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  • Reported October 25, 2011
    Assault
    Westminster, California
    Jennifer Renee Vanveldhuizen, 36, pleaded guilty to a felony count of hate-crime battery causing injury for yelling racial slurs at a Latino maintenance worker then punching him in the face in Huntington Beach on Oct. 4. Vanveldhuizen was sentenced to three years of probation, 90 days in an alcohol rehabilitation program and a 10- week anger management program.

  • Reported October 21, 2011
    Assault
    San Francisco, California
    An interracial couple pushing their two children in a stroller was allegedly attacked by a man who made a comment about the race of their children, punched the man and woman and kicked the stroller, striking one of the children in the head. Hosea Matavao, 48, was charged with three counts of assault, one count of endangering a child and one count of battery. Four of the charges have hate crime allegations attached.

  • Reported October 17, 2011
    Assault
    San Francisco, California
    Three men were allegedly beaten outside a restaurant by five men who yelled anti-gay slurs.

  • Reported October 04, 2011
    Assault
    Ingleside, California
    Kevin Guerin allegedly punched and choked his neighbor while using anti- gay slurs.

  • Reported September 20, 2011
    Assault
    Sacramento, California
    A black man allegedly yelled sexual epithets at two men who were holding hands and then struck one of the men in the head with a sharp object.

  • Reported September 17, 2011
    Assault
    Davis, California
    Peter Lloyd Zuniga, 25, was charged with felony assault and committing a hate crime after he allegedly beat and kicked a female convenience store clerk because of her Russian heritage.

  • Reported May 04, 2011
    Assault
    Santa Monica, California
    A black high school student allegedly found a brown mannequin with a noose tied around its neck in the school's wrestling practice room. The student then was allegedly chained to a locker by two fellow members of the wrestling team who made racial remarks.

  • Reported May 03, 2011
    Assault
    Escondido, California
    Richard Jason Mazon, 18, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, exhibiting a deadly weapon, criminal threats, a hate crime and carrying a concealed weapon for allegedly threatening a black man with a hatchet and yelling racial epithets at him in a parking lot.

  • Reported April 06, 2011
    Assault
    Coto de Caza, California
    A man was allegedly beaten and robbed in a park by two men who shouted anti-Semitic epithets. Matthew Gregory Branstetter and Nolan John Wickham, both 19, were charged with aggravated assault and second-degree robbery with hate crime enhancements.

  • Reported September 05, 2010
    Assault
    Redlands, California
    Three men claiming to be white supremacists attacked a 16-year-old boy because of this dark complexion.

  • Reported June 20, 2010
    Assault
    Ventura, California
    Matt Engeman, 54, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, resisting an officer and a misdemeanor hate crime charge for allegedly attacking his landlord and using racial slurs against him in front of police.

  • Reported June 12, 2010
    Assault
    Sunnyvale, California
    Teenagers assaulted a Muslim man while calling him a "terrorist."

  • Reported June 02, 2010
    Assault
    Santa Ana, California
    An Iranian man attacked two Latinos in a car at an intersection.

  • Reported May 22, 2010
    Assault
    Richmond, California
    Three Latino men allegedly shouted racial slurs and beat a white man.

  • Reported April 24, 2010
    Assault
    Long Beach, California
    A transgendered student was attacked inside a campus restroom at California State University.

  • Reported January 05, 2010
    Assault
    Santa Cruz, California
    A gay man was beaten at a nightclub after being verbally attacked for his sexual orientation.

  • Reported December 30, 2009
    Assault
    Costa Mesa, California
    "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."

  • Reported October 29, 2009
    Assault
    North Hollywood, California
    Two Jewish men were shot as they were entering a synagogue. Police were investigating the incident as a hate crime.