After Dylann Roof shooting, hate-crime rates are soaring because of fake news

When looking at the data, it becomes immediately clear that spikes in hate crimes and racial tension haven’t only impacted black communities, like the Episcopal Church. There were at least 1,314 reported cases of anti-Muslim bias in 2014, according to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report. By 2016, that annual figure soared to 2,213.

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Anti-Semitic incidents also rose in 2015, the latest year the Anti-Defamation League has data on, rising three percent to 941 total incidents nationwide.

Of all the hate crimes carried out that year, over 48 percent were committed by whites.

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