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Local LGBT organizations and Gumede's relatives believed the attack to be a hate crime. Sisanda Gumede was a lesbian and an activist for LGBTQ causes. [187] [188] [189] On October 12, 2021, lesbian Limakatso Puling was shot and killed in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Her family suspects that the shooting was a hate crime. [190] [191]
Hate crimes can have significant and wide-ranging psychological consequences, not only for their direct victims but for others of the group as well. Moreover, victims of hate crimes often experience a sense of victimization that goes beyond the initial crime, creating a heightened sense of vulnerability towards future victimization. [19]
The FBI listed 775 victims of anti-white hate crimes in 2019, more than victims of anti-Asian or anti-Arab hate crimes but less than victims of anti-black hate crimes. [156] Between 2008 and 2012, anti-white hate crimes were the 3rd most common form of hate crimes, behind anti-black and anti-LGBT hate crimes (see detailed Hate crime#Victims in ...
A woman in Plano, Texas, has been convicted on charges of hate crime in connection to a 2022 incident in which several Asian American women were physically and verbally attacked.
Dion Marsh listens to his attorneys Bill Smith and Vita Mennie during his sentencing Friday, July 26, 2024, for terrorism in a violent crime spree targeting Orthodox Jews in Lakewood and Jackson.
Since the FBI began tracking hate crime, Black Americans have been its most common victims—but the data likely fail to show the full picture
The United States has passed some legislation to combat increasing violence against LGBTQ people. In the late 1990s, the Hate Crime Statistics Act (P.L. 101–275) was passed [17] to try to prevent further hate crimes and enhance criminal sentences for people who do commit them. While this act was passed more than 20 years ago, local police ...
State data shows 13 hate crimes were reported in 2022, but Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama thinks that is low. ... stating that “hate crimes not only harm victims but also strike fear into ...