Our View: Lawmakers can toughen Minnesota's hate crime statutes
From the editorial: "Unfortunately, an even tougher stand is necessary to protect those victimized just because of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality or other immutable characteristics."
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News Tribune Editorial Board |
11:00 am, Apr. 1, 2021
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A group of Asian women from the Twin Ports, committed to advocacy and engagement, wrote in a commentary in the News Tribune this past weekend that no, they are “not OK right now.”
Not after years of upwardly trending hate-crime reports, as documented in November by the FBI. Not after a year of record-breaking violence reported against Asian Americans, as a national report in February detailed. And certainly not after the shootings in Atlanta on March 26 that killed six women of Asian descent.