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Hatewatch Headlines 9/13/2016

Pence won’t say Duke is ‘deplorable’; Perkins worried by liberals’ language; Video shows truck smashing into mosque; and more.

Think Progress: Mike Pence refuses to say that former KKK leader David Duke is ‘deplorable.’

NBC News: Trump adviser, son both retweet image from white nationalists mocking ‘Deplorables’ with Pepe the Frog.

Right Wing Watch: FRC’s Tony Perkins is concerned by liberals’ ‘narrow-minded language.’

Media Matters: Fox Business invites on a hate-group leader to defend the ‘basket of deplorables.’

KATU-TV (Portland, OR): Man hangs effigy of Clinton from crane next to interstate, says ‘Vote Trump.’

New York Times: Arson suspected at mosque where Orlando nightclub gunman worshipped.

Raw Story: Racist white campers in Oregon call black man a ‘n-----’ 30 times after he asks them to leave his street.

New York Daily News: Someone tries to set a traditionally dressed Muslim woman on fire in Midtown, hate crime suspected.

Times-Picayune (New Orleans): Purported militia leader pleads guilty to gun, meth-dealing charges.

Baltimore Sun: Truck caught on video backing up and smashing mosque, police mulling it as possible hate crime.

KRON-TV (San Francisco): Antioch home of black family targeted in hate crime, tagged with a swastika, slurs.

LakeExpo.com (Osage Beach, MO): Man sent anti-LGBT texts before murdering bisexual woman and her mother, police say.

NBC 6 Miami: Early-morning explosion at home of gay couple being investigated as a hate crime.

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