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Hatewatch Headlines 7/12/2016

Gunman opens fire on Baltimore vigil; Officer fired for threatening black child; Jones blames Hillary Clinton for Dallas shootings; and more.

Baltimore Sun: Gunman opens fire on crowd at candlelight vigil for black man slain in Baltimore.

The Daily Beast: Why narcissistic haters always play the victim card.

Politico: The backlash against the Muslim backlash grows as polling finds more people viewing Islam favorably.

Detroit News: Detroit police arrest four people for making online threats against police officers.

AL.com: People’s New Black Panther Party urges the creation of a separatist, all-black ‘nation within a nation.’

Kansas City Star: Overland Park police officer fired for threatening child of BLM supporter on Facebook.

WGME-TV (Augusta, ME): New ‘Christian’ group aims to make homosexuality a crime in Maine.

The Trentonian (Trenton, NJ): Antigovernment ‘Sovereign citizen’ gets 33-year prison term for abusing wife, kids after rejecting plea deal.

Right Wing Watch: FRC’s Tony Perkins wants the GOP to endorse ‘ex-gay conversion’ therapy.

Media Matters: Conspiracist Alex Jones blames ‘witch’ Hillary Clinton for Dallas police shootings.

Raw Story: Seven radical proposals from the GOP platform demonstrate how far outside the mainstream the party has become.

Think Progress: Congress’ response to the Orlando massacre is to try to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination.

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