What acts should be considered hate crime?

A hate crime is a criminal offense. Federal prosecution is possible for hate crimes committed based on a persons identity or of their derivatives. It is a legal category used to describe bias-motivated violence against minority groups, or between different groups of people. Incidents may involve physical and aggravating assault and battery, damage to property, racial discrimination or prejudice, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults and offensive graffiti or letters. Acts of violence against the poor could also be considered a hate crime. In addition, human history is filled with accounts of genocide and human rights violations, which are motivated, by the race, ethnical or equivalent group, philosophical beliefs or religion, sexual orientation and other aggravating circumstances of the victim. It is also possible to conceive hate crimes of other identities based on group affiliation, such as political party, occupation or social status. Criminal acts that could be considered hate crimes in various states also included murder by death squad, vandalism, rape and coercion by threats, arson and intimidation, trespassing and stalking. Now, always remember that a hate crime is a violence masquerading as political activism. Moreover, hate crime is a criminal offense. Thank you.

Tennie Joy D. Santiban