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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Detroit, MI
Literature from the National Alliance was distributed throughout the city.
Leafletting
08/03/2003
Woodside, NY
Three white men allegedly attacked three Sikhs while yelling 'Bin Laden! Go back to your country!'
Assault
08/03/2003
San Jose, CA
Edward Neil Crutchfield, 47, was sentenced to six months in jail on charges of disturbing the peace and violating a restraining order for harassing an Iraqi family in June.
Harassment
08/01/2003
College Park, MD
Two 17-year-old boys were charged as juveniles with the misdemeanor offenses of harassment related to religious beliefs and damaging the property of a religious entity for allegedly burning a cross outside a mosque and Islamic school.
Legal Developments
08/01/2003
Norwich, NY
A 16-year-old was charged with criminal mischief in the third degree and committing a hate crime as well as unlawful possession of marijuana for allegedly breaking windows at a Jewish center.
Vandalism
08/01/2003
Mt. Pleasant, MI
Brandon Ross Wheeler, 21, was charged with ethnic intimidation and felonious assault for allegedly using racial slurs and brandishing a 9mm pistol during a confrontation with three black men.
Intimidation
07/31/2003
Staten Island, NY
Swastikas were spray-painted on four cars in a neighborhood. A swastika also was painted on the windshield of a car and in front of Jewish resident.
Vandalism
07/31/2003
Leavenworth, KS
A racial slur and other graffiti were painted on a fence and sidewalk at a church.
Vandalism
07/30/2003
Greenfield, MA
Marcus Millett, 37, was charged with domestic assault and battery, breaking and entering in the day in order to commit a misdemeanor, intimidation of a witness, assault and battery for purpose of racial intimidation, felony malicious destruction, threat to commit murder and attempted murder after he allegedly tried to strangle his daughter's boyfriend because the man is Puerto Rican.
Assault
07/29/2003
Plymouth, MA
Jacob Stanton, 17, and his mother Cynthia Stanton were charged with a hate crime by means of threatening to commit a crime and assault to intimidate after they allegedly used racial slurs and assaulted a woman, her daughter and two others.
Assault
07/29/2003
