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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Smithville, TN
Recruiting literature from the neo-Nazi National Alliance was sent to an attorney.
Leafletting
04/23/2004
Denton, TX
A window and glass door of an Islamic Society building were shot out.
Vandalism
04/23/2004
Ventura, CA
Swastikas, racial slurs and derogatory remarks against teachers were spray- painted in a high school and and 50 door locks were glued shut.
Vandalism
04/22/2004
Springfield, MO
Steven Augustus Heldenbrand, 26, pleaded guilty to participating in a 2001 racially motivated gang attack on two black men that left one of the men seriously injured.
Legal Developments
04/22/2004
Las Cruces, NM
Leaflets from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were left on lawns.
Leafletting
04/22/2004
Springfield, VA
The letters 'KKK' were spray-painted on a dumpster behind a fire station.
Vandalism
04/22/2004
Needham, MA
Fliers from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left on lawns and driveways through the town.
Leafletting
04/21/2004
Boulder, CO
Leaflets from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were distributed throughout a neighborhood.
Leafletting
04/20/2004
Davis, CA
A freshman student was charged with possession of stolen property and a hate crime for allegedly stealing the Israeli flag from the exterior of the Davis Hillel House at the University of California.
Vandalism
04/19/2004
Newark, NJ
Windows at an Islamic center were broken, holes were punched in the wallboards, at least a dozen metal frames were bent or twisted and swastikas and sexually explicit and anti-Semitic statements were scrawled on two doors.
Vandalism
04/19/2004
