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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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Bandon, OR
Fliers from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations were placed on cars of people attending an Irish festival.
Leafletting
05/29/2004
Austin, TX
Christopher Rivers, 21, was charged with aggravated assault for allegedly attacking two interracial couples while yelling racial slurs.
Assault
05/29/2004
Manhattan, NY
A swastika was etched on an elevator wall.
Vandalism
05/28/2004
Pittsburgh, PA
Klan leader David Wayne Hull, 41, was convicted of several firearms-related charges but acquitted of possessing two pipe bombs that exploded during white supremacist gatherings in 2002.
Legal Developments
05/28/2004
Pittsburgh, PA
Justin J. Ciletti, 23, was charged with attempted arson, criminal conspiracy, manufacture of an incendiary device, ethnic intimidation and reckless endangerment for allegedly hurling a Molotov cocktail through the window of a black family's home.
Intimidation
05/28/2004
Portsmouth, NH
A Virgin Mary statue at a Catholic rectory was removed from its pedestal and hung by the neck with a garden hose.
Vandalism
05/27/2004
Dallas, TX
Curtis William Murillo, 37, was charged with aggravated assault for attacking an Iranian- American man in 2002 because of his ethnicity.
Assault
05/27/2004
Tacoma, WA
Kurtis Monschke, a 20-year-old white supremacist, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in the death of a 42-year-old homeless man.
Legal Developments
05/27/2004
Marin City, CA
Dion Ray Moore, a 27-year-old black man, was charged with a hate crime after his pitbull allegedly attacked a white plumbing repairman. Moore was charged with attempted robbery, assault with a deadly weapon (the pitbull), and assault likely to cause great bodily injury.
Assault
05/26/2004
Azusa, CA
Christopher K. Rangel, 19, and two teenage boys were charged with suspicion of committing a hate crime for allegedly yelling racial slurs at a black man.
Intimidation
05/25/2004