Federal officials have arrested seven Amish men in Ohio and charged them with violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act in connection with a string of beard-cutting incidents.The seven Amish men arrested in an early-morning FBI raid were charged with violating the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and Steven M. Dettelbach, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Northern Ohio, announced on Wednesday.
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