We want a full-scale hate-crime investigation.
Quotes about hate-crime (5 Quotes)
Nobody out there can say that if the state passed a hate-crime law any crime would decrease. People who commit heinous crimes should be punished.
In a society where equal protection under the law is supposed to be the noble standard, there is no room to create different classes of victims. Hate-crime legislation places a different, government-assigned value on the life, liberty, and property rights of people based on their color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, physical ability, or whatever. . . It is not the role of the federal government to . . . protect me from hate.
There are certainly issues that keep people from pursuing hate-crime charges. It's a system that's fraught with challenges because of the under-reporting.
There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history.