Bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depressive illness or manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by wide mood swings from high (manic) to low (depressed). Periods of high or irritable mood are called manic episodes.
James Byrd, Jr. was not engaged in a federally-protected activity when he was lynched and killed. The Matthew Shepard Act expanded the 1969 Federal Hate Crime Law to cover these and other types of brutal murders.
The bureauâs Uniform Crime Report, which catalogs data about hate crimes, documented 257 anti-Muslim hate crimes â up from 154 in 2014 â and 5,850 total incidents reported to police last year, a 6.8 percent increase over the 5,479 incidents reported in 2014. Story Continued Below.