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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Buffalo, NY
Two women used anti-gay epithets while they threatened, beat, and robbed a 20-year-old gay man.
Assault
12/31/2009
Costa Mesa, CA
"Ronald Allen Bramlett, a 65-year-old white man, was charged with felony aggravated assault, criminal threats and an enhancement of an alleged hate crime for allegedly calling a black teenager racial slurs and threatening him with a knife."
Assault
12/29/2009
La Porte, IN
A window was broken and racial slurs were written in front of a predominately African American church.
Vandalism
12/29/2009
Queens, NY
A Hispanic man beat a black man while saying, "Black dudes don't belong here," and anti-black slurs.
Assault
12/27/2009
Lancaster, PA
"Victor Manuel Fallas Jr., 29, was charged with ethnic intimidation, harassment, defiant trespass, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after he caused a disturbance at a bar and then yelled derogatory racial slurs at a police officer."
Legal Developments
12/27/2009
Edison, NJ
A swastika was drawn on a restroom door inside a public library.
Vandalism
12/26/2009
Oshkosh, WI
Large black swastikas were painted on a synagogue and a Methodist church.
Vandalism
12/24/2009
Mishawaka, IN
"Bruce Kikulyuk, 50, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for burning a cross in the yard of a black man and a white woman and using racial slurs and threatening the black man with a knife in September 2007."
Legal Developments
12/22/2009
Huntington Beach, CA
Three white supremacists who stabbed a Latino man in an unprovoked attack pleaded guilty to multiple felonies and were sentenced to prison terms.
Legal Developments
12/20/2009
Albany, LA
"Seven people were arrested in connection with an incident where two men were allegedly lured to a residence on the pretext of having sex with a woman, then once there were beaten and targeted with racist threats. Calvin Michael Arnone, 22, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery, two counts of hate crimes and an outstanding warrant on one count of possession of drug paraphernalia; Lance J. Cheramie, 25, was charged with two counts false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery, two counts of hate crimes and one count of possession of drugs; Marie Michelle Cheramie, 23, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery, two counts of hate crimes and three counts of child desertion; Carla D. Hughes, 41, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery, two counts of hate crimes and one count of armed robbery; Crystal Hughes, 21, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery and two counts of hate crimes; Johnny Keith Hughes, 43, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery and two count of hate crimes; and Joshua David Kiger, 25, was charged with two counts of false imprisonment, two counts of aggravated second-degree battery, two counts of hate crimes, one count of possession of drugs, one count of armed robbery and an outstanding warrant on one count of not wearing a seat belt."
Legal Developments
12/20/2009
