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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The victims' family members and several civil rights groups had been urging investigators to carefully examine whether the shooting was motivated by hate, as the attack came amid a reported rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias incidents in the US since the war between Israel and Hamas ignited last month.
62% : "The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights group, said the attack comes "as Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians across the country report a surge in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate since the escalation of violence in Palestine and Israel last month.
58% : CAIR said earlier this month that it documented a more than 200% increase (compared to the same period last year) in requests for help and reported anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias incidents in the month since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
57% : ""I know that this heinous and despicable act of violence -- this latest evidence of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian discrimination and hate spiraling across this country and around the world -- will leave many in our community deeply shaken," Brown president Christina H. Paxson said in a statement.

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