Jewish cemeteries vandalized, mosques set on fire. Sikhs shot and killed —has the United States normalized hate violence and is the Trump administration to blame?
To discuss the current issues surrounding hate crimes in the United States:
- Zainab al-Suwaij, executive director of the American Islamic Congress.
- Arjun Sethi, adjunct professor of Law and Georgetown University and Vanderbilt Law School
- Shaun Halper, a Jewish historian and post-doctoral associate at Yale University
For more:
The killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla is part of a spike in hate crimes against South Asians: https://t.co/hKvWNPd9oC by @SangayMishra
— SPLC (@splcenter) March 9, 2017
NYPD Links Hate Crimes Increase to 2016 Presidential Campaign https://t.co/TL94hYUMgv
— Raoul Roach (@rajoro) February 28, 2017
Note: At least 2,700 state and local police departments do not report hate crimes to the FBI, according to investigations by ProPublica and the Associated Press. For example, the entire state of Hawaii does not report hate crimes, and in many states, only a fraction of jurisdictions report.