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handle is hein.crs/crsmthmaokw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS Insights South Carolina Church Shooting and Hate Crime in the United States Lisa N. Sacco, Analyst in Illicit Drugs and Crime Policy (lsacco@_crslboy, 7-7359) Kristin Finklea, Specialist in Domestic Security (kfinnnklea@crs loc gov, 7-6259) June 18, 2015 (IN10297) Incident in South Carolina On June 17, 2015, a lone gunman shot and killed nine individuals in a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The suspect in police custody, Dylann Roof, is white, while the nine deceased victims are black. The 1TS Depatmen f Ji annnc it is initiating a hate crime investigation. Hate Crime in the United States As part of its Hate Crime Statistics Progm, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) collects data on criminal offenses that were motivated, in whole or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, and were committed against persons, property, or society. In 2013, law enfore h FBI that 3,407 single-bias hate crime offenses were racially motivated. Of these incidents, 66.4% were motivated by anti-black or anti-African American bias (see Tale1). Table 1. Hate Crimes in the United States (by race motivation, 2013) Hate Crimes: Bias Motivation Number of Offenses Percentage Total Hate Crimes 6,933 100.0% Single-Bias Incidentsa 6,921 99.8% Single-Bias Incidents Motivated by Race 3,407 49.1% Single-Bias Incidents Motivated by Race 3,407 100.0% Motivated by Anti-Black or African American Motivated by Anti-White 728 21.4o Motivated by Anti-Other RaceL 307 9.00% Motivated by Anti-Multiple Races, Group 109 3.2%o Source: Table created by Congressional Research Service using data from FBI, 2013 Hate Crime Statistics, Table 5, Dages/inciIden Vdofessincidetadfess:nl Notes: For more information on FBI, UCR data see https//www fbi gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate- crime/20 1 3/resurce-Dp~es/about-ucr/aboutucr final. a. This category excludes multiple-bias incidents in which (1) more than one offense type must occur in the incident and (2) at least two offense types must be motivated by different biases. b. Other Race includes Asian (158), American Indian or Alaska Native (146), and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (3). Federal Response to Hate Crime Current federal law defines hatecrime to include any crime against either person or property, in which the

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