In a 2009 trial, DeLee was convicted of first-degree manslaughter as a hate crime, under New York State’s hate crime law, a law patterned after ADL's Model Law. The jury also found DeLee not guilty on a second count, which was described to the jury as including manslaughter "but not as a hate crime." DeLee's attorneys appealed the verdict, arguing that the two verdicts contradicted each other and that therefore the conviction should be reversed. The Appellate Division agreed and on a 4-1…
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December 16, 2012 Chief, Crime Statistics Management Unit Module E-# 1000 Custer Hollow Road Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306
The broad coalition of civil rights, religious, education, civic, and professional organizations below support efforts to collect separate data on hate crimes directed against Sikhs, Arabs, and Hindus as part of the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990 (HCSA) data collection programs. There is specific, demonstrated evidence that Sikh, Arab, and Hindu…
New York, NY, October 9, 2010 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at the violent, brutal torture of a gay man in the Bronx. Over a period of hours, the victim was reportedly stripped, whipped, burned and sodomized by a gang of nine attackers who lured him into an apartment after first assaulting two teenage boys.
Ron Meier, ADL New York Regional Director, issued the following statement:
The beating and torture of a gay man in the Bronx is a horrific hate…
November 30, 2004 Dear CJIS Advisory Policy Board Member: On behalf of the coalition of national civil rights, law enforcement, education, and religious organizations below that support hate crime education, awareness, and prevention initiatives in Congress, the federal agencies, and the states, we write to emphasize the importance of the FBI's efforts to collect and publish hate crime data from state and local law enforcement officials. We urge you to join us in strongly supporting…
In 1913, the Jewish community in the United States faced rampant antisemitism and overt discrimination. Books, plays and, above all, newspapers, depicted Jews with crude stereotypes. Against this backdrop of bigotry and intolerance, an attorney from Chicago named Sigmund Livingston, put forward a bold idea—to create an organization with a mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all…” The Anti-Defamation League…