Obama Administration: Eric Tucker and Law Enforcement

obama administration: Lynch spoke at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center as law enforcement across the country confronts a spike in hate crimes targeting Muslims, according to Toronto Star. Her speech at an interfaith gathering in the waning weeks of the Obama administration was intended to reaffirm the Justice Department commitment to safeguarding civil rights and protecting racial and religious minorities. The Associated Press By Eric Tucker Associated Press Tues., Dec. 13, 2016 STERLING, VA. Hate crimes tear at the fabric of American communities and represent a stain on the country soul, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a mosque and Muslim community centre on Monday. But she also acknowledged concerns from minorities that divisive rhetoric and a new administration could lead to an erosion of some of the progress she said had been made in the last eight years. Overall hate crimes rose by 6 per cent last year. Recently released FBI statistics show that the number of hate crimes targeting Muslims that were reported to law enforcement rose by 67 per cent in 2015, to the largest number since the year of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.