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There Are No Soft Hate Crimes

A poetic response to a white woman in Connecticut getting probation for spitting on a BLM activist

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Donney Rose
Jul 23, 2021
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HARTFORD, Conn. — A white woman who was charged with a hate crime after being caught on video spitting on a Black woman during a protest in Connecticut was allowed to enter a special probation program Wednesday that could leave her with no criminal record.

Yuliya Gilshteyn, 45, was granted accelerated …

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