1、CRS InsightsSouth Carolina Church Shooting and Hate Crime in the United StatesLisa N. Sacco, Analyst in Illicit Drugs and Crime Policy (lsaccocrs.loc.gov, 7-7359)Kristin Finklea, Specialist in Domestic Security (kfinkleacrs.loc.gov, 7-6259)June 18, 2015 (IN10297)Incident in South CarolinaOn June 17,
2、 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 U.S. Department of Justice announced it is initiating a hate crime investigation.H
3、ate Crime in the United StatesAs part of its Hate Crime Statistics Program, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) collects data on criminal offenses that were motivated, in whole or in part, by the offenders bias against a race, gender, gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation,
4、or ethnicity, and were committed against persons, property, or society. In 2013, law enforcement agencies reported to the 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 Table 1).Table 1
