Experts put the surge in racist incidents down to increased hate crimes and bigotry in society at large, with some also pointing to the decision made during the coalition government to remove a duty on schools to monitor the incidence of racist bullying.
Ministers wanted to remove a statutory duty to publish levels of UK household income as part of the welfare reform and work bill but have now accepted, after a battle with the House of Lords, that the material deprivation measures should remain protected.
He removed a "digger" (a heavy-duty bladed spade), an XP Deus wireless metal detector, and a White's Bullseye II pin-pointer, a hand-held wand that vibrates or chimes when it's near metal.
The new law removed any duty to retreat, justifying force so long as a shooter "reasonably" believed that physical harm was imminent.
Stand-your-ground, which removes a person's duty to retreat to safety in the event of a confrontation, and which was introduced in Florida in 2005, was an example, he said, of a law that "tried to fix something that was never broken".
Though he did not call 911, hid the knife, and sold two of the car radios in the thief's possession, a judge ruled Garcia could go free under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which generally removes a person's duty to retreat in the face of a threat.
The city yesterday removed from duty a health inspector who gave a passing grade to a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in Greenwich Village one day before television cameras captured a swarm of rats scurrying about in the restaurant.
A Miami police officer was removed from duty after a video showing him kicking a handcuffed suspect in the head.
He noted that the Afghan National Army and National Police had already been conducting an investigation since March that has led to 200 to 300 Afghan soldiers being removed from duty, a portion of whom now face criminal prosecution or dismissal.
"In order to run a healthy investigation into the abominable terrorist attack... and in line with the requests from chief civil and police inspectors, Ankara's provincial police chief, intelligence department chief, and security department chiefs have been removed from duty," a statement on the ministry's website said late on Tuesday.
