HOW AN EAGER DA TRANSFORMED A NEIGHBORHOOD SPAT INTO A
HEADLINE-GRABBING HATE CRIME.THE HATING GAME WHEN THE ARONSONS TALKED, THE JEFFCO DA LISTENED. BIG MISTAKE.
Angie Zapata
Colorado saw a slight increase in the number of bias-motivated incidents against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in 2008, according to a report released today by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.
The report measures the number of incidents reported to the affiliated Colorado Anti-Violence Program. That number rose from 118 in 2007 to 121 in 2008, the report says. Of those, only 25 were also reported to the police.
Among them was the murder of Angie
This past weekend the largest gay-rights demonstration in close to a decade descended on Washington, D.C., where lawmakers may finally approve the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a measure that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the categories covered by federal hate crime legislation. (Rather than the stand-alone measure approved by the House, though, the Senate opted for making it an amendment to the defense appropriations bill -- a maneuv
