Mass. hate crime hot line fields 400 complaints in just over a week
In West Springfield, a Puerto Rican couple allegedly had the words “go home” keyed into their car. In Milford, neighborhoods were blanketed with The Crusader — the newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan.
A black woman and her child driving through Randolph were nearly run off the road by a white couple yelling, “Go back to where you came from!” At Attleboro High School, graffiti that used a racial slur and praised the KKK allegedly appeared on the walls of a student bathroom.
Those are just a few of the incidents that officials say have been reported to the state attorney general’s new hate crime hot line. Altogether, more than 400 calls have been received since it was launched last week.
Officials from Attorney General Maura Healey’s office said complaints of bullying, threats, vandalism, and harassment have been made based on race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation.
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