lopez v. Apple is a violation of privacy.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • That's a seeming violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Noyb alleged.
    Ashley Belanger – May 14, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • McIver denies any wrongdoing and contends the prosecution is politically motivated.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • While the musician denied any wrongdoing – and has been supported by his wife Régine Chassagne (also a member of Arcade Fire) – the claims seem to have hurt the band’s commercial appeal.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • She is charged with one felony count of accessory after the fact.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
  • After Gabriel’s death, four social workers were accused of failing to protect him and were each charged with one felony count of child abuse and one felony count of falsifying public records.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, People.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • So city officials are making plans to possibly open a temporary facility to house people arrested on misdemeanor charges that could be in operation by this fall.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2025
  • Howard Geib, 54, of Merrillville is charged with dealing in methamphetamine, a Level 2 felony, and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025

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