Hate Incidents
Incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources. These incidents include only a fraction of the approximately 191,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2005 government report estimated occur annually.
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Plainfield, IL
Nicholas Minniti, 18, was charged with a felony hate crime and aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a gay teen at a fast-food restaurant.
Assault
07/01/2012
Merrick, NY
A swastika and obscenities were written on a middle school and a swastika was scratched into a car.
Vandalism
06/30/2012
Los Angeles, CA
A gay homeless man was allegedly beaten by a man who used anti-gay slurs.
Assault
06/29/2012
Harrah, WA
Donald Dowell Gasperson was charged with malicious harassment for allegedly threatening his Mexican-American neighbors with a knife and calling them racial slurs.
Legal Developments
06/28/2012
San Luis Obispo, CA
Jeremiah Leo `Smurf` Hernandez, 33, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in a March 2011 cross burning near a black teen's residence.
Legal Developments
06/27/2012
Grand Forks, ND
A threatening anti-gay epithet was written on the back window of a car that had rainbow bumper stickers, which sometimes symbolize gay pride.
Vandalism
06/27/2012
Bass River, NJ
Nicholas Comis, 23, and Daniel Enders, 22, were sentenced to 270 days and 180 days in prison respectively for burning a cross near a black family's residence in 2011.
Legal Developments
06/27/2012
Guerneville, CA
A man leaving a gay bar was allegedly beaten by a man who used anti-gay slurs.
Assault
06/26/2012
Washington, DC
A 16-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed by three people who yelled anti-gay slurs. Ali M. Jackson, Alvonica Jackson and Desmond Campbell were each charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Assault
06/26/2012
Baltimore, MD
Dena Whedbee, 42, and Brittany Whedbee, 20, each pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to deprive a person of civil rights and one count of violating the Fair Housing Act for helping to hang a dead raccoon on the porch of a family from Africa in 2010.
Legal Developments
06/26/2012
