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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Sterling, IL
Swastikas were spray-painted on playground equipment at a park.
Vandalism
04/27/2003
Glen Burnie, MD
Garth Lewis Swimm III, 18, and three 17-year-olds were charged with harassment, which police labeled a hate crime, and disrupting school activities for allegedly spray-painting racist slurs and posting racist fliers at a high school.
Vandalism
04/26/2003
Maybrook, NY
Hate messages were spray-painted on the residences, vehicles and mailboxes of minority families.
Vandalism
04/26/2003
Readington Twp., NJ
Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were carved on the front doors of a synagogue.
Vandalism
04/25/2003
Chicago, IL
Racial slurs and obscenities were spray-painted on a black man's home.
Vandalism
04/24/2003
Wood Dale, IL
Racist and obscene words were spray-painted on a black man's residence.
Vandalism
04/24/2003
Anaheim, CA
A group of teenagers allegedly attacked an 18-year-old Lebanese-American teen.
Assault
04/23/2003
Oneonta, NY
Ralph S. May,49, was charged with second-degree menacing for allegedly threatening a black man with a baseball bat.
Threat
04/22/2003
Manhattan, NY
Hate-filled e-mails targeting blacks, Arabs and Muslims flooded the inboxes of undergraduate students during a recent hacking spree at NYU's Stern School of Business.
Harassment
04/22/2003
Brooklyn, NY
Max Abrahamowitz, 29, allegedly assaulted a Muslim woman while yelling racial slurs.
Assault
04/22/2003
