It’s even led President-elect Donald Trump, whose aggressive campaign rhetoric emboldened some white supremacist groups, to respond to reports of hate crimes and harassment with a simple message: “Stop it.” (He repeated those words during his 60 Minutes interview with CBS’s Lesley Stahl, which aired Sunday).
Hate crimes can, and do, occur anywhere — Houstonians are certainly not immune.
News 88.7's Andrew Schneider talks with Mark Potok, a senior fellow from the Southern Poverty Law Center, about hate crimes. It's one of a number of conversations Andrew Schneider has had in recent weeks on the subject, which he'll report on in more detail in the coming days.
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