He feels grateful to the police — but also he wants to know that future hate crimes will be reported. Also helping with compliance is a state law under which law enforcement agencies can lose funds for failing to file. Despite the circumstances, the case was never counted in the nation's annual tally of hate crimes. State officials have been compiling their own hate crimes report with information collected from local prosecutors rather than police, but the state will be switching to a new police filing system with hate crimes reporting built into it. For Hicks Collins, the failure to count the 2012 attack as a hate crime is a painful reminder of the continuing struggle for racial progress.

Source: Fox News June 05, 2016 04:52 UTC