One day while walking home from working a late shift, Raoul was beaten by two attackers. As they assaulted him with a baseball bat, they shouted both homophobic comments about Raoul's bisexuality and racist comments about his identity as a Latino. How would sociologists describe what happened to Raoul?

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The incident with Raoul is described as a multiple-bias hate crime because it involved attackers targeting him based on more than one aspect of his identity: his sexual orientation (bisexuality) and his ethnic background (Latino). This combination of homophobic and racist motivations fits the definition of a multiple-bias hate crime.

One Day While Walking Home from Working a Late Shift