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Wednesday 30 September 2020
Smollett was previously charged with lying to police but they were subsequently dropped.
Gardaí are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
The incident occurred just after 6.30pm yesterday evening.
SNP MP Hannah Bardell has said she considered the alleged utterance to be a “hate crime”.
The report was written as an alternative to previous hate crime reports submitted to the United Nations.
The incident took place in May this year.
The government said that it was looking at legislative options to address hate crime.
Strict new Covid-19 measures have been announced for the two counties – here’s what you need to know.
The Department of Justice is currently finalising research on legislative approaches to tackling hate crime in other countries.
The Department is putting out a public consultation in the coming weeks on the issue.
The Garda Commissioner said gardaí want to encourage victims to report these incidents to them.
The suspect wrote about the “Hispanic invasion” of Texas online.
The actor was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack this week.
The monument pays tribute to people from the area who died in World War I and World War II.
“I was the victim of a hate crime,” Gareth Thomas said.
Two men have been released on bail.
Footage of a group of people laughing while a model of the tragic tower burns has gone viral.
A new report identifies “serious gaps” in Ireland’s hate crime laws.
The upsetting attack comes a week after a video of a man shouting homophobic abuse outside Francis Timmons’s home was posted online.
President Trump denounced “evil” racism, bigotry and hatred during a speech today.
The PSNI hope to highlight the issue of hate crime through their attendance.
The woman had been shopping with her son.
The pair were attacked with acid while sitting in their car.
A man shouted anti-Muslim slurs at two girls, then stabbed the two men who intervened to death.
The victims sustained cuts and bruises as well as possible facial fractures in the attack.
Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.
Police said the teenager’s condition was “serious but stable and is not believed to be life-threatening.”
A 17-year-old boy sustained serious head injuries in the attack.
Lawrence Burns has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Recently, South Asians have been on edge after a deadly shooting in a suburban Kansas City bar that the FBI is investigating as a hate crime.
India has demanded the “strongest action” from the US government over the incident.
Evidence against Creighton included an image of Hitler posted online alongside the message “kill the Muslims”.
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
Four black suspects were charged with kidnapping and hate crimes over the assault of a mentally disabled white man.
“I think it’s a bad idea,” said the judge presiding over the case.
The 22-year-old shot nine black people dead in a racially-motivated attack in South Carolina last year.
One of them was called The Legacy of Operation Filthy Jew B***h.
The Fianna Fáil Bill aims to tackle crimes that are linked to race, sexual orientation or gender.
“The Czech government finds it unacceptable to see Czechs attacked because of their origin and being treated as second-class citizens.”
Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.
TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT – Joe Biden and Donald Trump will face off in an election debate in Cleveland.
Highly anticipated, many will see the debate as an opportunity for either candidate to claim a key advantage in what should be a closely-fought battle.
Likely to be combative, it’ll see Democrat candidate Biden tackle Trump on the economy and the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Of course, it’ll be the early hours of the morning by the time any of this airs – and even then, it’s not likely to be an entertainment event for the faint-hearted.
So today we want to know: Will you be watching the first US presidential debate live?
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