Speaking at the New York City Bar Association headquarters in Manhattan, Gov. Andrew Cuomo provided more details on a proposal to add a new crime of domestic terrorism to the state’s penal law in response to the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. 

Cuomo decried the shooting, which the police said targeted Mexicans last week, as a “mass hate crime,” which he now wants to define in state law as an act of domestic terrorism.

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