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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Reidsville, NC
Fliers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan inviting people to a rally were left in driveways.
Leafletting
05/19/2012
Grand Haven, MI
Kenneth Schmidt, 56, was charged with ethnic intimidation for allegedly scrawling a racial slur on a wall at an apartment complex on May 8.
Legal Developments
05/18/2012
Novato, CA
A 17-year-old boy was charged with suspicion of criminal threats after he allegedly called a Latino woman racist names and threatened to kill her.
Threat
05/16/2012
Richmond, VA
A noose was found hanging from a tree at a local high school.
Intimidation
05/16/2012
Elmhurst, IL
Myles Burton, 21, a former basketball player at Elmhurst College, was convicted of a felony hate crime for etching the letters `KKK` and racist remarks on the home of the school's only black dorm supervisor in November.
Legal Developments
05/15/2012
Grand Rapids, MI
Eric Pierson was sentenced to nine months in jail for using racial slurs and pulling a knife on a black man in Solon Township in December 2011.
Legal Developments
05/15/2012
Haddon Township, NJ
Racist graffiti was spray-painted on homes and cars in a historically black neighborhood.
Vandalism
05/13/2012
Visalia, CA
Joseph Regalado, 21, and a teenage boy were arrested for allegedly making anti-gay remarks to an 18- year-old boy at a party and then stabbing him.
Assault
05/12/2012
Novi, MI
A lesbian couple's residence was set afire and graffiti was written inside.
Arson
05/12/2012
Sacramento, CA
Two gay men who were holding hands were beaten by two men, one of whom used anti-gay slurs.
Assault
05/11/2012
