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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Punta Gorda, FL
Obscenities, swastikas and satanic symbols were spray-painted on a local church.
Vandalism
05/18/2003
Mobile, AL
Literature from the Aryan Knights of the Confederacy Ku Klux Klan was distributed in a neighborhood.
Leafletting
05/17/2003
Brownsville, NY
Shawn Martin, 20, and a 15-year-old boy, both white, were arrested for an alleged racial attack on a couple.
Assault
05/17/2003
Brooklyn, NY
Several swastikas were painted on a building.
Vandalism
05/16/2003
Newark, NJ
Richard McCullough,29, was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl who was believed to be gay.
Murder
05/15/2003
Long Island, NY
Michael J. Perso, 19, was charged with second-degree robbery as a hate crime and second-degree attempted robbery as a hate crime after allegedly targeting people he believed were Mexicans.
Assault
05/13/2003
Grand Rapids, MI
Arkadiusz Szuba was sentenced to five months in jail for ethnic intimidation after he yelled racial slurs, bared his behind and punched two women who rejected his advances outside a bar.
Legal Developments
05/12/2003
Bensalem, PA
Three boys, two white 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old, attacked an 8-year-old child of Middle Eastern descent.
Assault
05/12/2003
Traverse City, MI
Four men allegedly beat a 27-year-old man because of his sexual orientation.
Assault
05/11/2003
Binghamton, NY
Neo-Nazi fliers were distributed throughout a neighborhood.
Leafletting
05/10/2003
