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Monday was a busy day news-wise at Cal State San Bernardino.
First was the student-organized demonstration against the Nov. 8 election of Donald Trump as president.
Marching with with the students, Karen Kolehmainen, a professor of physics and chair of the CSUSB Faculty Senate, told a KABC reporter: “I’m very upset Donald Trump was elected. I just want to show solidarity with undocumented students, with people of color, with all of the people that Trump has criticized and denigrated.”
The video of the protest can be viewed online at “Los Angeles students hold walkout, call for unity post election.” The video itself is embedded towards the bottom of that web page.
Also on Monday, the FBI released its annual crime report that showed incidents targeting Muslims jumping 67 percent. To help make sense of the statistics, the news media turned to Brian Levin, director of the CSUSB Center for the study of Hate and Extremism and a professor of criminal justice.
Fox Network commentator Bill O’Reilly had Levin appear on his show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” on Monday. Media Matters for America posted the video and a partial transcript of the lively debate between the two at “O’Reilly rejects FBI findings of increase in hate crimes, describes the number as ‘infinitesimal.’”
Other articles related to the FBI crime report included:
- “Hate crimes against Muslims hit highest mark since 2001,” in The (Philadelphia) Inquirer, which was originally written by The Washington Post and picked up by other online news sites;
- FBI hate-crime report sees 67 percent surge in attacks on Muslims,” in the Boston Herald, which was originally written by the McClatchy News Service;
- “Hate crimes against Muslims rose by 67 percent last year, says FBI,” in the Christian Science Monitor;
- “FBI reports hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67 percent in 2015,” in The Guardian (U.K.); and
- “FBI: Hate crimes against minorities increased in 2015,” in the Inland News Today.
Levin was also quoted in articles about hate crimes in general increasing after the Nov. 8 election:
- “Are we in an age of intolerance?” in the Boston Globe; and
- “Hate crimes surge after Trump victory,” in the New Delhi Times.