Hate Crimes in Nebraska

1.         The population reported in Nebraska is 1,478,313 with the total number of incidents reported being 36.

2.         The state of Nebraska covers everything except the training for law enforcement personnel.  Meaning that, as a list, it covers bias-motivated violence and intimidation, civil action (including rave, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability, and "other" [age]), institutional vandalism, and data collection.

3.         There are three sections against hate crime that sum up how it is handled in Nebraska.  The three are 28-110, 28-111, and 28-114, all put into effect 2010.  Basically, it states that one has a right to live free from violence, threats of violence, vandalism or destruction, or threats of vandalism or destruction because of numerous traits including race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.  If one does do such an act, commit violence, vandalize, destroy, threaten, etc., then additional penalties may incur unless their offense is already punishable as a Class IB felony or higher.  The right to live free of violence among other things, and the additional punishments refer to 28-110 and 28-111 respectively.  The last, 28-114, simply says that Nebraska collects data and keeps records of such crimes.

Interestingly enough, however, this reference said that there was no statute regarding institutional vandalism, whereas the site in question two said that it was covered.  I briefly searched a few times in Google and checked the top links that came up, but I found nothing to support there being a statute for institutional vandalism in Nebraska.

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5.         This case happened to turn into a very complex case.  It covered the vast majority of the first few pages of Google after trying to find hate crimes in Nebraska.  A woman, Charlie Rogers, 33, who was openly gay said that she was attacked in her home in July 2012.  She said that three masked men had held her down, stripped her, tied her up, and carved antigay words into her skin before trying and failing to burn her house down.  She had escaped and gotten to her neighbors house where 911 was called and investigations started.  This, however, led to them finding inconsistencies with Rogers' story.  Her bed, where she said she was cut on, held no blood, and there were no signs of a forced entry or a struggle.  Pictures of her wounds led experts to believe that the wounds were self-inflicted.  In addition, materials for the hate crime were purchased five days before from a store that Rogers frequented.  Rogers was arrested and charged for false reporting, but she pleaded not guilty and was released.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/nebraska-lesbian-mutilated-anti-gay-hate-crime/story?id=16846781

http://www.advocate.com/crime/2012/07/24/investigation-continues-brutal-nebraska-hate-crime

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/21/justice/nebraska-hate-crime

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/21/13397580-lesbian-who-alleged-nebraska-hate-crime-charged-with-lying-about-attack?lite

6.         One of the first things to pop up when searching for movies about hate crimes was one very aptly named: Hate Crime (2005).  The story centers upon a gay couple that moves to a new neighborhood where they are not welcomed in the kindest of matters.  In particular, when their neighbor's son goes missing, the two are blamed for his disappearance and they must prove their innocence.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415833/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

            While searching for books about hate crimes, yet another movie popped up near the beginning.  This one too, for better or for worse, was titled Hate Crime (2012), but with a different kind of hate crime than the previous one.  This one focused on a Jewish family who was celebrating their youngest son's birthday when three masked men with Nazi armbands storm into their house.

http://horrorhappyhour.com/?p=17024