(A) the August 5, 2012, mass shooting at 
a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 
which a White supremacist shot and killed 6 
members of the gurdwara; 
(B) the April 13, 2014, mass shooting at 
a Jewish community center and a Jewish as-
sisted living facility in Overland Park, Kansas, 
in which a neo-Nazi shot and killed 3 civilians, 
including a 14-year-old teenager; 
(C) the June 8, 2014, ambush in Las 
Vegas, Nevada, in which 2 supporters of the 
far-right-wing ‘‘patriot’’ movement shot and 
killed 2 police officers and a civilian; 
(D) the June 17, 2015, mass shooting at 
the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South 
Carolina, in which a White supremacist shot 
and killed 9 members of the church; 
(E) the November 27, 2015, mass shooting 
at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, in which an anti-abortion ex-
tremist shot and killed a police officer and 2 ci-
vilians; 
(F) the March 20, 2017, murder of an Af-
rican-American man in New York City, alleg-
edly committed by a White supremacist who re-
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portedly traveled to New York ‘‘for the purpose 
of killing black men’’; 
(G) the May 26, 2017, attack in Portland, 
Oregon, in which a White supremacist allegedly 
murdered 2 men and injured a third after the 
men defended 2 young women whom the indi-
vidual had targeted with anti-Muslim hate 
speech; 
(H) the August 12, 2017, attacks in Char-
lottesville, Virginia, in which— 
(i) a White supremacist killed one and 
injured nineteen after driving his car 
through a crowd of individuals protesting a 
neo-Nazi rally, and of which former Attor-
ney General Jeff Sessions said, ‘‘It does 
meet the definition of domestic terrorism 
in our statute.’’; and 
(ii) a group of 6 men linked to militia 
or White supremacist groups assaulted an 
African-American man who had been pro-
testing the neo-Nazi rally in a downtown 
parking garage; 
(I) the July 2018 murder of an African- 
American woman from Kansas City, Missouri, 
allegedly committed by a White supremacist 
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who reportedly bragged about being a member 
of the Ku Klux Klan; 
(J) the October 24, 2018, shooting in 
Jeffersontown, Kentucky, in which a White 
man allegedly murdered 2 African Americans at 
a grocery store after first attempting to enter 
a church with a predominantly African-Amer-
ican congregation during a service; 
(K) the October 27, 2018, mass shooting 
at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania, in which a White nationalist al-
legedly shot and killed 11 members of the con-
gregation; 
(L) the April 27, 2019, shooting at the 
Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, in 
which a man yelling anti-Semitic slurs allegedly 
killed a member of the congregation and 
wounded 3 others; 
(M) the August 3, 2019, mass shooting at 
a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in which a White 
supremacist with anti-immigrant views killed 22 
people and injured 26 others; 
(N) the December 10, 2019, shooting at a 
Kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, in which 2 men with anti-Semitic views 
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killed 3 people in the store and a law enforce-
ment officer in an earlier encounter; and 
(O) the December 28, 2019, machete at-
tack at a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, 
New York, in which a man who had expressed 
anti-Semitic views stabbed 5 individuals. 
(3) In November 2019, the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation released its annual hate crime incident 
report, which found that in 2018, violent hate crimes 
reached a 16-year high. Though the overall number 
of hate crimes decreased slightly after three consecu-
tive years of increases, the report found a 4-percent 
increase in aggravated assaults, a 15-percent in-
crease in simple assaults, and a 13-percent increase 
in intimidation. There was also a nearly 6-percent 
increase in hate crimes directed at LGBTQ individ-
uals and a 14-percent increase in hate crimes di-
rected at Hispanic and Latino individuals. Nearly 60 
percent of the religion-based hate crimes reported 
targeted American Jews and Jewish institutions. 
The previous year’s report found that in 2017, hate 
crimes increased by approximately 17 percent, in-
cluding a 23-percent increase in religion-based hate 
crimes, an 18-percent increase in race-based crimes, 
and a 5-percent increase in crimes directed against 
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LGBTQ individuals. The report analyzing 2016 data 
found that hate crimes increased by almost 5 per-
cent that year, including a 19-percent rise in hate 
crimes against American Muslims. Similarly, the re-
port analyzing 2015 data found that hate crimes in-
creased by 6 percent that year. Much of the 2015 
increase came from a 66-percent rise in attacks on 
American Muslims and a 9-percent rise in attacks 
on American Jews. In all 4 reports, race-based 
crimes were most numerous, and those crimes most 
often targeted African Americans. 
(4) On March 15, 2019, a White nationalist 
was arrested and charged with murder after alleg-
edly killing 50 Muslim worshippers and injuring 
more than 40 in a massacre at the Al Noor Mosque 
and Linwood Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. 
The alleged shooter posted a hate-filled, xenophobic 
manifesto that detailed his White nationalist ide-
ology before the massacre. Prime Minister Jacinda 
Ardern labeled the massacre a terrorist attack. 
(5) In January 2017, a right-wing extremist 
who had expressed anti-Muslim views was charged 
with murder for allegedly killing 6 people and injur-
ing 19 in a shooting rampage at a mosque in Quebec 
City, Canada. It was the first-ever mass shooting at 
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