As per news report published in Reuters on November 29, 2016, "The number of hate and bias incidents reported across the United States spiked in the 10 days following Donald Trump's presidential election victory."
They followed an historic presidential campaign in which the New York real estate developer vowed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, promised to deport millions of unregistered immigrants and mulled restricting Muslim immigration.
Cohen called on the Republican to do more.
"What we'd like to see Mr. Trump do is acknowledge that his own words have fueled the outbreak of hate that we're seeing. He needs to take responsibility and stop pretending he's surprised," Cohen said in a phone interview as published in Reuters. "He needs to speak forcefully and repeatedly against bigotry."
The report found that close to one-third of the incidents that followed the Nov. 8 election represented anti-immigrant sentiments while about one in five were anti-black. Others targeted included lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, Muslims, Jews and women, while 23 incidents reflected anti-Trump feelings.
Data released in January by the FBI show there were 5,850 hate crime incidents nationally in 2015, up 6.8 percent from 5,479 in 2014.
(Report published in Reuters on Nov 29, 2016)
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