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  • Reported January 01, 2015
    Vandalism
    Elkmont, Alabama
    Three windows of a residence were broken and racist graffiti reading "Move Nigger Now" was spray-painted on the garage door.
  • Reported December 23, 2014
    Assault
    Clarkstown, New York
    Chris Bujaj and Ardijan Mehaj, both 17; and Florend Gjevukaj, 18, were charged with assault as a hate crime for three unprovoked assaults on five Jewish customers at the Palisades Mall on Black Friday. There were three separate assaults and anti-Jewish slurs were used.
  • Reported December 20, 2014
    Assault
    Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Zachary Ballenger, a 21-year-old white man, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted first-degree murder, multiple counts of bias-motivated crime resulting in injury, assault and resisting arrest for allegedly shooting at two black men in September in a parking lot after yelling racial slurs at them.
  • Reported December 19, 2014
    Vandalism
    Atwater, California
    At least four swastikas and two white thunderbolts, a symbol often used by white supremacists, were spray-painted on properties largely owned by minorities.
  • Reported December 19, 2014
    Murder
    Los Angeles, California
    Former white supremacist Richard Phillip Ritchie, 39, was convicted of first-degree murder in the racially motivated killing of Howard Garfield McClendon, a 32-year-old black man, in 1997.
  • Reported December 13, 2014
    Murder
    Jackson, Mississippi
    Two 21-year-old white women, Shelbie Brooke Richards and Sarah Adelia Graves, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a series of attacks on blacks that culminated when a black man, James Craig Anderson, was run over and killed in Jackson in 2011.
  • Reported December 11, 2014
    Assault
    Plano, Illinois
    Dakota Malert, 21, was charged with felony aggravated battery after he allegedly beat a man on Dec. 5 because of his sexual orientation.
  • Reported December 10, 2014
    Assault
    Marysville, California
    Anthony Merrell Tyler, 34; Billy Hammett, 30; and Perry Jackson, 29, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3 years and 10 months to more than 7 years for their roles in yelling racial slurs and assaulting an interracial couple in 2011. Tyler, Hammett and Jackson all have tattoos that read “white pride” or “white power.”
  • Reported December 10, 2014
    Assault
    Spindale, North Carolina
    Five members of Word of Faith Fellowship were charged with kidnapping and assault for allegedly attacking and beating a fellow church member who is gay.
  • Reported December 09, 2014
    Harassment
    Seattle, Washington
    A 26-year-old Navy sailor was charged with malicious harassment for allegedly beating a taxi driver, threatening to shoot him and calling him a terrorist.
  • Reported December 07, 2014
    Vandalism
    Anchorage, Alaska
    Anti-gay signs were left on a gay couple’s car and their residence was vandalized.
  • Reported December 06, 2014
    Murder
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Ahmed H. Aden, 34, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in a hit-and-run crash that fatally injured 15-year-old Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein at a Somali Center.
  • Reported December 02, 2014
    Assault
    Stockton, California
    Dehmi Moore, a 23-year-old black woman, was charged with a misdemeanor hate crime as well as two felonies following a fight with a white woman at San Joaquin Delta College.
  • Reported December 02, 2014
    Harassment
    Seattle, Washington
    Ibrahim Koroma, 28, was charged with malicious harassment for allegedly shouting anti-lesbian slurs and physically threatening a female security guard at a gay bar in October.
  • Reported December 01, 2014
    Threat
    Hurricane, Utah
    Robert Keller, 71, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge for threatening to kill two white neighbors if they didn’t force a black relative to leave their apartment complex.
  • Reported November 24, 2014
    Arson
    San Francisco, California
    Hugo John Scherzberg, 46, was charged with suspicion of arson with a hate crime enhancement for allegedly pouring gasoline on the front door of a church and setting it on fire.
  • Reported November 23, 2014
    Assault
    Brooklyn, New York
    Amrit Marajh, 28, was charged with assault as a hate crime after allegedly punching a 24-year-old Jewish man.
  • Reported November 22, 2014
    Threat
    Orlando, Florida
    Longtime white supremacist William White, 37, was sentenced to 17 years for threatening local law enforcement officers after a raid in 2012 of the white supremacist American Front compound.