Newswire : FBI reports sharp rise in hate crimes targeting Black and Asian people

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Newswire : FBI reports sharp rise in hate crimes targeting Black and Asian people

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports involving 7,759 criminal incidents and 10,532 related offenses motivated by bias toward race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity. Further, the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics, 2020, reported 7,554 single-bias incidents involving 10,528 victims. Percent distribution of […]

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