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144man
HATE CRIMES SOAR AFTER BREXIT VOTE
"Hate crimes soared by 41% in the immediate aftermath of June's EU referendum, with nearly 5,500 racially or religiously aggravated offences reported to police, new Home Office figures revealed today. The statistics show that the number of such offences - including assaults, verbal abuse and xenophobic graffiti - stayed above pre-vote levels in August, with about 4,500 further incidents that month, despite falling from its July peak."
[Evening Standard, London, October 13]
I have a bad feeling that this isn't going to end well...
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