Hate crimes in the U.S. rose to the highest level in more than a decade as federal officials also recorded the highest number of hate-motivated killings since the FBI began collecting that data in the early 1990s, according to an FBI report released Monday.
The number of reported hate crimes and victims decreased last year in California, although the number of suspects increased, the state’s attorney general reported Tuesday.
Hate crime events fell
Hate crime in Los Angeles County rose 32 percent between 2013 and 2017, according to the county’s Commission on Human Relations.
Experts discussed local, state and national hate crime
Last August, a black man and his Latino boyfriend were holding hands while walking in West Los Angeles when suspects in a passing car shouted a homophobic slur at them,
