WHAT CRIMINAL LAWS ARE BROKEN BY VIOLENCE OR THREATS OF VIOLENCE?
The following is a list of laws in the California Penal Code. A local District Attorney or the California Attorney General can prosecute people who break these laws: • PENAL CODE SECTION 190.2(a)(16): Provides a death penalty for murder because of the victim’s race, color, religion, nationality, or national origin. • PENAL CODE SECTION 302: Establishes it is a misdemeanor to willfully disturb a group of people met to worship. • PENAL CODE SECTION 422.6(a): Provides it is a misdemeanor to interfere by force or threat of force with a person’s statutory or constitutional rights because of a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability, or sexual orientation. • PENAL CODE SECTION 422.6(b): Provides it is a misdemeanor to damage a person’s property because of his or her race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability, or sexual orientation. • PENAL CODE SECTION 422.7: Provides that actions which are normally misdemeanors can become felonies if
