African American Hate Crime

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Throughout U.S. history a significant amount of all murders and assaults has been cause of hatred. Today in some places of the world people that are African Americans are describe as the first hate crime victims. Even though in America a hate crime is considered to be an illegal act against a person. It is still been a big social problem, it is either with racist cops (which I will get into soon) or racist people in general. Recently there has been countless video of racist cops encounters with black people a most recent popular one is the Sandra Bland case in which she was approached by a cop for a minor traffic stop in which ended up in conflict between the both that was recorded by the officer's dashcam. The Officer was later then placed

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