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  • Reported July 24, 2012
    Assault
    Cape Girardeau, Missouri
    A Missouri teen pleaded guilty to a hate crime Monday months after she and her friends severely beat her gay neighbor. Mercedes Ayers was charged with third-degree assault motivated by discrimination for physically attacking 41-year-old Jeana Terry outside her Cape Girardeau home, the Southeast Missourian reported. The 17-year-old went to Terry's house on July 24th and grabbed her by the arm when she opened the door. Ayers, her two younger siblings, and several friends kicked and punched Terry while shouting homophobic slurs, leaving her with bruising, nausea and dizziness, according to the local paper. In the months following the attack, Ayers denied targeting Terry because of her sexual orientation. The teen said that she went to Terry’s home in response to an altercation she had with Terry and Terry's partner, Lisa Lange, the day of incident. Ayers, however, entered a guilty plea Monday in an agreement that required prosecutors to drop a more serious first-degree burglary charge which carried a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Via NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teen-pleads-guilty-gay-bashing-article-1.1174339#ixzz28itnc6OC

  • Reported July 24, 2012
    Assault
    Jersey City, New Jersey
    Two women allegedly yelled anti- gay epithets and smashed a bottle on a man's head. Derita Boone, 21, and Jennifer Gilmore, 25, were charged with bias intimidation, aggravated assault and weapons offenses.

  • Reported July 24, 2012
    Vandalism
    Rio Rancho, New Mexico
    Racial slurs were spray-painted on the garage of a black man who moved in the neighborhood two months earlier. Other residences in the neighborhood were also spray-painted with graffiti. Jose Campos, 23, was charged with seven counts of criminal damage to property, one of which included a hate crime enhancement.

  • Reported July 23, 2012
    Legal Developments
    Houston, Texas
    Three men were sentenced under a federal hate crime law for attacking a black man at a bus stop in 2011. Brian Kerstetter, 33, received a 77-month sentence; Charles Cannon a 37-month sentence and Michael McLaughlin a 30-month sentence.

  • Reported July 22, 2012
    Assault
    Washington, District of Columbia
    Three men allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs and attacked two other men on the street.

  • Reported July 21, 2012
    Vandalism
    Indianapolis, Indiana
    A window at a gay bar was shattered during an allegedly bias-motivated drive-by shooting.

  • Reported July 21, 2012
    Arson
    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    A gay man was burned when his car was allegedly firebombed by two people. An anti-gay slur was also spray-painted on the vehicle.

  • Reported July 18, 2012
    Assault
    Orange, California
    A Latina woman allegedly dumped hot coffee on a black nursing assistant at a medical center and called him racial epithets. Rose Mary Ayala, 38, was charged with one felony count of hate crime battery.

  • Reported July 17, 2012
    Vandalism
    West Seattle, Washington
    A man was charged with malicious harassment and malicious mischief after he allegedly smashed a window of a Muslim community center and said he committed the act because he hates Muslims.

  • Reported July 14, 2012
    Assault
    Congers, New York
    A white man armed with a steak knife allegedly burst into an apartment, screamed anti-Latino epithets and struck a child in the face. Thomas Cheviot, 53, was charged with three counts of first- degree burglary, assault on a child less than 11 as a hate crime, assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest and endangering the welfare of a child.

  • Reported July 12, 2012
    Legal Developments
    Chicago, Illinois
    Two white teens, ages 17 and 16, were charged with committing a hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, intimidation, aggravated battery and battery in connection with a December 2011 incident. The teenagers, along with Matthew Herrmann, 18, allegedly put a noose around a black high school student's neck, threatened him with a knife and used racial slurs while holding him captive.

  • Reported July 11, 2012
    Leafletting
    Eden, North Carolina
    A pro-Ku Klux Klan banner questioning the decision not to replace a Confederate statue in a nearby town was hung near a school.

  • Reported July 11, 2012
    Vandalism
    Sleepy Hollow, New York
    NY Sleepy Hollow 2012-07-11 A swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray-painted on a building and tables at a park.

  • Reported July 10, 2012
    Legal Developments
    Elmburst, Illinois
    Myles Burton, 21, a former Elmhurst College student, was sentenced to two years of probation for scratching the letters `KKK` and a racial slur on a window ledge outside a black dorm supervisor's room.

  • Reported July 09, 2012
    Vandalism
    Springfield, Missouri
    A racial slur and a threat were etched into a car owned by a black family whose house was burned a week earlier.

  • Reported July 04, 2012
    Leafletting
    Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Fliers from the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left at residences.

  • Reported July 02, 2012
    Legal Developments
    Hoosic Valley, New York
    Casey Lee and James Harley, both 17; Dylan Justus, 18; and Brent Onge, 19, were charged with criminal mischief, conspiracy as a hate crime, trespassing and graffiti after they allegedly spray- painted swastikas and profanity at a high school in Schaghitcoke in June.

  • Reported July 01, 2012
    Assault
    Plainfield, Illinois
    Nicholas Minniti, 18, was charged with a felony hate crime and aggravated battery for allegedly assaulting a gay teen at a fast-food restaurant.