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Minnesota Town Calls for Attacks on Police to be Considered Hate Crimes

Red Wing, MN's resolution calls for anyone who hurts a police officer to be charged with a hate crime. The hope is cities across the country will adopt this stance. More Here.

October 8, 2015

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How Small Town Officers Captured the Most Wanted Man in America

Roof’s getaway and the ensuing manhunt ended in an unexpectedly mundane fashion and in an unlikely place: a traffic stop in Shelby, a small town between Charlotte and Asheville in the rolling foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

June 22, 2015

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North Carolina Florist Helped Catch Charleston Church Killer

Later in the morning, Debbie Dills was on her way to work at a florist shop in Kings Mountain, North Carolina – about 250 miles north of Charleston -- when a car caught her eye. More Here.

June 19, 2015

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Video: North Carolina Florist Helped Catch Charleston Church Killer

Later in the morning, Debbie Dills was on her way to work at a florist shop in Kings Mountain, North Carolina – about 250 miles north of Charleston -- when a car caught her eye.

June 19, 2015

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Suspect Who Killed 9 in Charleston Church in Custody

A white man, reportedly in his early 20s, entered the Emanuel African Methodist Church, stayed for nearly an hour during a prayer meeting and then opened fire. Nine people were killed in the historic black church on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston.

June 18, 2015

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FOP President Wants to Expand Hate Crimes Law to Protect Police

Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, has called on Congress to expand the Federal hate crime laws to protect law enforcement officers and punish those who target them.

January 6, 2015

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3 Dead in Jewish Community Center Attack in Kansas

Law enforcement sources say a grandfather and grandson were shot dead in the parking lot of a Jewish community center and a third female victim is dead at a nearby Jewish care home.

April 13, 2014

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The Real Danger of the Trayvon Martin Case

We have seen this type of tragedy before and will doubtlessly see it again. It gave rise to the whole Tawana Brawley outrage; it led to the outrageous persecutions and prosecutions of Duke Lacrosse players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans.

July 25, 2013

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Gangs Often Drive Hate Crimes

Today, it's the street gangs, primarily black and Latino that are the real problem, and until law enforcement and the public puts these gangs in check, they'll continue to destroy lives and communities while motivated by blind hate.

December 27, 2012

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FBI Releases Hate Crime Report

The number of hate crimes reported in 2011 fell 6% from the prior year, but crimes against a victim's sexual orientation rose, the FBI announced Tuesday.

December 10, 2012

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Sikh Temple Shooter Was White Supremacist, Army Vet

The shooter who opened fire before worship services Sunday at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people before he was killed by police is Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran who served in the military approximately between 1992 and 1998.

August 5, 2012

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First Black Federal Officer Killed In 1883 Honored

William Henderson Foote's name had been forgotten until this week, when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) honored him as the first black federal officer killed in the line of duty.

May 14, 2012