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Tom Steyer on Crime
Democratic Presidential Challenger; CEO
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Focus on white supremacist violence as domestic terrorism
Extremism has been present in America for decades and sadly is on the rise because we have a racist white nationalist in the White House. Donald
Trump's rhetoric has radicalized his base and inspired a wave of violence. As president, I will direct more resources to monitor, investigate, and prosecute incidents of white supremacist violence and those who incite them as acts of domestic terrorism.
Source: USA Today on 2019 Democratic primary
, Nov 7, 2019
Transgendered hate crimes: unequivocally prosecute severely
Q: I started an advocacy organization for black transgender men like myself. Nineteen black transgender women were killed in the U.S. this year, largely due to a lack of protections and an extreme lack of prosecutions. What will you do to ensure that
the judicial system prioritizes penalizing crimes against transgender citizens as hate crimes?STEYER: There are citizens in our society who are being targeted for murder as a result of who they are. This is a straightforward attack on humanity
itself to kill somebody for who they are. That has got to be the definition of a hate crime. We have got to prosecute those as severely as possible, as a symbol of who we are, a symbol of the thing that we won't put up with. And every
prosecutor has got to know that, that this is something that goes to the heart of American equality and justice. And that's got to be straightforward, unequivocal, not a 99 percent rule, a 100 percent rule.
Source: CNN LGBT Town Hall
, Oct 10, 2019
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