Attorney General Frosh launches Maryland hate crime hotline

The office of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has received a dozen reports of hate speech in the week since he asked people to report such incidents.

Frosh launched the hate speech hotline this month after several incidents were reported following the election of Donald Trump. He warned that "Maryland is not immune" to a national "outbreak" of hate incidents targeting racial minorities, Muslims, Jews, immigrants and LGBT people.

The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 701 incidents of "hateful harassment" across the country in the week after Election Day. The organization counted 27 anti-Trump incidents in the same period.

In Maryland, there have been reports of harassment and bullying at schools. A church in Silver Spring that displayed a banner advertising Spanish-language services was vandalized with graffiti that read "white power" and "Trump nation."

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