hate crime
noun
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a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence.
If you witness or are a victim of a hate crime, report it here here.
Note that in Massachusetts a “hate crime” is an act that’s already a crime but has a hate element added to it. So painting a swastika on someone else’s property is a hate crime, but painting one on your own property is not. Speech, without a specific threat, is not a hate crime, no matter how offensive the speech is.
