49 hate crime charges were brought in one Pennsylvania county in 2 years — but only one led to a conviction

Of the nearly 50 hate crime charges brought in Alleghany County in 2016-2017, only one led to a conviction — a move legal analysts say sends the wrong messages to racist perpetrators. Pittsburgh’s PublicSource reported that the one convicted hate crime in the county involved an out-of-state attendee at a “furry” convention allegedly screaming racial […]

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