Saturday, April 15, 2017
UK police looking into 'hate crime' claim about Sun column (The Associated Press)
A complaint from Liverpool's mayor has sparked police to investigate whether a column in The Sun newspaper constituted a hate crime. Mayor Joe Anderson called for Kelvin MacKenzie to be fired after a column in which he compared a soccer player with African ancestry to a gorilla. The mayor said MacKenzie ''should not be employed by any news organization in this country'' and accused him of having a ''vindictive streak'' toward Liverpool, a port city some 210 miles (340 kilometers) north of London known as the birthplace of the Beatles.
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