"Date","City","State","Type","Description"
"12/31/2011","Santa Barbara","CA","Assault","Two men were allegedly beaten outside a nightclub by three men who used anti-gay epithets."
"12/31/2011","Spring Hill","TN","Vandalism","Swastikas and racial slurs were spray-painted on four homes in a subdivision and a noose was hung in the yard of one of the residences."
"12/27/2011","Plainview","NY","Vandalism","A menorah on the lawn of a residence was smashed during Hanukkah."
"12/25/2011","Oshkosh","WI","Assault","A gay man was allegedly attacked outside a bar by two men who used anti-gay slurs. Lyall B. Ziebell and Jake R. Immel-Rhode, both 20, were charged with battery causing great bodily harm, which carries a hate crime modifier, and burglary."
"12/24/2011","Gilbert","AZ","Cross Burnings","A cross was burned at the residence of an interracial couple. A note containing a racial slur was tied to a brick and left at the residence."
"12/24/2011","Claremont","CA","Vandalism","A church's Nativity scene that included depictions of gay and lesbian couples was vandalized."
"12/22/2011","Lakewood","NJ","Intimidation","Three adults and two juveniles were charged with bias intimidation and harassment after they allegedly pelted two Orthodox Jewish teens with eggs and told them, `You better move on you Jew boys.`"
"12/22/2011","Yakima","WA","Assault","Diane M. Simpson, 50, was charged with malicious harassment and second-degree assault after she allegedly pointed a shotgun at a Latino neighbor and the woman's 2-year-old grandson while yelling that she hated Mexicans."
"12/21/2011","Tampa","FL","Legal Developments","James Robertson, 32, a member of the white supremacist Tampa Blood and Honour, was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal beatings of two homeless men in 1998."
"12/21/2011","Bronx","NY","Intimidation","A black doll was found hanging from a noose in the city headquarters of the parks and recreation department."
"12/20/2011","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Kevin Harpham, 37, a former member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, was sentenced to 32 years in prison for plotting to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade."
"12/19/2011","Long Beach","CA","Legal Developments","Marquise Lucas, 19, and Sierus Dunbar, 27, were charged with one felony count of battery with serious bodily injury and one felony count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury for allegedly using anti-gay epithets and assaulting two men near a gay and lesbian center on Halloween night. Lucas was also charged with a second felony count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and Dunbar was also charged with a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, not a firearm, with great bodily injury."
"12/19/2011","Yonkers","NY","Vandalism","Four statues of the Virgin Mary in shrines or Nativity scenes in the yards of residences were painted black. A statue of the Virgin was stolen from outside a church and several statues inside were painted black."
"12/15/2011","Sacramento","CA","Legal Developments","Joel Baltazar Olivarez, 30, pleaded guilty to felony battery charges for using an anti-gay slur and beating a man outside a bowling alley on June 5."
"12/15/2011","Santa Ana","CA","Legal Developments","Jonathan Michael Schmidt, 31, was sentenced to 180 days in jail after pleading guilty to hate crime charges for yelling racial slurs at a Latino woman, spitting on her and trying to run her down with his bicycle in October."
"12/14/2011","Madison","WI","Assault","Derek J. Cannon, 21, was arrested on tentative charges of substantial battery and disorderly conduct with a hate crime enhancer after he allegedly attacked a man of Moroccan heritage while yelling about Osama Bin Laden."
"12/13/2011","Vestavia Hills","AL","Vandalism","A swastika, a Jewish star and obscenities were spray-painted on the sidewalk in front of a Jewish family's house. The family's teenage daughter allegedly has been harassed by classmates because of her religion."
"12/12/2011","Los Angeles","CA","Arson","A Korean church was set on fire and racist graffiti was scrawled nearby."
"12/11/2011","New Castle","DE","Vandalism","Eggs painted with racial symbols and slogans were thrown at a house."
"12/11/2011","Manhattan","NY","Harassment","David Haddad, 56, was charged with aggravated harassment as a hate crime after he allegedly made several threatening anti- Semitic phone calls and scrawled hate graffiti on apartment doors."
"12/11/2011","Bellingham","WA","Assault","William Adam Lane, 22, was charged with malicious harassment after allegedly yelling slurs at a lesbian couple and smashing a window of their car."
"12/07/2011","Little Rock","AR","Legal Developments","Gary Dodson, 32, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deny civil rights, interfering with housing rights and aiding and abetting in the possession of an unregistered firearm for his part in a plot to firebomb the residence of an interracial couple."
"12/05/2011","Brockton","MA","Legal Developments","Amanda Kelly, 23; Christopher Bratlie, 21; and Keven Shdeed, 25, were convicted of assaulting and violating the civil rights of a black man after they shouted racial slurs and beat, kicked and stabbed him at a party in 2008."
"12/05/2011","Akron","OH","Vandalism","A swastika was drawn on the doors of a hair salon owned by a black woman."
"12/03/2011","Rowland Heights","CA","Vandalism","Graffiti was found at a Mormon church."
"11/30/2011","Highland Park","NJ","Vandalism","The windows of five Jewish-owned stores were shattered. Richard Green, 52, was charged with five counts of criminal mischief."
"11/30/2011","Midland","TX","Legal Developments","Steven Scott Cantrell, 26, pleaded guilty to charges of damaging religious property, arson, and interfering with housing, all prosecuted with a bias crime enhancement, for firebombing a black church in the city of Crane in December 2010. Cantrell said the firebombing was an attempt to kill a black parishioner and part of Cantrell's plan to gain status in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. He was sentenced to more than 37 years in prison."
"11/29/2011","Minneapolis","MN","Legal Developments","George Thompson, 64, was sentenced to six months in federal prison for violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act in 2010. Thompson told a Somali man he was going to kill him and yelled ethnic and religious slurs at him as he chased him into the street."
"11/29/2011","Chillicothe","OH","Legal Developments","Levi Sever, 15, was sentenced to 90 days in a juvenile detention center for the Oct. 17 assault of a gay teen at a high school."
"11/28/2011","Pittsburgh","PA","Vandalism","A bomb threat, swastikas, the letters `KKK` and the numerals `666` were spray-painted inside a van owned by the city's senior center."
"11/26/2011","Bay City","MI","Assault","Delane D. Bell, 25, was charged with assault or assault and battery and ethnic intimidation after he allegedly shouted `Osama bin Laden` and `Jihad` as he beat two men of Indian descent."
"11/26/2011","Brooklyn","NY","Vandalism","A swastika was found inside of an elevator for the second time in nine days."
"11/21/2011","Oxnard","CA","Legal Developments","Brandon McInerney, 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of use of a firearm for the 2008 shooting death of his 15- year-old gay classmate, Larry King. McInerney was sentenced to 21 years in prison."
"11/21/2011","San Jose","CA","Assault","A Hindu man whose family is originally from India was allegedly beaten by a group of men who called him a `terrorist.`"
"11/19/2011","Thiboudaux","LA","Assault","Three black female inmates in the parish jail, Jennifer Joseph, 41; April Preston, 27; and Britney Richard, 22, were charged with simple battery and a hate crime for allegedly beating a white female inmate while making racist remarks."
"11/17/2011","New Orleans","LA","Vandalism","Anti-religious slurs such as `Heil Mary` were written on prayer cards at an Episcopal church. An angel statue was also vandalized and an Aryan Nations symbol was written on it."
"11/16/2011","Export","PA","Leafletting","Recruiting fliers from the Rebel Brigade Ku Klux Klan were posted on telephone poles and the windows of businesses."
