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Arkansas governor, lawmakers unveil hate crimes proposal

by Associated Press
| August 19, 2020 9:03 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' Republican governor, attorney general and a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that would impose harsher penalties for crimes motivated by the victim's race, ethnicity or sexual orientation, an effort that would end the state's distinction as one of three without a hate crimes law.

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