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(21,141 posts)Race, religion and sexual orientation hate crimes in all three of these catergoues in 2017.
After a 6 year decline starting in2015 hate crimes increased to double digits and from 2016 to 2017 they increased 17.4%.
This is a disturbing rise in hate crimes, said Nancy Appel, senior associate director of the Anti-Defamation Leagues Central Pacific Region. The numbers have been going up in recent years, but this is a significant increase across categories.
The Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, blamed the increase in hate crimes on President Trump, saying his remarks, in speeches and on Twitter, have made discrimination and hate acceptable.
This president has emboldened those who are perpetrators of hate with his rhetoric, his vulgarity and with his outright abusive language attacking people from Caribbean Islands and from Africa, he said. It begins
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Hate-crimes-on-the-upswing-in-California-13061474.php#photo-12828185
Ive seen white people here in San Francisco be hostile and give dirty looks to minorities. One man I busted and asked him if he starches the white hood he keeps in the closet. He looked at me and stomped off.