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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Skokie, IL
A white couple was allegedly attacked by three black teens who yelled racist remarks at them.
Assault
06/25/2012
Arlington, TX
Morgen Aubuchon, 18, was charged with felony graffiti for her alleged part in spray-painting racial and anti-gay slurs on vehicles and residences in a neighborhood earlier in the month.
Legal Developments
06/25/2012
Portland, TX
Two teenage lesbians were shot in a park. Mollie Olgin, 19, was found dead laying by her girlfriend, Mary Chapa, 18, who was wounded.
Murder
06/23/2012
Los Angeles, CA
Swastikas and the words `white power` were written on garage doors of several residences on a street in Baldwin Hills.
Vandalism
06/22/2012
New York, NY
Michael Daragjati, a former New York police officer, was sentenced to 57 months in prison for violating a black man's civil rights in 2011 by fabricating charges against him of resisting arrest and using racial slurs.
Legal Developments
06/22/2012
Columbus, OH
Brandon Rhodes, 21, was sentenced to 30 days in prison for his part in burning a cross on a black family's lawn in 2011.
Legal Developments
06/22/2012
Murfreesboro, TN
Javier Correa was charged with interfering with the religious freedom of members of a mosque by threatening to use force against them when he allegedly left a racist message threatening to bomb the building in 2011. Correa was also charged with threatening to use an explosive device to interfere.
Legal Developments
06/21/2012
Florence, SC
Chase McClary, 23, pleaded guilty to committing a federal hate crime for beating and slashing a black teen in 2010.
Legal Developments
06/20/2012
Bayview, ID
Self-proclaimed racist skinhead Daren Abbey, 29, was sentenced to up to five years in prison for threatening to stab a black man.
Legal Developments
06/19/2012
Kansas City, MO
Teresa Witthar, 43, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for participating in writing racial slurs inside a biracial man's mobile home in 2006 in an attempt to make him move.
Legal Developments
06/18/2012
