Did Indiana remove race and LGBT people from ‘hate crimes’ bill?

February 21, 2019 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, NEWS, POLICIES, US NEWS Comments Off on Did Indiana remove race and LGBT people from ‘hate crimes’ bill?
Someone painted Nazi symbols on a garbage bin shed at Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Indiana. It cannot be prosecuted as a hate crime because the state has no hate crime legislation. (Image: Screenshot/YouTube)

The Indiana Senate voted to remove all categories from the state’s proposed hate crimes legislation despite numerous hate crimes in the state over the past few years. Indiana is one of five states without any hate crimes legislation at all.