"11/15/2011","Palm Desert","CA","Vandalism","Two swastikas were cut into the lawn at a senior center."
"11/15/2011","Columbus","GA","Legal Developments","White supremacist Michael Carothers, 31, aka Michael Weaver, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for using pepper spray on a black man in December 2010. Carothers was sentenced to one year in prison, followed by nine years of probation. He also was banished until his probation ends from all six counties in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit, which includes the city of Columbus."
"11/14/2011","Ansonville","NC","Vandalism","Swastikas, racial slurs and other graffiti were spray-painted on the exterior of seven churches and the interior of one of the churches was vandalized."
"11/11/2011","Brooklyn","NY","Vandalism","Anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled on sidewalks, swastikas were drawn on park benches, the letters `KKK` were written on a van and cars were torched in a heavily Jewish neighborhood on the anniversary of Kristallnacht."
"11/11/2011","Wrightsville","PA","Legal Developments","Michael Wayne Cook, a member of the white supremacist Silver Shirts and former head of the county chapter of the neo-Nazi Creativity Movement, was sentenced to six months in prison and four months of home confinement for illegally possessing body armor. Cook's previous convictions for making terroristic threats and destroying property prohibits him from owning body armor."
"11/11/2011","Pulaski","TN","Vandalism","Racial slurs and the word `kill` were painted on the barn of a white family  with an adopted black five-year-old. Swastikas have also been painted on road signs, in the middle of a street and on the side of a truck at other locations in the county."
"11/09/2011","Coeur d'Alene","ID","Legal Developments","Edgar J. Steele, 66, a self- described white separatist and “attorney for the politically incorrect,” was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison for plotting the pipe bomb murder of his wife in 2010."
"11/08/2011","Yorkville","IL","Legal Developments","Marquitte West, 18, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to the June 2011 hate crime beating of a gay man in Oswego."
"11/08/2011","Montgomery Village","MD","Harassment","Five black teens allegedly repeatedly banged on the door of a residence, yelled racial slurs and told the family to `go back to India.` Trash also was allegedly tossed in the family's yard."
"11/08/2011","New Paltz","NY","Harassment","A sign reading `Colored only` was posted over a drinking fountain in a building at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Three similar signs were posted in a dormitory later in the week."
"11/08/2011","Grove City","OH","Vandalism","Anti-gay epithets were spray-painted on a gay couple's home and garage."
"11/07/2011","Spokane Valley","WA","Harassment","Two teens allegedly broke into a man's apartment, stole an IPod and a computer and assaulted him because he is gay. Andrey A. Babakov, 17, and Svitoslav A. Lisashedko, 16, were charged with first-degree burglary, second- degree theft and malicious harassment, which is a hate crime."
"11/06/2011","Pomona","CA","Rally","More than 50 members of the neo- Nazi National Socialist Movement held an anti-immigration march and rally."
"11/06/2011","Tacoma","WA","Assault","An 18-year-old disabled woman who was holding hands with her caregiver was allegedly assaulted by a man who called the woman lesbians."
"11/05/2011","San Luis Obispo","CA","Legal Developments","Jeremiah Hernandez, 32; Jason Kahn, 36; Sara Matheny, 24; and William Soto, 20, were charged with arson, conspiracy and hate crime allegations for allegedly burning a cross near a black family's home in March 2011."
"11/05/2011","Brooklyn","NY","Vandalism","A swastika was painted on a sidewalk in an area that is home to many Hasidic Jews."
"11/03/2011","New Orleans","LA","Legal Developments","Mark Gautreau, 50, pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon for shooting and wounding two Latino men while they were fishing in 2006. Before the shooting Gautreau allegedly told a bystander he was going to `shoot some Mexicans.`"
"11/01/2011","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Sharyl Ann Curtis, a 42-year-old white woman, was charged with four counts of malicious harassment under the state's hate crime statute for allegedly yelling racial epithets at a black man and his two children while wearing a white sheet with the letters `KKK` written on it on Halloween night. Curtis also allegedly sprayed the children with a liquid she said was bleach that would make everyone white."
"10/31/2011","Indio","CA","Legal Developments","David John Reed, 52, was sentenced to death for the 2004 racially motivated stabbing death of a homeless black man, Ricky Mosley."
"10/31/2011","Long Beach","CA","Assault","Two men leaving a gay and lesbian center were allegedly attacked by two other men who used anti-gay epithets. A 19-year- old and a 27-year-old were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. The incident was being investigated as a hate crime."
"10/31/2011","Milpitas","CA","Vandalism","Pentagrams and vulgarities were spray-painted on a Lutheran church."
"10/31/2011","San Francisco","CA","Assault","A transgendered man was allegedly assaulted by a man, armed with a knife, who threatened repeatedly to kill him because he was transgendered. Ricky Hodge, 38, was charged with suspicion of aggravated assault, making terrorist threats and hate crime enhancements."
"10/31/2011","Wichita","KS","Arson","A mosque that had been receiving anti-Muslim letters for months was set afire."
"10/31/2011","Winston-Salem","NC","Vandalism","Racial and anti-gay slurs were written on the doors of six fraternity lounges."
"10/31/2011","Reno","TX","Assault","A gay man was allegedly stabbed with a broken beer bottle and thrown onto a fire at a party by up to four men who yelled anti- gay slurs during the attack. Daniel Martin, 33, and James `Tray`Mitchell III, 31, were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. Micky Joe Smith, 25, was also arrested in connection with the incident."
"10/26/2011","Salt Lake City","UT","Assault","A gay man was allegedly beaten outside a nightclub by a group of men who yelled anti-gay epithets."
"10/25/2011","Westminster","CA","Assault","Jennifer Renee Vanveldhuizen, 36, pleaded guilty to a felony count of hate-crime battery causing injury for yelling racial slurs at a Latino maintenance worker then punching him in the face in Huntington Beach on Oct. 4. Vanveldhuizen was sentenced to three years of probation, 90 days in an alcohol rehabilitation program and a 10- week anger management program."
"10/24/2011","Fort Collins","CO","Intimidation","A man allegedly harassed a liquor store employee while calling him a `Persian terrorist.` Scott Mendias was charged with ethnic intimidation."
"10/24/2011","Shreveport","LA","Legal Developments","William Payne, 32, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and hate crimes for beating a man in the face with a pool cue at a nightclub in January after making threats to the victim because of his sexual orientation. Payne was sentenced to 23 years in prison."
"10/24/2011","Concord","NH","Vandalism","A swastika was spray-painted on a car, derogatory remarks and obscenities were spray-painted on a church and a swastika, profanity and a sexually explicit drawing were spray-painted on a garage in separate locations throughout the city."
"10/24/2011","Yorktown","NY","Harassment","A swastika was drawn on a campaign poster. Gerard Giblin, 17, was charged with first-degree aggravated harassment."
"10/24/2011","Fort Worth","TX","Legal Developments","Henry Glaspell, 34, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to a hate crime charge for setting fire to playground equipment at an Islamic center in Arlington in July 2010."
"10/23/2011","Hillsboro","OR","Vandalism","A swastika was spray-painted on a family's truck and the letters `KKK` were spray-painted on the garage door of a nearby residence."
"10/21/2011","San Francisco","CA","Assault","An interracial couple pushing their two children in a stroller was allegedly attacked by a man who made a comment about the race of their children, punched the man and woman and kicked the stroller, striking one of the children in the head. Hosea Matavao, 48, was charged with three counts of assault, one count of endangering a child and one count of battery. Four of the charges have hate crime allegations attached."
"10/17/2011","San Francisco","CA","Assault","Three men were allegedly beaten outside a restaurant by five men who yelled anti-gay slurs."
