--- title: Hillary Clinton Kansas Shooting Comments description: Hillary Clinton says President Donald Trump must speak out against rising hate crimes in the U.S. following a deadly shooting in Kansas. canonical: https://time.com/4684468/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-hate-crimes/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-27T22:04:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:35.715Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Says President Trump Must 'Step Up' after Kansas Shooting og:description: Citing rising hate crimes in the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/4684468/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-hate-crimes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea26024cdea94d3a/6988b267cd1bba7b4e7035aa/hillary-clinton-fake-news.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: hillary-clinton-fake-news og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Says President Trump Must 'Step Up' after Kansas Shooting twitter:description: Citing rising hate crimes in the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea26024cdea94d3a/6988b267cd1bba7b4e7035aa/hillary-clinton-fake-news.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Says President Trump Must 'Step Up' after Kansas Shooting ## Video: Kansas Shooting Survivor Speaks From Hospital Bed [Watch (HLS stream): Kansas Shooting Survivor Speaks From Hospital Bed](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2jYTBdxG.m3u8) (1:22)  _Published 2017-02-24. A gunman opened fire in a busy Kansas bar on Wednesday, killing one Indian man and injuring two others in what witnesses say may have been a racially motivated attack._ by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Feb 27, 2017 10:04 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton concedes the presidential election at the New Yorker Hotel on Nov. 9, 2016 in New York City. Hillary Clinton concedes the presidential election at the New Yorker Hotel on Nov. 9, 2016 in New York City.Justin Sullivan—2016 Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Feb 27, 2017 10:04 PM UTC Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is speaking out against an alleged hate crime that took place in Olathe, Kan. last week. Adam Purinton, 51, shouted “get out of my country” at two Indian men in a bar before he [opened fire](http://time.com/4681450/kansas-gunman-shooting-race-crime/), killing one man and injuring two others. With reports that Purinton’s actions were [racially motivated](http://time.com/4681450/kansas-gunman-shooting-race-crime/), Clinton is calling on President Donald Trump, who has yet to speak out against the shooting, for change. “With threats & hate crimes on rise, we shouldn’t have to tell @POTUS to do his part. He must step up & speak out,” she tweeted Monday morning. Despite Clinton’s message, the shooting has not been ruled a hate crime—though the FBI has [joined an investigation](http://fox59.com/2017/02/24/fbi-investigating-shooting-at-kansas-bar-that-killed-indian-man-as-possible-hate-crime/) to determine whether or not it was. If it is ruled a hate crime, Purinton’s actions will join a growing number of hate or racially motivated crimes since Trump’s election. The uptick has mainly been against Muslims and Jews in the United States, according to reports. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/836275807077064704) Just five days after Trump was elected, the [Southern Poverty Law Center](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/15/update-more-400-incidents-hateful-harassment-and-intimidation-election), a civil rights advocacy group that tracks hate crimes, reported [more than 30 cases](https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/15/update-more-400-incidents-hateful-harassment-and-intimidation-election) of anti-Muslim incidents. Separately, the [Pew Research Center](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/21/anti-muslim-assaults-reach-911-era-levels-fbi-data-show/) also reported that the number of physical assaults against Muslim-Americans saw an increase in 2015, the second highest levels since Sept. 11. The New York Police Department has also seen an uptick in hate crimes: Between the election on Nov. 8 and Feb. 19, the NYPD received 143 hate-crime complaints—a 42% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-24/nypd-links-hate-crimes-increase-to-2016-presidential-campaign). The department has linked the surge to the 2016 presidential campaign. A [Jewish cemetery](http://time.com/4676540/antisemitism-missouri-vandalism-jewish-cemetery/) in Missouri was also recently vandalized, as was one in [Philadelphia.](http://time.com/4683565/police-say-more-than-100-jewish-cemetery-headstones-have-been-damaged-in-philadelphia/) While Trump has condemned [anti-Semitism](http://time.com/4677280/donald-trump-anti-semitism-jewish-leaders/), the Anne Frank Center said these comments were “pathetic,” writing in a [statement](https://www.facebook.com/AnneFrankCenterforMutualRespect/posts/10155151871429040) that the President’s comments are “a Band-Aid on the cancer of Anti-Semitism that has infected his own Administration.” On Friday, the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla—the sole man who was killed in the shooting—questioned whether or not Indians are safe in the United States during a news conference at Garmin headquarters, where Kuchibhotla worked as an aviation systems engineer, according to the Kansas City [_Star_](http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article134841774.html). “I need an answer,” she said, the _Star_ reports. “I need an answer from the government. …What are they going to do to stop this hate crime?” Purinton has been charged with one count of [first-degree murder](http://fox4kc.com/2017/02/27/man-charged-in-triple-shooting-at-olathe-bar-and-grill-makes-first-court-appearance/) and two counts of attempted murder in connection with the shooting. 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