Sen. Blumenthal: New Hate Crimes Laws Needed Post-Chapel Hill Killings

FARROW: "Senator, I understand that you have actually called for the protection of more categories of individuals under hate crime laws. Tell me about those efforts." 
BLUMENTHAL: "There should be in effect coverage of these kinds of hate crimes under state laws as well as federal law, the federal law is pretty comprehensive but the state laws could be improved so that they can be prosecuted in state court and I worked in Connecticut when I was attorney general as well as United States attorney, federal prosecutor, to enhance those penalties so that in fact they could be prosecuted more effectively and send a deterrent message. The important message here is a deterrent one that will be not be tolerated or accepted and that's the way a lot of public feels these days, enhancing penalties has been what my objective has been."