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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Swampscott, MA
Literature from the neo-Nazi National Alliance was left on front yards.
Leafletting
01/01/2004
Palm Beach, FL
Five black swastikas were spray-painted on the walls and furniture was slashed at a Jewish residence.
Vandalism
12/28/2003
Marlboro, NJ
Three teenage boys were charged with bias intimidation for allegedly hurling rocks through the window of a Jewish resident.
Vandalism
12/27/2003
Elkhart, IN
Alex Witmer, 22, received the maximum, 65-year prison sentence for the 1999 racially motivated killing of a black man.
Legal Developments
12/23/2003
Mount Holly, NJ
Brian C. Conrad, Stephen J. Doss and Lawrence D. Abele were sentenced for their roles in a vandalism spree against the Brazilian community in August.
Vandalism
12/19/2003
Galveston, TX
Flyers from the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed throughout a neighborhood.
Leafletting
12/18/2003
Santa Fe, TX
Flyers from the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in yards throughout the neighborhood.
Leafletting
12/18/2003
Queens, NY
Kevin McKenna, 35, was charged with allegedly setting fire to a van bearing Korean lettering because he hated Asian immigrants.
Arson
12/17/2003
Raleigh, NC
White supremacist William Franklin Brown, 41, was charged with littering for allegedly dumping a barrage of white supremacist leaflets onto the lawns of a neighborhood.
Leafletting
12/16/2003
Westlake Viliage, CA
A flag that read 'Happy Hanukkah' was burned at the home of a Holocaust survivor. Authorities have labeled the incident a hate crime.
Vandalism
12/14/2003
