hate crime

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Recent Examples of hate crime The attack has spurred allegations of a hate crime against the girl, who is Yemeni and Muslim. Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025 Once the news hit social media, the district began receiving emails blasting the district for what was referred to as a hate crime. Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025 Last year, more than 15% of all hate crime events in California were anti-Jewish, even though Jewish people make up about 3% of the state population. Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025 The incident is being investigated by the Justice Department as a hate crime. Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hate crime
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Noun
  • The police report does not list the incident as a hate/bias crime.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Between 1991 and 1992, Kansas City police recorded 59 bias crimes, but only one was classified as a gay bashing.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • For Baltimore, the margin for error is gone.
    Andy Scholes, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Wolverines then made three consecutive hitting errors, essentially putting the set out of reach.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the Brooklyn prosecution, the Mafia played a major role in the high-end poker games, with mobsters posing as ordinary players at the tables and providing the muscle to collect debts, prosecutors said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • United’s first goal owed a debt to a clash between Van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister, with Liverpool unhappy that play wasn’t stopped for a head injury.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As Robert Kalmey observes, this moment encapsulates what Roman historians thought of as the worst of all of Octavius’s crimes against the state before becoming emperor.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Before 1999, violations could lead to a $10,000 fine, two years in prison and losing a liquor license.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The committee has made several allegations against Blain related to public records violations, bullying and harassment.
    Susan Gill Vardon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The company has also filed a countersuit denying allegations of wrongdoing, while claiming over $116 million in damages and lost profits.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Attorneys for both Billups and Rozier have denied any wrongdoing.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The mother of the boy who shot Zwerner, Deja Taylor, was sentenced to two years in prison for felony neglect and federal weapons charges.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Chelsea was arrested three times between September and November 2024 in Wisconsin, beginning with a September 2024 arrest on multiple felony charges, including neglecting a child and possession of methamphetamine.
    Anna Myers, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2006, she was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery in Cabarrus County.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The forgery charges are felonies, and the election charge is a misdemeanor.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025

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