For The Record

Incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources.

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 almost 260,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics report estimated occur annually. This listing carries a selection of incidents between August and December of 2015. Any additional listings can be found here.

ALABAMA

Cullman County ยท Dec. 5, 2015
Klan flyers were distributed across the county in an attempt to recruit members to work against the spread of Islam.

ARKANSAS

Jonesboro ยท Dec. 12, 2015
Flyers depicting swastikas and other Nazi imagery were placed in mailboxes. They also denounced the mayor and a member of the Jonesboro police force.

CALIFORNIA

Buena Park ยท Dec. 14, 2015
A Sikh temple was vandalized.

San Bernardino ยท Dec. 2, 2015
Two Islamic extremists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and injured 21 after opening fire at the Inland Regional Center during a Christmas party for the health department.

Tracy ยท Dec. 29, 2015
A Molotov cocktail involving a wine bottle containing a rag and accelerant was thrown at a mosque.

COLORADO

Colorado Springs ยท Nov. 27, 2015
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, opened fire in a Planned Parenthood building, killing three people.

INDIANA

Bloomington ยท Oct. 19, 2015
Ticeten Bickford, 19, was arrested for assaulting a Muslim woman. Bickford attacked the 47-year-old woman and attempted to pull off her headscarf, restricting her breathing.

Henry County ยท Oct. 1, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers in gravel-filled plastic bags were distributed in several driveways.

FLORIDA

Jacksonville ยท Nov. 23, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers with anti- LGBT and anti-immigrant messages were distributed.

Palm Beach ยท Dec. 4, 2015
Joshua Warren Killets, 27, was found by authorities to have intentionally selected the Islamic Center of Palm Beach for an attack.

GEORGIA

Villa Rica ยท Nov. 24, 2015
Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers were distributed in driveways.

IDAHO

Twin Falls ยท Dec. 5, 2015
The words โ€œHunt Campโ€ were spray-painted on plywood covering the windows of the Twin Falls Islamic Center. The term is thought to refer to Japanese internment camps created during WWII.

ILLINOIS

Willowbrook ยท Dec. 16, 2015
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty to punching 53-year-old Inderjit Mukker, whom the teenager believed was Muslim.

KENTUCKY

Lexington ยท Dec. 1, 2015
The Islamic Center of Lexington received a phone threat.

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis ยท Nov. 24, 2015
Four men espousing white supremacist ideology were arrested for shooting five members of a Black Lives Matter protest.

MISSOURI

Blue Springs ยท Nov. 12, 2015
Connor B. Stottlemyre, 19, a Northwest Missouri State University freshman, was charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat. He threatened on social media to shoot black students.

St. Louis ยท Nov. 12, 2015
Tyler Bradenberg, 19, was charged with a felony count of making terrorist threats aimed specifically toward African Americans at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

NEBRASKA

Omaha ยท Oct. 29, 2015
A security camera recorded an image of a masked man unsuccessfully trying to break the glass of a door at the Omaha Islamic Center.

NEW JERSEY

Lyndhurst ยท Oct. 22, 2015
Flyers advising recipients to join the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in neighborhoods.

NEW YORK

Albany ยท Dec. 17, 2015
Eric Feight, 57, pleaded guilty for his role in a 2014 plot to use an โ€˜X-ray machineโ€™ to kill Muslims. He was sentenced to eight years.

Brooklyn ยท Nov. 20, 2015
A postal worker spit on two Muslim women walking with a child.

New York ยท Dec. 6, 2015
A teen knocked over and smashed a menorah in a park near Gracie Mansion on the first night of Hanukkah. Shortly after the menorah was put back up, the teen returned to the park and destroyed it again.

Patchogue ยท Dec. 26, 2015
Racist leaflets were placed on cars parked at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital.

NORTH CAROLINA

Granite Quarry ยท Dec. 23, 2015
The East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire placed flyers in multiple locations.

Marshall County ยท Dec. 18, 2015
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed flyers tucked into small plastic bags.

OHIO

Eaton ยท Dec. 1, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers were distributed at homes.

OREGON

Portland ยท Nov. 20 2015
A student from Rwanda at Lewis & Clark College was assaulted on campus by three white men yelling racial slurs. He was hit, held down and forced to swallow an unknown liquid.

PENNSYLVANIA

Allentown ยท Oct. 22, 2015
Samuel Negron Jr., 46, was charged with using racial slurs, assaulting a man with a stick and pulling a gun on him.

Lancaster ยท Nov. 30, 2015
A black Franklin & Marshall College student received racist phone messages and his apartment was ransacked. The incidents are being investigated as potential hate crimes.

Pittsburgh ยท Nov. 30, 2015
A man shot a 38-year-old taxi driver from Morocco in the upper back because he assumed the man was involved with the terrorist group Islamic State.

RHODE ISLAND

Providence ยท Oct. 15, 2015
Anti-Semitic and racist flyers, along with 15 small packets of an unknown substance, were left in a neighborhood.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Walterboro ยท Oct. 24, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers were left in driveways and mailboxes.

TEXAS

Plano ยท Dec. 7, 2015
A Muslim family had large rocks thrown into their windows twice, shortly after moving into a new neighborhood.

UTAH

Salt Lake City ยท Dec. 14, 2015
Two businesses owned by Middle Easterners were spray-painted with slurs.

VERMONT

Burlington ยท Oct. 31, 2015
Ku Klux Klan posters were placed on doors.

Burlington ยท Oct. 31, 2015
Two men, Cameron Cappella, 18, and Derrik Demone, 18, were charged with vandalizing a mosque.

WASHINGTON

Bellingham ยท Nov. 30, 2015
A 19-year-old student at Western Washington University was arrested and jailed on suspicion of felony malicious harassment involving racist threats