Officials say hate crimes have now gone up since Donald Trump won the presidential election. In NYC there has been about 43 cases deemed hate crimes by the Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force since Election Day. This is double the number from last year. This is a 35% increase from last year.
Alot of the hatred was shown in graffiti. There were swastika’s drawn on a No. 1 train. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a statement,
“We do not allow intolerance or fear to divide us because we know diversity is our strength and we are at our best when we stand united.”
Afaf Nasher, the executive director of the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, released a statement saying,
“Mr. Trump’s rhetoric normalized hate, racism and xenophobia. These attacks are the unavoidable byproduct.”
This is crazy. How can one man bring so much damage to the country. Racism is slowly emerging upon us again and this man is the reason. Not saying that it left us, but now we see it alot more with him coming to office.
Source:NYTIMES
