Tag: Chapel Hill
Hate crime or parking dispute? The Chapel Hill debate
In the days that followed the shootings of three Muslim students at a condominium complex in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the media have been afire with opinions on accused murderer Craig Stephen Hicks’ motives: Was his a calculated hate crime, or, as some reports have suggested, the grisly result over a dispute over parking? More […]
Hybrid reserved parking called discriminatory in Chapel Hill
Town officials removed eight reserved parking signs (for hybrid and low-emission vehicles) in the upper lot of the Chapel Hill Public Library (in North Carolina) after residents deemed them discriminatory. Residents protested these hybrid parking signs saying that people like senior citizens, mothers with children, and others with greater needs than hybrid drivers could better […]