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Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime After Posting Online Against ‘Hate’

Ashe Schow
Black Lives Matter Activist Charged With Anti-Asian Hate Crime After Posting Online Against ‘Hate’
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A Black Lives Matter activist who posted numerous messages online against “hate” and allegedly stood in solidarity with Asian-Americans after a gunman killed six Asian women in Alabama has been charged with a hate crime against three Asian-American women.

KTTH’s Jason Rantz reported that police have charged Christopher Hamner of Seattle with a hate crime stemming from two incidents in mid-March:

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