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South Yorkshire Police have doubled down in response to backlash over ‘Orwellian’ tweets urging people to report “non-crime hate incidents”, stating that “offensive” online comments “re-emphasises the need” for officers to “tackle hate”.

The UK police department on whose watch 1,400 girls were raped by Muslim gangs in just one town alone has tweeted out a message urging the public to report “non-crime hate incidents”.

A Catholic priest who was brutally beaten in his church reported his unidentified attacker said, “This is for all the kids,” before he beat him until he was unconscious.

A prominent statue of the Virgin Mary was vandalized early Friday morning in Santa Monica, California. The statue, which stands at the corner of 7th Street and California Avenue, was tagged with yellow graffiti between the hours of 1:00 and

Half of all robberies and thefts taking place in England and Wales happened in London, Office for National Statistics figures revealed.

The policing watchdog has claimed that Britain leaving the European Union next year will trigger a rise in “hate crimes”, and that officers should be responding to any report of a hate crime within one hour of reporting.

Police are investigating a report of vandalism after someone found the words “Hail Satan” carved into the front porch of a South Carolina Baptist church.

Ten people have been detained by German police in the wake of an alleged anti-Semitic attack in a Berlin park, with local media reporting all involved are Syrian migrants.

A Virginia grand jury indicted 21-year-old James Alex Fields Jr. with federal hate crimes in the death of Heather Heyer.

Vandals defaced a Jewish cemetery in a El, Paso, Texas, over the weekend. They spray painted and tagged grave sites with anti-Semitic images including swastikas and references to Adolf Hitler, say authorities.

Three migrants from Palestine and Syria have been convicted for attempted arson after attacking a synagogue in Sweden, following the announcement the U.S. embassy in Israel would move to Jerusalem.

Britain’s prison population is at its lowest in eight years thanks to new government rules which have boosted early releases by more than 50 percent in the last six months.

A teenager has suffered life-changing injuries after he was run over and beaten to the head with a crowbar and golf club in a “horrendous” attack that police are investigating as a racially-motivated hate crime.

If you’ve seen The Lives of Others, the Oscar-winning movie set in Communist East Germany, you’ll know how constrictive and oppressive it was living in a surveillance state where the authorities monitored your every move.

A murderer who shouted “f*cking Irish c*nt” as he wielded two knives to stab an Irishman and his sister, killing one, has been sentenced to 23 years.

Scottish YouTuber Markus Meechan, known as Count Dankula, has raised £100,000 in one day to fund his appeal against his conviction for posting a video of his girlfriend’s dog performing Nazi salutes.

Labour-controlled Hackney Borough Council is sending uniformed ‘Enforcement Officers’ to mosques to encourage them to report “hate crimes”.

Northumbria’s Police Commissioner has hired a team of 19 ‘hate crime advocates’ to educate officers on LGBT issues and the “needs” of sexual minorities.

As forces in Britain declare tackling so-called hate crime a “priority”, the police watchdog has released a report revealing officers are taking days to respond to emergency calls.

Tackling online hate crime in Scotland will be a “priority”, the nation’s police have announced, revealing that almost 1,000 files on children aged between 11 and 15 were created last year.

Shoplifting and reports of theft in shops have almost doubled in just twelve months, new figures show, with police blamed for ignoring physical crimes as they focus on “hate crime” and online comments.

People can be “charged” with an “offence” if their actions are within the law but their “reasons for doing it” are perceived as illegal hate by others, London police have said, before withdrawing the claim.

A 65-year-old woman in Sweden, who is facing either a fine or prison sentence if found guilty of hate crimes, released her side of the story in a YouTube video describing a large-scale investigation and harassment from police.

Crime figures released this week revealed that fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at the highest level since 2010-2011, while rapes at knifepoint rose by 23 per cent in the past year.

Hate crime figures leaked by police in Germany have caused alarm, as they revealed murder, assault, and arson numbering among almost 100 attacks which targeted Christians in 2017.

Police in Toronto, Ontario, say that an 11-year-old Muslim girl, who claimed attackers tried to cut off her hijab, lied about the attack.

Another worldwide brouhaha over an “anti-Muslim hate crime” — and then the subsequent media silence after it is exposed as a fake incident.

Northumbria Police have warned that “offensive” comments on the Internet will not be tolerated, tracking down users who made ‘potentially criminal’ posts on social media about South Asian grooming gangs.

A Texas man, convicted of using a social media dating app to purposely target and assault gay men, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by federal authorities.

London’s Metropolitan Police force will not bother to investigate crimes if officers are required to watch CCTV for more than 20 minutes or there is no footage available.

A white woman who stopped in a Bronx deli for a sandwich was accused of being a supporter of President Donald Trump, then attacked and robbed by two teenagers, a report says.

A Florida man convicted of a hate crime for leaving bacon in a mosque and breaking the mosque’s windows has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The U.S. Navy has confirmed that a black sailor who claimed his bunk was vandalized aboard a Navy warship faked the incident to create an Internet hoax.

Wolf-whistling and making comments perceived as sexist could become hate crimes in London, police have said.

Democrat fundraiser Matthew Lieberman was charged with multiple felonies after allegedly pointing a gun at someone and yelling “racial slurs.”

A minority Islamic sect has brought in airport-style security at its mosques in the UK as the Metropolitan Police investigates death threats sent to the community by Muslims.