Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

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The La Opinion article by Antonieta Cadiz claiming that California is hate crime central seems to be inspired from this 11-22-10 AP article by Peter Yost, some of the La Opinion version appears to me to be plagiarized from Yost. I originally read it in the 11-23-10 Orange County Register.

FBI: Hate crime incidents, victim numbers down

...On balance, "we welcome the fact that the FBI's report contains both the lowest hate crime totals since 1994 and the largest number of reporting law enforcement agencies ever," ADL national chair Robert Sugarman and ADL national director Abraham Foxman said.

The report said that out of some 4,000 victims of racial bias, seven in 10 were victims because of prejudice against blacks.

Out of nearly 1,600 victims of anti-religious bias, about the same proportion — seven of 10 — stemmed from anti-Jewish bias.

In a separate study, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that homosexuals are far more likely to be victims of violent hate crime than any other minority group.

Timing the release of its study to coincide with the latest FBI report on hate crimes, the nonprofit center said it based its conclusion on 14 years of FBI hate crime data covering 1995-2008. The center said that homosexuals, or those perceived to be gay, are more than twice as likely to be attacked in a violent hate crime as Jews or blacks; more than four times as likely as Muslims; and 14 times as likely as Latinos. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...46f7790a611ca3