Original title: hate crimes in the United States rose to 8305 last year, the highest since 9 / 11
On March 27 this year, Asian anti discrimination marches broke out in many places in the United States.
Overseas network, September 12 (Xinhua) US media reported that Ohio said it had sent hate crime statistics for 2020 to the FBI, raising the number of hate crimes that year to 8305, the third highest record in the past 30 years and the highest since September 11, 2001.
According to the Washington Post on the 11th local time, when all States in the United States successively submitted hate crime data to the FBI this year, the number of hate crimes in Ohio was only 34; New data from Russia now show that the number of hate crimes last year was as high as 580. The data supplement shows that there were 8305 hate crimes in the United States in 2020, 14% more than 2019, which is the third highest record in 30 years since the FBI began to collect relevant data. According to the newly submitted data, the number of attacks against people of African descent increased from 92 to 129, an increase of 43%; The number of attacks against Asians was reduced from 11 to 10; Attacks against whites increased from 59 to 104.
Novel coronavirus pneumonia, African American resistance campaign and general election turmoil were all intertwined, reports said. U.S. attorney general Merrick garland said in August that the fear of hate crimes shrouded among communities and neighbors across the country is a destruction of American democracy. These figures may even be underestimated. The civil rights organization stop AAPI hate reported that between March 2020 and March 2021, there were more than 6603 hate incidents against Asians alone, and more than 65% were verbal abuse.
The September 11 incident in 2001 brought the number of hate crimes that year to 9730, the highest on record. At that time, attacks against Muslims and their businesses increased from 28 in 2000 to 481, more than 16 times. 1996 was the second highest year for hate crimes in the United States. There were 8759 hate crimes in the United States that year. (overseas network Hou Xingchuan)
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