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"I am saddened but not surprised by these numbers," said Melissa Pope, Triangle's director of victim services, at Tuesday's press conference in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in downtown Detroit. "Hate violence is unlike any other crime in America. Most crime is motivated by personal gain, but hate violence is different. Hate violence is purely about victimizing a person because of who they are. It is a form of terrorism that punishes entire communities."
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State Anti-Gay Hate Crimes On the Rise
DETROIT - Hate crimes in Michigan more than doubled in 2007 from the previous year's total, according to a report released Tuesday by the Triangle Foundation. The annual report, compiled with the cooperation of the National Co...
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