"10/09/2011","Elwood","NE","Legal Developments","Matthew Hansen, 21, pleaded guilty to felony assault for the July beating of a Latino man. Jeremiah Hilderbrand, 28, and Anthony Hilderbrand, 26, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in connection with the incident and were each sentenced to 89 days in jail with time served."
"10/07/2011","Council Grove","KS","Assault","Three men, one armed with a machete, allegedly broke into a black man's house, yelled racial slurs, ordered a pit bull to bite the man, then poured rubbing alcohol on him and set him on fire. Isaac Wilson, 23, was charged with aggravated battery and aggravated burglary."
"10/06/2011","Westminster","CA","Legal Developments","Jonathan Michael Schmidt, 31, was charged with two felony counts of hate crime battery and one felony count of hate crime assault for allegedly yelling racial slurs at a Latino woman and spitting on her before trying to run her over with his bike."
"10/06/2011","Immokalee","FL","Legal Developments","Four men were arrested for allegedly yelling anti-gay epithets and beating two gay men on Sept. 21. Eleazar Alvardo, 22, Jonathan Rodriguez and two juveniles were charged with misdemeanor battery."
"10/06/2011","Mount Pleasant","NY","Legal Developments","Two 16-year-old boys were charged with second-degree aggravated harassment for allegedly making anti-Semitic phone calls to a Jewish family."
"10/06/2011","Corvallis","OR","Legal Developments","Two 16-year-old boys were charged with second-degree aggravated harassment for allegedly making anti-Semitic phone calls to a Jewish family."
"10/04/2011","Ingleside","CA","Assault","Kevin Guerin allegedly punched and choked his neighbor while using anti- gay slurs."
"10/03/2011","Tampa","FL","Legal Developments","Cory Hulse, a member of the white supremacist Tampa Blood and Honour, pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering charge in connection with the fatal beatings of two homeless men in 1998."
"10/02/2011","Harwood","ND","Vandalism","Racist sayings, swastikas and anarchy symbols were written on the city hall, a residence, several street signs and numerous vehicles, including school buses."
"10/01/2011","Oak Grove","OR","Vandalism","A restaurant owned by a lesbian was vandalized."
"09/30/2011","San Fernando","CA","Legal Developments","Francisco Vasquez, 34, and Anthony Gonzales, 19, were convicted of a hate crime and attempted murder for yelling a racial slur and opening fire on two black men in May 2010."
"09/30/2011","Boulder","CO","Assault","Thomas Frank Ross, a 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault and bias-motivated crime after allegedly making derogatory remarks about Asian food, then breaking the nose of a half-Asian student who objected."
"09/29/2011","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Anthony C. Brockie, 37, was charged with second-degree assault and malicious harassment after he allegedly threatened two convenience store clerks with a straight razor while yelling racial slurs."
"09/28/2011","Carlsbad","CA","Legal Developments","Arturo Santiago, 22, was arrested for investigation of a hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly used racial slurs and hit a fellow bus passenger on the head with a bottle on April 4."
"09/28/2011","Ventura","CA","Legal Developments","Nicholas Klopp was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of felony assault with a deadly weapon with a hate-crime allegation. In December, Klopp yelled sexual slurs and threw a drinking glass that slashed a gay man's face during a birthday party at a restaurant."
"09/27/2011","Harrison","AR","Legal Developments","Sean Popejoy, 20, was sentenced to four years in prison for his part in a 2010 racially motivated attack where Popejoy was a passenger in a truck that rammed a car with five Latino men inside, forcing it to overturn and burn, injuring all the men. Popejoy was the first person convicted under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009."
"09/27/2011","New York","NY","Legal Developments","Matthew Francis, 21, was sentenced to two years in jail for using anti-gay slur and beating a man in a historic gay bar in October 2010."
"09/26/2011","Las Vegas","NV","Legal Developments","Ronald `Joey` Sellers, former leader of the Aryan Warriors prison gang, pleaded guilty in federal court to the attempted murder of a fellow Aryan Warriors associate in 2007."
"09/26/2011","Robinson","PA","Legal Developments","Michael Duane Bracken, 23, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in burning a cross in 2009 at the residence of a family hosting a black foster child."
"09/24/2011","Greensboro","NC","Vandalism","The letters `KKK` and the words `Klan` were painted on signs and the front window and the outside of the county Republican Party headquarters."
"09/24/2011","Seattle","WA","Vandalism","A gay couple's car tires were slashed and an anti-gay note was left in front of their home."
"09/23/2011","Immokalee","FL","Assault","Two gay men allegedly were attacked by five men who yelled anti-gay slurs."
"09/22/2011","Cumberland","KY","Legal Developments","Four people were arrested for allegedly using anti-gay slurs and beating a gay man in April. David Jason Jenkins, 37, and Anthony Ray Jenkins, 20, were charged with attempted murder and Mabel Ashley Jenkins and Alexis Leann Jenkins, both 18, were charged with complicity."
"09/22/2011","Newark","NJ","Legal Developments","Douglas Brown, 36, was charged with harassment, bias intimidation and criminal mischief charges for allegedly calling his former neighbors homophobic names, putting oil on their home, slashing their ties and destroying property in a series of incidents that reportedly began in May."
"09/21/2011","Huntsville","TX","Legal Developments","White supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed for the 1998 racially motivated dragging murder of James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man."
"09/20/2011","Bryant","AR","Intimidation","A racist note allegedly signed by the KKK was left in the mailbox of a family that has an adopted black son."
"09/20/2011","Sacramento","CA","Assault","A black man allegedly yelled sexual epithets at two men who were holding hands and then struck one of the men in the head with a sharp object."
"09/20/2011","O'Fallon","IL","Legal Developments","Justin Lamar Kidd, a 28-year-old black man, was convicted of two counts of maliciously conveying false threats and for allegedly mailing two threats in 2006 ostensibly from the Ku Klux Klan to authorities warning them to remove blacks from the city or their homes would be burned down."
"09/19/2011","Missoula","MT","Leafletting","A sticker from the white supremacist group the Montana Creators was found on the University of Montana's Native American Center building and fliers from the group were left on cars."
"09/18/2011","San Diego","CA","Legal Developments","Halbert Sadler, a black man, was charged with suspicion of a hate crime after he allegedly yelled racial slurs at a white couple and tried to rob them."
"09/18/2011","Concord","NH","Vandalism","Racist messages were written on the residences of several African refugee families."
"09/18/2011","Sand Springs","OK","Leafletting","Fliers from the United Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in the yards of a neighborhood."
"09/17/2011","Davis","CA","Assault","Peter Lloyd Zuniga, 25, was charged with felony assault and committing a hate crime after he allegedly beat and kicked a female convenience store clerk because of her Russian heritage."
"09/16/2011","Hartford","CT","Legal Developments","Racist radio talk show host Hal Turner was acquitted of threatening and inciting violence in his online blog against three state officials."
"09/15/2011","Cambria","CA","Vandalism","Anti-gay slurs were spray-painted on a house three times in one week."
"09/14/2011","Calabasas","CA","Legal Developments","Two 17-year-old boys confessed to spray-painting swastikas and anti-Semitic and racist graffiti at the local high school in April. After admitting to the charge of felony vandalism with a hate crime allegation, they were ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, pay $6,000 in restitution and attend a program at the Museum of Tolerance."
"09/14/2011","Grand Forks","ND","Harassment","Replacement workers and security personnel, some of them minorities, allegedly have been called racial slurs by union supporters outside a sugar plant. A monkey-like figure hanging from a noose attached to a large inflatable rat was also hung outside the plant."
