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AG Holder urges new hate crimes law

In Civil Rights, Politics & Law posted by TD Staff

The attorney general’s call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has been a surge in white supremacist activity.

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“Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed brazen acts of violence committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable,” Holder told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

He cited separate attacks over a two-week period that killed a young soldier in Little Rock, an abortion provider in Wichita and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.



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