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August 8, 2009

YOUNG VOICES

Are Attacks on the Homeless Hate Crimes?
by Jeremy Freed


 

A recent New York Times article pointed to a rising trend of attacks on homeless people in America, and indicated that several states were considering legislation to classify these attacks as hate crimes.

This seems like it has been a long time coming, and with the rise of homelessness in the current recession, perhaps it is an issue that can no longer be ignored.

Any way you slice it, attacking a homeless person is a barbaric thing to do. The homeless are indeed an easily identifiable minority group, and a particularly helpless one at that. Should assaulting a homeless person be classified as a hate crime?

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Published August 8, 2009

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