Ayala: After 12 decades of waiting, lynching becomes federal hate crime
It defines lynching, which isn’t only hanging, as any conspiracy to commit a hate crime that results in death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse and attempted aggravated sexual abuse.
Byrd, a black Texan, was brutalized and dragged to his death in Jasper in 1998. That same year, Shepard, who was white and gay, was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyo.named for Emmett Till, a Black teen who was kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and killed in 1955. He was accused of whistling at a white woman.
The soldiers, Rangers and ranchers together killed 15 boys and men. It wasn’t just a crime of hate and racism but one of terrorism.of at least 20 Chinese Americans in Los Angeles’ Chinatown in 1871, accounting for 10 percent of that population at that time.The new law would cover what are called modern-day lynchings, such as the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in 2020, in which three white men stalked the young black man trying to run from them.
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