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 260,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2013 government study estimated occur annually.
Racist and anti-gay graffiti and white supremacist slogans were spray- painted in a high school.
Reported January 14, 2012
Vandalism
Temecula, California
A bench with a pentagram scrawled on it was tossed into a fountain outside a Catholic church and then a charred Bible was left outside the church's main doors.
Reported November 12, 2008
Vandalism
Temecula, California
A swastika and an anti-Obama slogan were spray-painted on a sidewalk.
