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hate crime

noun

a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

hate crime

noun

a crime, esp of violence, in which the victim is targeted because of his or her race, religion, sexuality, etc

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A man has been arrested after slurry was spread on the streets in Ballymena, an incident the police are treating as a hate crime.

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Mayfield, now 49, was charged with one felony count of making a hate crime criminal threat with the ability to commit a violent injury, one felony count of criminal threats and one misdemeanor count of petty theft in September 2018.

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He was also charged and convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime using a racial slur and punching a man in 2017.

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Authorities are looking for a man who made racially charged statements and pounded on the door of an Agoura Hills home displaying a Palestinian flag in an incident investigators are calling a hate crime.

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Fiona Cole, who had helped with the event at Stormont, called what had happened a "hate crime".

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