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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Dallas, TX
Five men allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs and beat two men on the street.
Assault
03/13/2012
Washington, DC
A gay man was attacked on the street and a transgender woman was assaulted later the same night.
Arson
03/12/2012
Clinton, TN
Ricky Lynn Hawkins, 34, who allegedly has ties to the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, was sentenced to eight years in prison for aggravated assault, five years for civil rights intimidation and a year for an earlier assault for using racial slurs and breaking a black man's arm with a baseball bat in July 2010.
Legal Developments
03/12/2012
Richmond Heights, MO
A 24-year-old man was arrested for spray-painting "KKK" graffiti on two homes and a fence over the weekend and causing other damage in a Richmond Heights neighborhood, police said Monday. The man also spray-painted the last name of President Barack Obama, police say. The man is in a hospital psychiatric ward for evaluation, according to police. (via http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/man-arrested-for-spray-painting-kkk-and-obama-on-homes/article_f2b65f1f-2a4c-51a1-8902-b114bf818d18.html)
Vandalism
03/09/2012
Independence, MO
Charles Wilhelm and David Martin, both 23, pled guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights and to violation of the Fair Housing Act for writing racist epithets in a black man's mobile home and later setting it afire in 2006.
Legal Developments
03/08/2012
Norwalk, NH
Emmanuel Montanez, 24, was charged with intimidation based on bigotry or race, first-degree threatening and breach of peace for allegedly threatening to kill a woman because she was Puerto Rican.
Legal Developments
03/08/2012
Deerfield Beach, FL
Anti-Semitic notes were left outside a restaurant between December 2011 and the end of February.
Intimidation
03/06/2012
Fort Worth, TX
Timothy York, 35, a self- professed member of the United Aryan Brotherhood, was sentenced to 63 months in custody for beating his Jewish cellmate at a federal prison in 2007.
Legal Developments
03/06/2012
Maricopa, AZ
Racial epithets and references to the Ku Klux Klan and Adolf Hitler were painted on a high school.
Vandalism
03/05/2012
Bushnell, FL
Jewish headstones in a veterans' cemetery were vandalized.
Vandalism
03/05/2012
