Love and Hate Crime

Name: Love and Hate Crime
Released: 2017-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Crime

An investigation into hate crimes committed against those singled out as "different;" these hate crimes have polarized opinion, inflamed passions and exposed deep-rooted prejudices in American society.

2017 · 52m

Director Ben Steele

EPISODE 1

Justice for Mercedes

Transgender teenager Mercedes Williamson is murdered by her boyfriend, who claims that the shock of finding out the truth about his partner made him lose control.
EPISODE 2

Murder in Mississippi

In Mississippi, a group of white teenagers murder a black man named James Craig Anderson, running over him with a pickup truck; condemned as a modern-day lynching, this crime is one of the first to be prosecuted under federal Hate Crime laws.
EPISODE 3

Killer with a Camera

A Coast Guard officer spends months planning before breaking into the apartment of married couple in Cape Cod and opening fire; police discover a video camera attached to him.