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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Scottsbluff, NE
Flyers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance were distributed throughout a neighborhood.
Leafletting
08/19/2003
Central Islip, NY
David Humann, 18, was charged with second-degree menacing as a hate crime after he allegedly threatened two men and pulled a knife on one of them after he heard them speaking a foreign language at a gas station.
Harassment
08/18/2003
Omaha, NE
Flyers from the neo-Nazi National Alliance was distributed throughout the neighborhood.
Leafletting
08/17/2003
Washington, DC
Antoine Jacobs, 22, was charged with first-degree murder while armed, and hate and gender bias for allegedly killing a Hispanic man who dressed as a woman.
Murder
08/16/2003
Central Falls, RI
William J. Monroy, 21, was charged with committing a hate crime as a simple assault after he allegedly used racial epithets and assaulted a man who was dressed as a woman.
Assault
08/16/2003
Ann Arbor, MI
A swastika and obscene phrases and pictures were painted on the walls of a building belonging to a Jewish student group and on the sidewalk in front of the building.
Vandalism
08/15/2003
Veneta, OR
Several pieces of property in a neighborhood were spray-painted with profanity and hate epithets.
Vandalism
08/14/2003
Doylestown, PA
A swastika and the word 'Nazi' were written on a swing at a local playground.
Vandalism
08/14/2003
Villa Park, IL
A 16-year-old teenage boy was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and write an essay on respecting other races and religions for his role in terrorizing worshippers at a local mosque.
Legal Developments
08/13/2003
Medford, OR
Andrew Lee Patterson, 24, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison under Measure 11, for attacking two homeless men earlier this year.
Legal Developments
08/13/2003
