USA: Hate Crimes Bill signed and passed

USA, 2 November 2009: Liberal Online news source, the Huffington Post is celebrating the passing of the US’s new and expanded Anti-Hate Crimes bill:  “The provision, called the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is attached to a defense authorization bill. It is named after Matthew Shepard, a gay college student tortured and killed in 1998, and James Byrd Jr., a black man who was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death the same year.”

CNN talked to the mother of another young man killed by hate crime, while Aflicio.org celebrated the fact that prosecution will now be be much easier to secure for survivors and victims of hate.