"09/13/2011","Towson","MD","Legal Developments","Teonna Brown, 19, was sentenced to five years in jail after pleading guilty to first-degree assault and a hate crime for beating a transgender woman in a restaurant in April."
"09/12/2011","San Luis Obispo","CA","Legal Developments","Jeremiah Hernandez, 32; Jason Kahn, 36; Sara Matheny, 24, and William Soto, 20, were ordered to stand trial on arson, conspiracy and hate crimes charges for allegedly burning a cross outside a black family's residence in March. All four defendants are either white or Latino."
"09/11/2011","Orangevale","CA","Arson","Anti-Arab graffiti and a swastika were spray-painted on a dry cleaners owned by Palestinian immigrants. The building was then set afire."
"09/09/2011","Wellington","CO","Vandalism","Swastikas and anti-gay slurs were spray- painted on buses painted with images of love and peace at an organic farm."
"09/09/2011","Hayesville","NC","Arson","The words `9/11 go home` were painted on a grocery store owned by a Sikh family and a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the building."
"09/09/2011","Carlisle","PA","Harassment","Arrest warrants for ethnic intimidation and disorderly conduct were issued for Brian Fahnestock, 46, after he allegedly threatened a Walmart greeter and made a racial comment."
"09/08/2011","Palm Springs","CA","Legal Developments","David John Reed, a 51-year-old white man, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2004 racially motivated stabbing death of Ricky Mosley, a black man. Reed, who has tattoos reading `white pride` and `Peckerwood,` was sentenced to death."
"09/08/2011","Robinson","PA","Legal Developments","Kenneth Paul Stiffey Jr., 21, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in burning a cross in 2009 at the residence of a family hosting a black foster child."
"09/08/2011","American Fork","UT","Assault","A gay man at work in a hair salon was allegedly beaten by two or three people who yelled anti-gay slurs."
"09/08/2011","Appleton","WI","Legal Developments","Chadwick E. Sharp-Bestul, 19, was sentenced to three years in prison on two burglary counts with hate crime enhancements after he and another man broke into and damaged two gas stations in 2010 because they were owned by `Arabians.`"
"09/07/2011","Newport","DE","Leafletting","Fliers from Virgils White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were thrown onto driveways and lawns."
"09/07/2011","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Kevin Harpham, 37, who has extensive ties to white supremacists, pleaded guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and a hate crime for planting a bomb that was intended to hurl poison- laced shrapnel into the multicultural crowd marching in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in January."
"09/06/2011","Jackson","MS","Legal Developments","Deryl Dedmon, a 19-year-old white man, was charged with capital murder for allegedly beating and running over James Anderson, a 49-year-old black man, with his truck in June."
"09/06/2011","Clinton","TN","Legal Developments","Ricky Lynn Hawkins, 34, a self-identified lieutenant in the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault and civil rights intimidation for allegedly beating a black man with a baseball bat and yelling racial slurs in October 2010. Hawkins was allegedly angry that the man was dating a white woman."
"09/05/2011","Newark","DE","Harassment","A cross made of PVC pipe with racial slurs written on it was planted in a man's yard. A 16- year-old boy was charged with harassment and a hate crime and a 15-year-old boy was charged with second-degree conspiracy, harassment and a hate crime."
"09/03/2011","Centralia","IA","Arson","A racial slur was painted on the garage of a house that was set afire."
"09/03/2011","Salt Lake City","UT","Assault","A gay man was allegedly beaten and punched by four men as he walked home from a club that was holding a gay-themed night."
"09/03/2011","West Allis","WI","Rally","The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement held a rally."
"09/02/2011","Monroe","LA","Legal Developments","Brian Wallis, 21, and his brother James Lee Wallis Jr., 25, pleaded guilty in federal court to committing a hate crime by intentionally attempting to intimidate black students at a local high school by hanging a dead raccoon in a noose from a flagpole in front of the school."
"09/02/2011","Midland","TX","Legal Developments","Steven Scott Cantrell, 25, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for setting fire to a predominantly black church in December 2010 in an effort to kill a disabled black man he believed lived at the church. The arson was part of a series of racially motivated arsons Cantrell committed in an attempt to gains status with the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas."
"09/02/2011","Vancouver","WA","Assault","Former Aryan Nations member Zachary Beck, 32, was sentenced to 51 months in prison with three years of supervised release for a racially motivated assault at a sports bar in January 2010. He and two other men started a fight with a black man and yelled `white power` and racial slurs."
"09/01/2011","Los Angeles","CA","Threat","An immigrant rights activist allegedly received hundreds of threatening phone calls after a radio show known for its inflammatory anti- immigrant rhetoric aired his personal cell phone number."
"09/01/2011","Norwalk","CA","Vandalism","Two Latino men allegedly spray- painted racist graffiti on the outside of a black woman's house then forced themselves into her house but fled after the woman fired a gun at them."
"08/31/2011","Ventura","CA","Legal Developments","Daniel Dockery, 22, was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to making a felony criminal threat. Dockery allegedly told two teenage boys in the Ojai area that he was a skinhead before making racial slurs, slapping one and threatening to kill both of them slurs, slapping one and threatening to kill both of them in June."
"08/31/2011","Independence","MO","Legal Developments","Teresa Witthar, 43, was indicted on seven counts of conspiring to violate a biracial man's civil rights by threatening and intimidating him because of his race or color after she and two others allegedly wrote racial slurs in the man's house and then set fire to the residence in 2006. Witthar was also charged with aiding and abetting in the use of force or threat or force; using fire to commit a felony; obstruction of justice and lying to FBI agents."
"08/31/2011","New York","NY","Legal Developments","Ahmed Ferhani, 26, and Mohamed Mamdouh, 20, pleaded not guilty to state terror and hate-crime charges, including criminal possession of a weapon as a terror crime, terror conspiracy and hate-crime conspiracy following their May arrest for allegedly plotting to blow up a synagogue."
"08/27/2011","Coeur d'Alene","ID","Harassment","A white man allegedly yelled racial slurs at a black man walking past his house. Joel T. Diekhoff was charged with felony malicious harassment."
"08/25/2011","Long Beach","CA","Legal Developments","Jorge Jhovanoy Ibarrias, 21, pleaded no contest to one count of felony battery with serious bodily injury with a hate crime enhancement for punching a gay man in the face on July 24. He was sentenced to five years in prison."
"08/23/2011","Columbus","GA","Legal Developments","Michael Carothers, aka Michael Weaver, 31, a member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly spraying Mace on a black man in December who was walking along the street."
"08/21/2011","Hempfield","PA","Vandalism","Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was painted on vehicles, driveways and a fence."
"08/18/2011","Farmington","NM","Legal Developments","Paul Beebe, 27, and Jesse Sanford, 25, pleaded to federal hate crimes for beating, branding and writing the words `KKK` and `white power` on a developmentally disabled Native American man in 2010. Beebe pleaded guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Act of 2009 and Sanford pleaded guilty to conspiring to violating the act."
"08/16/2011","Antelope","CA","Vandalism","Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was written on fences, cars, garages and mailboxes."
"08/15/2011","Wichita","KS","Assault","Three white teens allegedly yelled racial slurs at a black man, threw bottles at him and then attempted to run him over with their vehicle."
"08/14/2011","Pasadena","CA","Vandalism","Racist graffiti targeting Latinos was scrawled on a planter outside a fast food restaurant."
