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'hate crime'

Senate committee OKs letting school employees defend themselves from violent students, tables effort to protect trans people from being murdered

Senators OK self defense for bus drivers and lunch ladies and a ban on drones for sex offenders, but stall on preventing murderers of transgender people from invoking a "panic defense."
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Sham 'hate crime' bill heads to House floor after Committee Chair Carol Dalby refuses roll call

Democracy ignored as House committee crams down a sham hate crime bill.
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Joyce Elliott runs the real hate crime bill and it fails to advance

The bill failed once again despite long emotional testimony.

ADL urges defeat of 'disingenuous, check box' hate crimes bill

ADL calls for defeat of hate crime bill. Agreed, but keep dreaming.
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Senate committee rushes out substitute 'hate' crime bill. Missing: Support from anybody but old white male legislators.

Of course the toothless sham "hate crimes" bill got pushed out of Senate committee in a hurry today. It won't change any reality on the ground in this state.

Bentonville fire captain charged with assault of Asian man

A man's Asian appearance cited in Hot Springs assault and a charge against Bentonville fire captain.
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Police hit by vandalism in Little Rock and North Little Rock; LR chief vows to use hate crimes ordinance

Little Rock police report vandalism and promise felony prosecution. Vandals also damaged four North Little Rock vehicles, resulting in a total loss of one.

Governor, attorney general and legislators reveal hate crime proposal. Good and it won't be easy. But don't overlook the broader legal discrimination that remains

Arkansas is overdue for a hate crimes law, but its backers include people who've helped limit broader rights for LGBTQ people.
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Hate crimes on agenda in Little Rock and Hot Springs; Little Rock also taking up expansion of street drinking

Hate crime proposals are on the agenda in both Little Rock and Hot Springs this week. Little Rock also has street drinking on its agendca.

Arkansas connection leads to evidence in potential Tennessee hate crime

A Murfreesboro, Tenn., newspaper reports a purported Arkansas white supremacist connection led authorities to find a letter a Tennessee jail inmate had written saying he'd doused a black man with lighter fluid and burned him to death.
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Hate crime statute upheld in Arkansas case

The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today upheld the conviction of Frankie Maybee, convicted of joining in harassment of Latinos at an Alpena convenience store in June 2010 and eventually causing a wreck that injured five men.

Green Forest men sentenced for hate crime

Federal Judge Jimm Hendren, sitting in Harrison, today sentenced Frankie Maybee and Sean Popejoy to years in prison for their conviction of federal hate crime.
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