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"Hate littering" could result in $1,000 fine under proposed Chicago ordinance
By Todd Feurer,
13 days ago
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Anyone caught distributing flyers containing hateful speech in Chicago could be hit with $1,000 fines under a proposal Ald. Timmy Knudsen (43rd) introduced to the City Council on Wednesday.
It was unclear if the same person or people were responsible for both incidents, but Knudsen and Lincoln Park residents were calling for accountability.
"This spread fear throughout the community, so we spoke up fast," Knudsen said.
Knudsen has proposed expanding the city's hate crime law to prohibit the posting of any "hateful of threatening material that is intended to or is reasonably likely to intimidate, emotionally abuse, slander, or threaten another person" in any public place or on someone's private property without their consent. Violations could result in a fine of $500 to $1,000.
"The goal of it is so that, if and when a hate incident like what occurred in Lincoln Park last week occurs again, that if we are able to identify the person committing the hate flyering or littering, we then have an arm where we can ticket, we can penalize, and we can start to push back on these hate groups, these largely white supremacist groups that are organizing hate flyering in our community," Knudsen said.
Knudsen's proposed ordinance has been referred to the Committee on Health and Human Relations, which would have to debate and vote on the measure before it could be approved by the full City Council.
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