Hate crimes: context and culture

This week, on The Hard Truth, we will be discussing hate crimes. Most people understand that these cases involve civil rights violations. However, they are also criminal violations — motivated by hostility, intolerance, or other prejudice towards a victim’s race, religion creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability. We will talk about the law, the evidence, and what happens when false reporting is suspected. Nothing is of limits