The Christian Science Monitor

Kentucky advocacy group pushes first federal hate crime arrests

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with kidnapping a man and taking him to a state park in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, then severely beating him while yelling slurs about his sexual orientation. The FBI arrested 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and 19-year-old Alexis Leann Combs Jenkins of […]

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Feds step up enforcement of hate crimes in Central, Eastern Kentucky

BY BILL ESTEP – BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED FEBRUARY 24, 2012 8:25 PM To those who might consider attacking people because of their race or sexual orientation, U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey has a message: Don’t. “They need to understand that they’re playing with fire, that it won’t be tolerated,” Kerry said in an interview Friday. Harvey

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