Photo provided courtesy of Unsplash.com By Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer Hate crime statutes were originally created to deter and punish crimes that were fueled by bias against the victim based on their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.[1] The purpose of hate crime statutes […]
By: Guilia Schaub, Staff Writer The entire world was horrifically shocked on Saturday, October 27, 2018, when Richard Bowers opened fire in the Tree of Life Synagogue during Shabbat services and brutally murdered eleven people. [1]It was even further sickened by the attack when news sources confirmed Bowers’ actions […]
By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer In recent news, it seems as if every day there have been incidents of hate crimes reported throughout the nation from mailed pipe bombs to various people of political power, to the shooting of two black people in a grocery store in Kentucky, and […]
