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Editorial: The rising tide of hate crimes can’t be ignored

On Oct. 15, 2023, Iman Negrete places two teddy bears outside the Plainfield Township home where police say landlord Joseph Czuba, 71, allegedly stabbed 6- year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume to death and seriously injured his mother, Hanaan Shahin, a day earlier because they were Muslim.

It’s hard to remember a time that has felt more tumultuous. We’ve barely arrived on the other side of a pandemic that both put the world on pause and divided our country. A band of mostly white hooligans swarmed our Capitol building, attempting to overthrow a legitimate presidential election on behalf of a man who now is charged with 91 felonies, and yet inexplicably has a chance of being reelected president next year.

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