{"id":5231,"date":"2021-04-08T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2021-09-24T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:36:07","slug":"what-qualifies-as-a-hate-crime-and-why-are-they-so-difficult-to-prove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?p=5231","title":{"rendered":"What qualifies as a hate crime and why are they so difficult to prove?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 31, a White man allegedly threw rocks at an Asian American woman\u2019s car in Orange County, Calif. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/04\/06\/asian-hatecrime-rock-orange-county\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was charged with a hate crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days later, in Riverside, Calif., Ke Chieh Meng was stabbed to death while walking her dog. The woman accused of stabbing her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/04\/05\/meng-riverside-asianamerican-stabbing-montoya\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was not charged with a hate crime,&nbsp;<\/a>but the victim\u2019s family wonders whether she was targeted because of her race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes one incident a hate crime and the other not? It\u2019s a perplexing question for victims\u2019 families and allies. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/04\/08\/what-qualifies-hate-crime-why-are-they-so-difficult-prove\/\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 31, a White man allegedly threw rocks at an Asian American woman\u2019s car in Orange County, Calif. He&nbsp;was charged with a hate crime. A few days later, in Riverside, Calif., Ke Chieh Meng was stabbed to death while walking her dog. The woman accused of stabbing her&nbsp;was not charged with a hate crime,&nbsp;but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Edward Dunbar","author_link":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesagainsthate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}