Hate crimes rose for 2nd year in a row in 2016, FBI reports
WASHINGTON (AP) " The FBI says hate crimes rose for the second straight year in 2016, with increases in attacks motivated by bias against blacks, Jews, Muslims and LGBT people.A report released Monday says there were more than 6,100 hate crimes last year. That's up about 5 percent from the year before. In 2015 and 2016, that number was driven by crimes against people because of their race or ethnicity.More than half the 4,229 racially motivated crimes were against black people. [...]
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