Governor Ferguson to sign hate crash bill in the Olympics and clarify criminal offenses

Olympia, Washington – the governor of Washington, Bob Ferguson, will sign a bill on Monday that illustrates the definition of hate crimes in the state.

EHB in 1052, which was passed by the legislator on April 18, states that a person of a hate criminal is guilty if they commit certain actions that are guilty of the breed, color, religion, origin, national origin, sexual orientation, expression or identity of gender or mental or mental or sensory disability.

These actions include bodily harm, damage to property or threats that cause a reasonable person to fear damage.

According to the new legislation, specific measures such as the burning of a cross, the behavior of property with Nazis symbols or the application of a loop can be used to the property of a person in order to indicate the intention to prosecute hate crimes.

However, words alone are not hate crimes, unless they clearly indicate a threat, said the language in the law.

The invoice also makes it clear that it is not a defense to claim a false belief in the victim's identity in hate crashes. In addition, the punishments for hate crimes do not prevent other legal remedies.

According to the report of the State House, the bill is necessary to ensure fairness and accountability in cases of hate crimes by helping the jury better understand the motifs behind hate crimes.

In the report, however, the opponents argued that the draft law against the freedom of thinking could violate and lead to unjust assumptions about the motives of the accused.

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