"Michigan middle school students chanting "build a wall" at Latino classmates.
A woman speaking a foreign language on a San Francisco Bay Area train being called an "ugly, mean, evil, little pig."
A Los Angeles student reportedly being teased that she was going to be deported.Since the presidential election, reports of intimidating and aggressive incidents toward minorities and women have surfaced across the country.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate incidents, has recorded more than 300 such reports in the past six days. SPLC spokesman Ryan Lenz tells The Two-Way that they "span a number of different sorts of ideological motivators," including anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and anti-woman attitudes.
Rights groups have called for President-elect Donald Trump and other politicians to take a strong stand against intimidation."
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