June 29, 2021 - 5:15am | By Greg Neft
(Fargo, ND) -- Fargo is moving forward with a hate crimes ordinance. Commissioners passed the ordinance last night on a three-to-two vote. The ordinance allows residents to be charged if they commit simple assault, harassment, and criminal mischief because of a victim's race, color, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or ancestry. The added charge would carry the city's harshest punishment of a 15-hundred-dollar fine or 30-days in jail.
