"Date","City","State","Type","Description"
"09/12/2012","Spokane","WA","Assault","A white man allegedly yelled racial slurs at three black teens, chased them and threatened them with a gun, firing at least one shot. Jimmy J. Blackburn, 29, was charged with attempted second- degree murder."
"09/07/2012","Lake Chelan","WA","Vandalism","Cars belonging to a group of Muslim students vacationing at a lake were vandalized and had racial slurs etched into them."
"08/01/2012","Beacon Hill","WA","Assault","At least three people were allegedly attacked by a man who yelled racist slurs. Eric Gibbs, 37, was charged with committing a hate crime."
"07/17/2012","West Seattle","WA","Vandalism","A man was charged with malicious harassment and malicious mischief after he allegedly smashed a window of a Muslim community center and said he committed the act because he hates Muslims."
"06/28/2012","Harrah","WA","Legal Developments","Donald Dowell Gasperson was charged with malicious harassment for allegedly threatening his Mexican-American neighbors with a knife and calling them racial slurs."
"05/26/2012","Spokane","WA","Vandalism","Anti-Semitic and anti-Christian slurs were spray-painted on several campaign signs for a candidate who is a vocal supporter of Israel and the Jewish community."
"03/16/2012","Everett","WA","Legal Developments","David Pedersen, a 31-year-old white supremacist, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing his father and stepmother in October. Pedersen could still be charged in the murders of an Oregon teenager and a Eureka man."
"03/05/2012","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Sean D. Slechta, 38, was charged with malicious harassment for allegedly yelling anti-gay slurs at a bartender and customers and then throwing a glass at the bartender."
"02/19/2012","Kendall","WA","Assault","William Scot Anderson, 47, was charged with two counts of felony assault and one count of malicious harassment for allegedly using racial slurs and threatening a black man with a machete, then attempting to run him over with his vehicle."
"02/07/2012","Bellingham","WA","Legal Developments","Stephen Douglas Roberts, 59, was arrested on investigation of first- degree assault and malicious harassment for allegedly pointing a gun at his neighbor and yelling anti-gay slurs at him."
"01/20/2012","Spokane","WA","Legal Developments","Deven James-Allen Hood, 19, was charged with two counts of first- degree robbery, two counts of malicious harassment, four counts of second-degree assault and one count each of third-degree malicious mischief and attempted first-degree robbery for allegedly smashing a Latino man's truck window, then punching the man and calling him racial slurs. Hood and his brothers, Jeaun Don Hood, 17, and a 15-year-old later allegedly stole a truck and yelled racial slurs as they attacked a woman and two men. Jeaun Hood was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one count each of malicious harassment and first-degree robbery. The 15-year-old brother faces charges in juvenile court."