"08/13/2011","Houston","TX","Assault","Four white men, Michael Joe McLaughlin, 40; Brian Kerstsetter, 32; Joseph Staggs, 48, and Charles Allen Cannon, 25, allegedly attacked a black man at a bus stop."
"08/11/2011","Michigan City","IN","Vandalism","Rocks and a large cinderblock were thrown through the window of an Islamic center."
"08/11/2011","St. Paul","MN","Legal Developments","George Thompson, 64, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of an 83-year-old Somali man in May 2010 by assaulting him, yelling that the man was Muslim and should go back to Africa and threatening to kill him."
"08/11/2011","Berlin","WI","Legal Developments","Paul Captain, 49, was allegedly charged with a hate crime for sending threatening and racist e-mails to the Wisconsin State Fair spokeswoman."
"08/10/2011","Jersey City","NJ","Harassment","A group of teenagers allegedly yelled anti-Asian epithets at a Filipino man and attempted to follow him into his apartment building."
"08/09/2011","Washington","DC","Legal Developments","Christian Washington, 19, was charged with bias-related assault after he and several other men allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs at five lesbians outside a Metro station on July 30 and then beat them."
"08/09/2011","Deerfield Township","OH","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left on cars."
"08/08/2011","Pasadena","CA","Vandalism","Swastikas and racist and anti-gay graffiti were spray-painted on residential, commercial and city- owned buildings."
"08/04/2011","Provincetown","MA","Assault","Dorjee Gyadatsang, 24, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of assault and battery with the intent to intimidate resulting in injury, assault and battery with the intent to intimidate, three counts of assault and battery and a civil rights violation for allegedly attacking two men and yelling anti-gay slurs at them."
"08/04/2011","Billings","MT","Legal Developments","Jason Lee Paullin, 35, was ordered to serve a three-year deferred sentence after pleading guilty to malicious intimidation or harassment related to civil or human rights. In March, Paullin threatened a black man with his dog, chased him down a street and yelled racial slurs."
"08/03/2011","Ventura","CA","Assault","Patrick Fitzgerald, 24, was arrested for a hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly called people slurs based on their race and skin color and then was involved in a fight."
"07/31/2011","Clinton","MO","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement were left on car windshields in a parking lot."
"07/29/2011","Harrisburg","PA","Legal Developments","Kelvin Brian Ford, 25, was arrested following a chase by police, who discovered he was wanted in Maryland for allegedly making racial comments and cutting a man with a box cutter in July."
"07/26/2011","Des Moines","IA","Vandalism","A doll with its face, hands and feet painted black 
was hung from a black woman's garage door. A 
racial slur, profanities and a threat for her to leave 
her job 'or else' also were spray-painted on the 
garage. A racial slur was allegedly written on the 
woman's locker at work in May."
"07/26/2011","Detroit","MI","Legal Developments","Glenn E. Morgan Jr. was charged with 
mailing threatening communications 
through the U.S. mail after he 
allegedly sent photos and letters that 
included racial slurs and threats to an 
interracial couple."
"07/25/2011","Jupiter Farms","FL","Vandalism","Swastikas and racial slurs were 
spray-painted on stop signs in a 
neighborhood."
"07/25/2011","Jupiter Farms","FL","Vandalism","Swastikas and racial slurs were spray-painted on stop signs in a neighborhood."
"07/25/2011","Des Moines","IA","Threat","A doll with its face, hands and feet painted black was hung from a black woman's garage door. A racial slur, profanities and a threat for her to leave her job `or else` also were spray- painted on the garage. A racial slur was allegedly written on the woman's work locker in May."
"07/25/2011","Norristown","PA","Legal Developments","Colin Andrew Ford, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of terroristic threats for spray-painting swastikas and ethnic slurs on a Jewish family's house in February."
"07/21/2011","Wheaton","MD","Legal Developments","Steven Armstrong, 53, was 
convicted of a hate crime and 
vandalism for slashing the tires of 
his Latino neighbors in 2010."
"07/20/2011","Little Rock","AR","Legal Developments","Two men pleaded guilty in federal court to a civil-rights violation stemming from a cross-burning in front of a black man's apartment Aug. 28."
"07/20/2011","Asheville","NC","Legal Developments","A 15-year-old was charged with 
assault and damage to property in connection 
with a Feb. 14 incident where he and three 
others allegedly taunted and assaulted a man 
they believed to be gay. Lamon Lewis Hopkins, 
25, had already been charged with felony assault 
in the incident."
"07/19/2011","Salado","AR","Legal Developments","Tony Branscum, 25, and James 
Bradley 
`Brad` Branscum, 23, pleaded 
guilty to 
federal hate charges of violating 
housing 
rights in connection with an 

cross burning at a black man's 
residence."
"07/19/2011","Lawrenceport","IN","Legal Developments","James Maple, 22, was arrested on second-
degree criminal mischief charges from Florida 
for allegedly participating in the spray-painting 
of anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue there. 
Cory Gallman, 20; a 16-year-old boy and a 17-
year-old girl were arrested on hate crime 
charges in Mount Dora, Fla."
"07/19/2011","Lawrenceport","IN","Legal Developments","James Maple, 22, was arrested on second- degree criminal mischief charges from Florida for allegedly participating in the spray-painting of anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue there. Cory Gallman, 20; a 16-year-old boy and a 17- year-old girl were arrested on hate crime charges in Mount Dora, Fla."
"07/19/2011","Minneapolis","MN","Vandalism","Racial epithets were spray-painted 
on three cars."
"07/18/2011","Denver","CO","Assault","A man walking with a friend was allegedly chased and beaten by two men who yelled anti-gay slurs. Joseph Murphy, 18, and Zachary Kocman, 19, were each charged with one count of bias-motivated assault and one misdemeanor count of third- degree assault."
"07/17/2011","St. Paul","MN","Vandalism","Racial epithets were spray-painted on three cars."
"07/16/2011","Daytona Beach","FL","Assault","A white man yelled a racial slur at a black neighbor then assaulted him."
"07/15/2011","Potomac","MD","Vandalism","A middle school was vandalized with graffiti and “hate language.”"
"07/15/2011","Cherry Hill","NJ","Vandalism","The hands on a statue of Mary at St. Mary's Church were broken off."
"07/15/2011","Lemon Grove","NJ","Assault","A Latino man was allegedly beaten by a 
group of white men who yelled an epithet and 
the words 'white power' during the road rage 
incident."
"07/14/2011","Atlanta","GA","Legal Developments","Neal Ray Schmidt, 59, a former state leader for 
the Ku Klux Klan in Missouri, pleaded guilty to 
driving to Georgia with the intent of having sex 
with two 14-year-old girls he met online. He 
was sentenced to 20 years in prison."
"07/14/2011","Niagara Falls","NY","Assault","Two women allegedly yelled ethnic slurs and assaulted a woman of Pakistani origin who was wearing a hijab. Antoinette S. Ivey, 32, was charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime."
"07/14/2011","Verona","PA","Harassment","A noose was left hanging from the 
rafters near a production line where 
a black employee works in a 
beverage company."
"07/13/2011","Milford","DE","Vandalism","Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti has been written on fences, cars, houses and a boat in residential neighborhoods since late June."
"07/13/2011","Westover","MD","Leafletting","Fliers promoting a Ku Klux Klan 
event in Virginia were distributed."
"07/12/2011","Milford","DE","Vandalism","Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti has 
been written on fences, cars, houses 
and a boat in residential 
neighborhoods since late June."
"07/11/2011","Mount Dora","FL","Vandalism","A new synagogue was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti."
"07/10/2011","Seattle","WA","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National 
Socialist Movement were left on 
car windshields in a mall parking 
lot."
