Reports of increasingly violent incidents are really astounding. What can we do to prevent another Matthew Shepard? Yeah, well, when we. So Since the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Hate Crimes Act, that act not only added sexual orientation, gender identity and disability status and gender to our hate crimes laws. but it made another very important expansion that affected all communities under our federal hate crimes laws, and that is to broaden the circumstances where the federal government could intervene when we saw such violence and such hate crimes occurring. (26:49–27:30)
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