UK tabloid in hate crime' controversy

 A complaint from Liverpool’s mayor has sparked police to investigate whether a column in The Sun newspaper constituted a hate crime.Mayor Joe Anderson called for Kelvin MacKenzie to be fired after a column in which he compared a soccer player with African ancestry to a gorilla.

The mayor said MacKenzie “should not be employed by any news organisation in this country” and accused him of having a “vindictive streak” toward Liverpool. The Sun has apologised for the incident and suspended the columnist.