"07/10/2011","Seattle","WA","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement were left on car windshields in a mall parking lot."
"07/09/2011","Chattanooga","TN","Harassment","Three men threw ignited fireworks from a moving vehicle while shouting racial slurs."
"07/09/2011","Seattle","WA","Leafletting","Fliers from the white supremacist 
Northwest Front were left on doors, 
gates and mailboxes."
"07/09/2011","Seattle","WA","Leafletting","Fliers from the white supremacist Northwest Front were left on doors, gates and mailboxes."
"07/08/2011","Belleville","IL","Harassment","A white man allegedly used racial epithets to 
incite a fight with a 14-year-old youth. Kevin T. 
Malone, 51, was charged on July 18 with two counts of 
hate crime and the teen was charged with 
disorderly conduct."
"07/08/2011","Berea","KY","Vandalism","Racial slurs were spray-painted on the vehicles of an interracial couple."
"07/08/2011","Westover","MD","Leafletting","Fliers promoting a Ku Klux Klan event in Virginia were distributed."
"07/07/2011","Chicago","IL","Legal Developments","Mack Heard, 17; Kenneth Towner, 18, and a 14-year-old boy were each charged with one felony count of hate crime and one misdemeanor count of aggravated assault in a public place after they allegedly used slurs and threatened a man."
"07/06/2011","New York","NY","Harassment","Two women allegedly yelled ethnic slurs and 
assaulted a woman of Pakistani origin who 
was wearing a hijab. Antoinette S. Ivey, 32, 
was charged with third-degree assault as a 
hate crime."
"07/06/2011","Danville","VA","Vandalism","Swastikas were painted on the door and sidewalk of a synagogue."
"07/05/2011","Phoenix","AZ","Legal Developments","Gary Thomas Kelley, 51, was 
sentenced to 20 years in 
prison for murder and 7 1/2 years 
for aggravated assault for the May 
2010 shooting death of his Latino 
neighbor Juan Varela. Police said 
before shooting Varela Kelley 
repeatedly used a racial slur and 
told Varela to `go back to 
Mexico` 
or he would die. The incident 
occurred less than two weeks 
after 
Arizona's controversial immigrant 
bill was passed."
"07/03/2011","Columbus","GA","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National 
Alliance were left at businesses."
"07/03/2011","Columbus","GA","Leafletting","Fliers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left at businesses."
"07/02/2011","Colorado Springs","CO","Assault","A group of people, including two gay 
soldiers, were allegedly beaten by a 
group 
of black men who yelled anti-gay 
epithets."
"06/30/2011","Lancaster","CA","Vandalism","Anti-gay graffiti that advocated killing homosexuals was spray-painted on three businesses."
"06/30/2011","Meiners Oaks","CA","Legal Developments","Two teens, one of them Latino, were allegedly threatened by a man and a woman. Self-identified skinhead Daniel Dockery, 22, was charged with suspicion of making criminal threats, a hate crime enhancement and possession of a controlled substance after he allegedly said he hated `Mexicans,` shouted racial and sexual slurs at the youths and slapped one in the face. Shauna Criner, 29, was charged with suspicion of making criminal threats and possession of a controlled substance."
"06/30/2011","Sheboygan","WI","Threat","Neo-Nazi material and a series of threatening notes claiming that bombs had been placed in police and army buildings and that the city would be destroyed were left at a public library."
"06/28/2011","Springfield","MA","Assault","A gay man allegedly was beaten by nine people, some of whom yelled anti-gay slurs. Shay Andre Edwards, 19, and eight juveniles were charged with robbery and civil rights violation with injury."
"06/28/2011","Brooklyn","NY","Assault","A Turkish man and woman were allegedly attacked by a next-door neighbor who yelled anti-Arab slurs and called them terrorists. Simchon Schwartz, 46, was charged with felony assault and felony criminal mischief, both as hate crimes; resisting arrest, obstructing police, menacing and harassment after he allegedly shoved the woman against a car and poured beer on her head and then punched her husband in the face."
"06/28/2011","Beaumont","TX","Legal Developments","Carl Carver, a leader in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murders of an Aryan Brotherhood member and his girlfriend over a drug debt in 2007."
"06/27/2011","Turtletown","TN","Harassment","An interracial couple's dog was found dead with a rope tied several times around its neck more than a week after a piece of a cinder block with a  racist death threat was thrown through a window of their mobile home."
"06/26/2011","Chicago","IL","Vandalism","Tires on floats in the annual gay pride parade were punctured the day after the New York state senate voted to legalize gay marriage."
"06/26/2011","Huntingdon","PA","Assault","Kory R. Hook, 20, and Joshua T. Wirt, 21, were charged with burglary, criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass and simple assault for allegedly beating a man in his home. Hook faces additional charges of aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly using a racial epithet against the victim."
"06/25/2011","Pittsburgh","PA","Legal Developments","White supremacist Richard Poplawski, 24, was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and 25 other crimes in connection for the deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers in a 2009 ambush. He was given three consecutive death sentences."
"06/24/2011","Sapulpa","OK","Cross Burnings","A burned cross was left on the lawn of a black church."
"06/23/2011","New York","NY","Legal Developments","Six teenagers were each charged with murder as a hate crime for allegedly making anti-gay remarks and then beating and stomping to death an 18-year-old youth the teens believed to be homosexual."
"06/22/2011","Bridgeport","CT","Legal Developments","William Bolton, 32, a former member of the white supremacist group Battalion 14, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and three years of supervised release for robbery, conspiracy and sale of a firearm to a felon after he participated in a plan to sell a sawed-off rifle to members of the Ku Klux Klan in 2010."
"06/21/2011","Santa Monica","CA","Harassment","Members of a high school wrestling team chained an African-American teammate to a locker and hung a noose around a brown wrestling dummy."
"06/21/2011","Newark","NJ","Legal Developments","Alrashim Chamber, 24, was indicted on murder and bias intimidation charges for allegedly killing Victoria Carmen White, a transgender woman he met at a nightclub in September 2010."
"06/21/2011","Beaumont","TX","Legal Developments","Charles Cameron Frazier, 29, was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a 2007 murders of a man and woman ordered by a leader of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas."
"06/19/2011","Santa Ana","CA","Legal Developments","Marten Joseph Brandel, 45, was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime for allegedly hanging a noose in the doorway of a gay rights organization in October."
"06/16/2011","Turtletown","TN","Threat","A piece of a cinder block with a racist death threat taped to it was thrown through the window of an interracial couple's mobile home."
"06/15/2011","Poolesville","MD","Legal Developments","Two 16-year-olds and a 14-year- old were charged with burglary and destruction of property for allegedly spray-painting graffiti that included racist references on the walls, windows and basketball court at a high school."
"06/13/2011","Poolesville","MD","Vandalism","Graffiti that included a swastika, an ethnic slur and the letters `KKK` was spray- painted on the basketball court and outside walls and windows of a high school."
"06/12/2011","Boise","ID","Vandalism","Anti-Semitic graffiti was written on a Jewish center."
"06/10/2011","Los Angeles","CA","Legal Developments","A 25-year-old gang member has been sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years in the racially-motivated drive-by killing of a bowling alley employee."
"06/09/2011","Van Nuys","CA","Legal Developments","Reported Latino gang member Martin Soleto, 25, was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years for his part in the 2008 racially motivated drive-by killing of a black man. Richard Bordelon, the alleged shooter, was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 47 years to life."
"06/09/2011","Vancouver","WA","Legal Developments","Former Aryan Nations member Zachary Beck, 32, was convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights for shouting racial epithets while attacking a black man in a Vancouver bar in January 2010."
"06/07/2011","Moline","IL","Assault","Four Hispanic teens were accused of attacking two black teens with bats and bricks."
"06/06/2011","Murfreesboro","TN","Vandalism","The words `white power` were written on a black couple's car."
"06/05/2011","Elk Grove","CA","Legal Developments","Joel Olivarez, 30, was charged with aggravated battery as a hate crime after he allegedly shouted anti-gay slurs and attacked a man in the parking lot of a bowling alley."
"06/05/2011","Queens","NY","Assault","Gustavo Rojas, 26; Abel Cabrera- Rojas, 31; and Luis Franco, 27, were arrested for allegedly using anti-gay epithets and punching and kicking two women and one man after a gay pride parade."
"06/01/2011","Woburn","MA","Legal Developments","William Tronsen, 41, pleaded guilty to charges of attempted arson of a dwelling, attempt to burn a motor vehicle, civil rights violation, malicious destruction of property and filing a false police report after he screamed racial slurs as he attempted to set fire to a duplex where his ex-wife, who is black, and his Cambodian neighbors lived in December 2009."
"06/01/2011","New York","NY","Threat","Javier Ortiz Jr., 16, was charged with menacing and aggravated harassment, along with weapons possession and hate crime charges, after he and six other people allegedly used anti-gay slurs and threatened to beat up a man."
"05/31/2011","Lowell","MA","Legal Developments","Shamon J. Jarrett, 45, was charged with two counts of civil rights violations for allegedly yelling racial slurs at a Latino police officer who intervened in a confrontation between Jarrett and another man, who said Jarrett told him to `go back to (his) country.`"
"05/25/2011","Beaumont","TX","Legal Developments","Brent Stalsby, 30, was sentenced to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering activity for murdering a man and woman in 2007 on the orders of a leader in the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood of Texas."
"05/23/2011","St. Cloud","MN","Assault","Three men were arrested for attacking a gay man."
"05/22/2011","Palo Alto","CA","Vandalism","Swastikas were painted on three cars."
"05/22/2011","St. Paul","MN","Vandalism","Five large, upside-down crosses were painted across the main entrance of the Cathedral of St. Paul."
"05/22/2011","Portland","OR","Assault","A group assaulted two men after seeing them walking together holding hands."
"05/20/2011","Little Rock","AR","Legal Developments","Frankie Maybee was found guilty of five counts of committing a federal hate crime and one count of conspiring to commit a federal hate crime in connection with a June 2010 attack on five Latino men. Maybee and another man followed the Latino men's vehicle and rammed it with their truck, causing the men's vehicle to crash and burst into flames. All five men were injured."
"05/18/2011","Calabasas","CA","Legal Developments","Three high school students were charged with vandalizing their campus with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti."
"05/17/2011","Kenton County","KY","Legal Developments","Devlin Burke, a white supremacist, was convicted of committing a hate crime for attacking four people outside a gay-friendly bar."
"05/17/2011","New York","NY","Legal Developments","Ahmed Ferhani was indicted for plotting to blow up a synagogue."
"05/16/2011","Little Rock","AR","Legal Developments","Sean Popejoy, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of committing a hate crime and a second conspiracy count in connection with a June 2010 attack on five Latino men. Popejoy and another man  followed the Latino men's vehicle and rammed it with their truck, causing the men's vehicle to crash and burst into flames. All five men were injured."
"05/16/2011","Fouke","AR","Vandalism","Racist comments and swastikas were painted on the exterior of a church."
"05/14/2011","Vallejo","CA","Vandalism","Racial epithets were written on the doorway and mailbox of a community radio station founded by a black man. The slurs were also written on a vehicle owned by the man's son."
"05/14/2011","Southfield","MI","Vandalism","A vehicle owned by a Muslim man of Indian heritage was vandalized and an ethnic slur was written on it."
"05/14/2011","Binghamton","NY","Vandalism","A swastika was spray-painted on the walkway of a bridge."
"05/07/2011","Montgomery","NJ","Vandalism","A racial epithet was spray-painted on a wall outside a high school."
"05/04/2011","Santa Monica","CA","Assault","A black high school student allegedly found a brown mannequin with a noose tied around its neck in the school's wrestling practice room. The student then was allegedly chained to a locker by two fellow members of the wrestling team who made racial remarks."
"05/03/2011","Escondido","CA","Assault","Richard Jason Mazon, 18, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, exhibiting a deadly weapon, criminal threats, a hate crime and carrying a concealed weapon for allegedly threatening a black man with a hatchet and yelling racial epithets at him in a parking lot."
"05/03/2011","Orcutt","CA","Vandalism","Racist graffiti was scrawled on walls at an elementary school."
"05/03/2011","Tampa","FL","Legal Developments","Marc A. Balentine, 42, a reported member of the white supremacist European Kindred, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for selling pipe bombs to undercover agents. Balentine pleaded guilty to the crime in January."
"05/02/2011","Portland","ME","Vandalism","Anti-Islamic graffiti was painted on the city's largest mosque following the death of Osama bin Laden."
"04/28/2011","Lacompte","LA","Legal Developments","Johnny Mathis, 47, pleaded guilty to interfering with the right to fair housing and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Mathis fired a gun at the home of three Latino neighbors in 2008 during a racially motivated attack."
"04/28/2011","Shreveport","LA","Legal Developments","Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and Joshua James Moro, 23, were sentenced to a year and a day in prison for their roles in a 2008 cross burning near the home of an interracial couple."
"04/27/2011","Arroyo Grande","CA","Legal Developments","Two 15-year-olds and one 14- year-old were arrested on suspicion of hate speech, burglary, vandalism and criminal conspiracy after graffiti that included swastikas and racial and ethnic slurs was written in classrooms at a middle school where the teens had been former students."
"04/25/2011","Davie","FL","Assault","A gay man was allegedly punched and kicked by a man who shouted anti-gay epithets. John William Koontz, 62, was charged with aggravated battery and a hate crime. The victim also alleged Koontz verbally harassed him in the past."
"04/24/2011","Fort Gratiot","MI","Leafletting","Plastic Easter eggs containing fliers from the white supremacist Nationalist Coalition and the Northwest Front were left on lawns."
"04/23/2011","Stockton","CA","Arson","A mosque was set afire."
"04/23/2011","Calabasas","CA","Vandalism","Swastikas and anti-Semitic and racial epithets were spray-painted on doors, walls, sidewalks and a stop sign on a high school campus. Three students were arrested on suspicion of vandalism."
"04/22/2011","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Federal hate crime charges were added against Kevin William Harpham, a white supremacist suspected of planting a bomb along the Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. parade route."
"04/21/2011","Moorhead","MN","Leafletting","Fliers with racist comments and the website address of a white supremacist group were placed around the campus of Minnesota State University-Moorhead."
"04/20/2011","Chicago","IL","Legal Developments","William A. White, founder of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party, was freed after spending more than two years in prison. This followed a judge's decision to throw out a January jury decision that convicted White of using his website to encourage violence against the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist in 2004."
"04/19/2011","Trenton","NJ","Legal Developments","Dharun Ravi was indicted on bias intimidation and other charges after a series of events led to the suicide of his college roommate, Tyler Clementi."
"04/19/2011","Springfield","TN","Vandalism","""KKK"" was painted on a black couple's mailbox."
"04/17/2011","Houma","LA","Vandalism","William Blackford, 52, was charged with simple criminal damage to property and committing a hate crime for allegedly kicking a glass door of a shop out because the owners are Muslim. Police said Blackford called them to say he did it because of the owners' heritage, saying, `I want to kill them all. We need to get them out of our country.`"
"04/16/2011","Trenton","NJ","Rally","The neo-nazi group NSM rallied at the capital."
"04/14/2011","Hardy","AR","Legal Developments","Five people were indicted on charges related to the fire-bombing of an interracial couple's home."
"04/14/2011","Springfield","MA","Legal Developments","A white man was convicted for the racially motived burning of a predominantly black church just hours after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008."
"04/13/2011","Wisconsin Dells","WI","Vandalism","Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Native American church."
"04/09/2011","Plains","OH","Leafletting","KKK fliers were left in yards."
"04/09/2011","Rock Hill","SC","Assault","Bobby Wilson, 30; Cortezio Laquise Douglas and Darenco Markie Wilmore, both 21; and Lajames Mitchell and Lortarius Duncan, both 22, were all charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature for allegedly calling a gay man an anti-gay slur then hitting him in the head with a beer bottle and beating him."
"04/06/2011","Coto de Caza","CA","Assault","A man was allegedly beaten and robbed in a park by two men who shouted anti-Semitic epithets. Matthew Gregory Branstetter and Nolan John Wickham, both 19, were charged with aggravated assault and second-degree robbery with hate crime enhancements."
"03/16/2011","Hardy","AR","Legal Developments","Two racist skinheads were arrested for throwing a molotov cocktail at an interracial couple's home."
"03/16/2011","Bonita Springs","FL","Leafletting","The neo-Nazi group American National Socialist Party left 200 pamphlets in a neighborhood."
"03/16/2011","Bloomington","IL","Leafletting","The Ku Klux Klan left pamphlets in driveways."
"03/14/2011","Queens","NY","Murder","A teenager was beaten to death by five other teenagers after he left a party hosted by two gay men."
"03/07/2011","Martinsville","IN","Leafletting","Copies of the Ku Klux Klan publication The Crusader were left in driveways."
"03/07/2011","Sellersburg","IN","Assault","A gay teen was assaulted in a school restroom. His assailant used anti-gay slurs during the attack."
"03/06/2011","Casa Grande","AZ","Vandalism","The words ""we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children"" was painted on the side of a house. The phrase is known as the ""14 words"" among white supremacists."
"03/04/2011","York","PA","Leafletting","The neo-Nazi National Socialist American Labor Party group distributed fliers."
"03/04/2011","Orange County","VA","Leafletting","KKK Fliers were left in driveways."
"03/04/2011","Seattle","WA","Legal Developments","Jonathan Baquiring was sentenced to six years in prison for attacking a West Seattle teen. Baquiring and Ahmed Mohamed attacked the teen ""because he was a different race than we are,"" according to Mohamed's guilty plea for the same crime in December 2010. The victim is white."
"03/03/2011","Los Angeles","CA","Vandalism","A swastika was drawn on the sidewalk in front of a landmark Jewish Temple."
"03/03/2011","Marengo","OH","Cross Burnings","A burned cross was left in a front yard. The phrase ""KKK will make you pay"" was carved into the cross."
"03/02/2011","Springettsbury Township","PA","Leafletting","The neo-Nazi National Socialist American Labor Party left brochures on cars."
"02/27/2011","Lafayette","LA","Vandalism","Racial slurs were spray painted on the Immaculate Heart of Mary church and school."
"02/23/2011","Pikeville","KY","Leafletting","Ku Klux Klan membership applications were distributed around town."
"02/23/2011","Wilkes Barre","PA","Legal Developments","Two men were sentenced to nine years in prison for beating and kicking a Mexican immigrant to death."
"02/23/2011","Fort Worth","TX","Legal Developments","A man was indicted for vandalizing a mosque."
"02/22/2011","Pima County","AZ","Legal Developments","Shawna Forde, leader of the Minutemen American Defense, was sentenced to death in the killing of a 9-year-old girl and her father."
"02/21/2011","Spokane","WA","Vandalism","A burned bible and painted swastikas were found on vehicles and a house."
"02/18/2011","Long Beach","CA","Vandalism","A man was arrested for vandalizing gay and lesbian-owned businesses."
"02/15/2011","Tamarac","FL","Assault","Three men called a gay man ""faggot"" and ""gay boy,"" then punched him in the face."
"02/14/2011","Burbank","CA","Leafletting","Flyers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left on lawns."
"02/14/2011","Lafayette","LA","Vandalism","Racist graffiti was painted on St. James Baptist Church."
"02/14/2011","Columbia","MO","Vandalism","A University of Missouri-Columbia student sprayed racist graffiti, including the N-word, on school property."
"02/12/2011","Gate City","VA","Rally","Several Ku Klux Klan members and supporters gathered to protest the recent discipline of three white students."
"02/10/2011","Pittsburgh","PA","Legal Developments","A teenager pleaded guilty to burning a cross in the yard of a mixed-race family in November 2009."
"02/07/2011","New York","NY","Harassment","A black firefighter who filed a bias complaint found a noose hanging on his locker."
"02/06/2011","Tampa","FL","Assault","A Muslim man was stabbed after a discussion about religion."
"02/05/2011","Franconia","PA","Vandalism","Swastikas and ""Jew"" were spray painted onto a house and cars."
"02/04/2011","Opelika","AL","Assault","A lesbian and her friend were beaten up by several people at a bar because of her sexual orientation."
"02/02/2011","Hollywood","CA","Vandalism","A Church's sign supporting marriage equality was vandalized."
"01/30/2011","Rowland Heights","CA","Vandalism","Racist graffiti was painted on two local churches."
"01/29/2011","Tacoma","WA","Legal Developments","A white supremacist was sentenced to 34 months in prison for a racially motivated attack on a black man in a bar."
"01/27/2011","Wauwatosa","MN","Leafletting","Several homes received white supremacist hate literature."
"01/27/2011","Raleigh","NC","Harassment","A man is being charged with ethnic intimidation after he pulled a knife on a woman while using racist language."
"01/26/2011","Phoenix","AZ","Legal Developments","A man with ties to the National Socialist Movement was arrested for possession of explosive devices."
"01/26/2011","San Francisco","CA","Threat","State Senator Yee received death threats including a graphic of an American flag adorned pickup truck dragging a noose."
"01/26/2011","Shreveport","LA","Assault","A gay man was severely beaten with a pool cue in a bar."
"01/25/2011","San Diego","CA","Vandalism","An LGBT center was targeted in a paintball attack."
"01/25/2011","Ridgewood","NJ","Threat","A man with neo-Nazi ties was charged with threatening the director of the New York chapter of the Anti-Defamation League."
"01/25/2011","Ft. Worth","TX","Legal Developments","Timothy Stephen Lee, a leader in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for drug possession charges."
"01/24/2011","Carroll County","GA","Arson","A rock was thrown through a gay man's window then his bedroom was set on fire."
"01/17/2011","Billings","MT","Leafletting","Creativity Movement fliers were distributed during Montana State University's MLK day celebration."
"01/13/2011","Springfield","MO","Vandalism","Racist graffiti was painted on an Islamic center."
"01/12/2011","Santa Ana","CA","Vandalism","Racist graffiti was sprayed on a county building."
"01/12/2011","Anaheim","CA","Vandalism","Anti-religious graffiti was painted on a church."
"01/11/2011","Waterbury","CT","Vandalism","A large swastika was spray-painted on a synagogue."
"01/04/2011","Manhattan","NY","Threat","An Upper West Side synagogue received a bomb threat in the mail."