A senior Justice Department official wouldn’t say whether President Donald Trump shouldered any blame for the recent alarming rise in religious hate crimes, even as Democratic senators prodded and pushed him to do so.
Eric Treene, special counsel for religious discrimination in the department’s civil rights division, repeatedly dodged questions during a Senate judiciary hearing.
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) grew especially impatient with Treene’s testimony.
Franken acknowledged that the president has condemned hate on two occasions. But he added that the White House, “either through missteps or associations with controversial figures ... fails to speak clearly in opposition to bias and hate. Far too often the White House sends mixed messages.”
Hate crimes
rose 7 percent across the U.S. in 2015, according to the latest available FBI data. Tuesday’s hearing was convened to address a startling rise in religious hate crimes, namely those targeting Jews, Muslims and people perceived to be Muslim.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, hate incidents targeting Jews increased by 33 percent in 2016 compared to the year before. The group also says anti-Semitic hate incidents rose 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same quarter in 2016.
There was a
67 percent rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2015, according to the FBI. HuffPost
tracked about 400 incidents of anti-Muslim hate in 2016, the same year a Southern Poverty Law Center report said the number of anti-Muslim hate groups in the U.S.
tripled.
“It’s no accident that there is a rise in hate crimes because we’re in an environment where the president targets Muslims with his language,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said during Tuesday’s hearing.
There was an
87.5 percent increase in hate crimes against Muslims in the days directly following
Trump’s initial proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
About a year later, the SPLC
tracked over 1,000 bias incidents in the month after Trump won the presidential election. A perpetrator invoked Trump, his campaign slogans or his remarks about sexual assault in 37 percent of those incidents.
HuffPost also
documented at least 13 times Trump supporters harassed, attacked or plotted to kill Muslims.
There's no question that having Trump in office is a direct cause of the rise in hate crimes and violence from the right. But how far will right wing violence escalate? What exactly do these pieces of shit want?
DOJ Official Dodges Questions On Trump's Role In Hate Crime Surge | HuffPost
Here you go...actual hate crimes...
Violence Breaks Out at Pro-Trump Rally in Huntington Beach
Violence erupted at a Make America Great Again rally at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach on Saturday,
video and photos from the scene showed.
The fights started about an hour into the demonstration leading to the arrest of four people. Three were arrested in connection with illegal use of pepper spray and one person was arrested on suspicion of assault, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department.
A counter-protester who was wearing a black mask, allegedly pepper-sprayed a woman and one of the organizers of the event after being hit, apparently sparking the violence.
"That guy over there walked up and pepper-sprayed my wife from two feet away who's a non-violent walker out here to be proud of our country," said Travis Guenther, a Trump supporter.
"You want to have punks like this come up. What's more American us out here displaying our freedom of speech rights, or that little punk over there spraying people in the face with mace."
Punches were thrown while people scuffled in the sand while holding mega phones and flags,
video showed. Demonstrators chanted "USA" and "America First" as the crowd grew.
"It's unreal. It's unreal. I wasn't expecting anything," said Steele Vaz, a Trump supporter. "I was trying to stop things, trying to keep the peace, but they just started spraying and hitting."
The man in the mask was then tackled by a group of Trump supporters and he was punched and kicked,
the Los Angeles Times reported.
ARe these violent attackers being paid by obama's new political action group or directly by the DNC as they were during the election...the democrat media, if they were actually journalists would have discovered this by now if the attackers were Trump supporters.....but because they are democrat party brown shirt fascists....the democrats in the press don't care....
Here is what they did during the election....bob craemer and scot foval actually paid these guys to go to Trump rallies to start violence...they admitted it on video...and admitted that they were paid, and directed by the DNC and the hilary campaign...
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Charles Murray attacked....
A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury
Radio host Mike Savage attacked...
Radio host Savage says he was attacked outside Tiburon restaurant
Riot at Milo rallies....
Physical Violence, Injuries at Anti-MILO Riots at UC Berkeley - Breitbart
Woman Trump supporter sprayed in face with pepper spray at Milo Speech...
Female Trump Supporter Pepper-Sprayed By Berkeley Rioter During TV Interview [VIDEO]
elderly woman hit with a chair by hilary supporter, sent to hospital...
PA Police: Hillary Fan Bashed Elderly Woman's Head with Chair During Election Argument - Breitbart
An argument over the recent election ended with one Donora, Pennsylvania, supporter of Hillary Clinton charged with assault after hitting a 69-year-old woman over the head with a chair, according to police.
Matthew Pugh, 27, was arrested on November 30 on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, and reckless endangerment, after allegedly attacking the elderly woman in the lobby of a high rise,
according to the Observer-Reporter.
Police say that Clinton supporter Pugh and the woman were discussing the recent election in the lobby of the building back on November 20 when the woman either spoke against Hillary or made a favorable comment about Trump, sending the younger man into a rage.
He allegedly picked up a chair and hit the old woman in the head, opening a gash in her forehead. Pugh was said to have knocked the woman to the floor, and she suffered additional injuries in the fall.
Officials report that both the elderly woman and her attacker were taken to Monongahela Valley Hospital for treatment of injuries suffered in the fight.
Republican headquarters firebombed.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/u...bombed-gop-office-in-north-carolina.html?_r=0
Trump supporter chased and beaten because he wore Trump Hat...
Black Lives Matter Mob Chases, Beats Man Wearing Trump Hat
---Trump supporter shot in the leg...
Paul Jones, Trump supporter, shot at Cleveland bar during heated political debate
---Trump supporter hit with crow bar....
Man Attacked With Crowbar Over Donald Trump T-Shirt: Cops
---Female Trump supporter hit with eggs and bottle....
Female Trump Supporter Hit With Eggs, Bottles as California Protest Turns Violent — See What Was Caught on Video
SAN JOSE, Calif. (TheBlaze/AP) — A few hundred protesters are blocking traffic and some are scuffling with supporters of Donald Trump after the presidential candidate’s rally in San Jose, California.
Police were keeping their distance and not getting involved with the protesters marching in the streets outside of San Jose Convention Center on Thursday night.
One woman, a Trump supporter, was surrounded by protesters who allegedly threw eggs and bottles at her head,BuzzFeed reported.
---Moron democrats stop Trump rally in chicago..
Inside the Protest That Stopped the Trump Rally
--left wing socialist, a democrat supporter, tries to murder Trump...
Source: Man who grabbed gun wanted to kill Trump - CNN Video
---left wing democrats shut down Arizona highway to Trump rally....
'Shut Down Trump': Protesters Shut Down AZ Highway to Rally
--democrats punch Trump supporters at same rally where they threw eggs and bottles at the woman....
Punches, eggs thrown as protesters attack Trump supporters outside San Jose rally
Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in downtown San Jose spun out of control Thursday night when some demonstrators attacked the candidate's supporters.
Protesters jumped on cars, pelted Trump supporters with eggs and water balloons, snatched signs, and stole "Make America Great" hats off supporters' heads before burning them and snapping selfies with the charred remains.
Several people were caught on camera punching Trump supporters. At least one attacker was arrested, according to CNN, although police did not release much information.
---democrat mob attacks Trump motorcade and supporters....
Mainstream media ignores anti-Trump mob in Minneapolis | Fox News
A violent mob terrorized Donald Trump donors but the Mainstream Media ignored the story. It happened Friday night at a fundraiser held at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Some of Trump’s supporters were punched and spat upon, The Hill reports. Others were pelted by garbage and taunted by the angry mob.
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The vicious thugs actually attacked elderly women. What kind of a lowlife does something like that?