Gov proposes law to prosecute acts of domestic mass violence as domestic terror
By Ali Hibbs Albany, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo advanced the first domestic terrorism law in the United States on Thursday, to apply terrorism charges to mass violence motivated by hate spawned within our national borders. Under the Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act, mass shootings against a group of people based on their actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity