"Date","City","State","Type","Description"
"10/31/2012","Des Moines","IA","Legal Developments","A Des Moines woman who claims she was subjected to racial slurs by co-workers, including finding a doll whose face was painted black hanging outside her home with threats to quit her job at Deere & Co., has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company. (via http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-31/iowa-woman-sues-deere-alleging-race-discrimination)"
"08/23/2012","Fort Dodge","IA","Vandalism","Racist epithets were spray-painted on a black family's mobile home."
"05/07/2012","Cedar Falls","IA","Legal Developments","Joshua Beyer, 27, pled guilty to two counts of criminal mischief for spray-painting racist and anti- Semitic graffiti on a highway sign in 2010. He was given a 10-year suspended prison sentence and placed on two to five years' probation."
"02/21/2012","Cedar Rapids","IA","Vandalism","The letters `KKK` were written on vehicles, mailboxes and garage doors in a neighborhood."
"01/07/2012","Cedar Rapids","IA","Leafletting","Fliers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left on driveways and lawns."