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Justin Wise | July 11, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT U.S. attorneys led federal investigations of over 1,800 hate crime suspects between October 2004 and September 2019; however, they ultimately declined to prosecute the vast majority of them, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice s Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Published on Thursday, the report covers U.S. attorneys investigations and prosecutions against suspects accused of violating five federal hate crime statutes over a 15-year window. Of the 1,864 suspects, federal officials declined to prosecute 82%, showing the evidentiary challenges attorneys can sometimes face in proving bias motives, experts told Law360. One percent of cases were resolved by U.S. magistrates and 17% were prosecuted.
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Tempers flare amongst family members after police were involved in a standoff with a man who fired shots at residents and at a KSAT television crew who were on the scene to follow up on an overnight fire incident on Monday, July 5, 2021. The man fled from the scene at the 200 block of Noria and police then surrounded him at another home on the 300 block of Noria. The suspect was killed during a shootout with five police officers during the standoff.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer