For The Record
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 July and December 2016.
ALABAMA
Birmingham 鈥 August 3, 2016
Former Ku Klux Klan member Thomas Edwin Blanton, one of three men convicted for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, was denied parole.
ARKANSAS
Fort Smith 鈥 December 2, 2016
Racist flyers from American Vanguard Reaction America were distributed at the University of Arkansas.
CALIFORNIA
Agoura Hills 鈥 October 19, 2016
Mark Feigin, 40, was charged with making criminal threats to the Islamic Center of Southern California. An ensuing investigation of Feigin鈥檚 home uncovered several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Antioch 鈥 September 7, 2016
Roy Charles Sorvari, 27, and Christyne Gail McDaniel, 25, face charges of arson and conspiracy to commit murder, mayhem, torture and assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails into the home of a black family in Antioch.
Concord 鈥 September 30, 2016
The nonprofit Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa was the target of a rash of burglaries and vandalism.
Davis 鈥 December 21, 2016
Nathaniel Neal Rogers, 21, faces battery and hate crime charges following an altercation where he 鈥減ushed an Asian male and then told him to go back to his country,鈥 according to police.
Fresno 鈥 November 30, 2016
Daniel Coronel Wilson, Jr., was charged in Fresno County Superior Court with felony assault in connection with the December 2015 beating of 68-year-old Sikh man Amrik Singh Bal.
Glendale 鈥 December 22, 2016
Police investigated a possible hate crime after a family said its home was damaged with a red swastika on the garage door and what appeared to be 鈥淭rump鈥 written underneath. A racist note was also left at the home.
Palmdale 鈥 July 7, 2016
A swastika and 鈥淯SA鈥 were spray-painted on a Muslim man鈥檚 car on the final day of Ramadan.
Richmond 鈥 September 25, 2016
Maan Singh Khalsa, a Sikh, was brutally attacked and his turban was violently knocked off his head. His hair, which Sikhs let grow naturally, was cut. The assault resulted in stitches and other severe injuries. Hate crime charges were filed against two men arrested for the assault.
San Jose 鈥 November 26, 2016
The Evergreen Islamic Center received a letter that called the recipients 鈥渃hildren of Satan鈥 and 鈥渧ile and filthy people.鈥 The letter also threatened that President-elect Donald Trump will 鈥渄o to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.鈥 At least two other mosques in Southern California, the Long Beach Islamic Center and the Islamic Center of Claremont, received the same letter.
Simi Valley 鈥 December 10, 2016
A 29-year-old man was booked on suspicion of making criminal threats and committing a hate crime after allegedly stabbing and injuring a worshipper near a Simi Valley mosque.
CONNECTICUT
East Haddam 鈥 November 10, 2016
Vandals sprayed 鈥淭rump 2016鈥 over a message of unity sign welcoming all people of color and religions to the community.
Stamford 鈥 August 3, 2016
Kendall J. Sulllivan, 50, posted numerous statements on the Internet forum Metalthrone.net
in which he threatened to injure or kill several people and religious groups.
FLORIDA
Fort Pierce 鈥 September 14, 2016
The mosque that Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen attended was set on fire in what Muslim leaders say was the latest incident in an escalating campaign of harassment and violence.
Sarasota 鈥 December 22, 2016
A Jewish congregation reported that someone had drawn anti-Semitic images on its property.
GEORGIA
Rome 鈥 July 21, 2016
Police in northwest Georgia say flyers were left in residents鈥 driveways stating that the Black Lives Matter movement is telling followers to kill white people and police officers. The flyers urged readers to join the Ku Klux Klan.
Woodstock 鈥 October 24, 2016
Residents found Ku Klux Klan literature strewn about their driveways. The flyers attacked the transgender population as 鈥渁n abomination.鈥
IOWA
Iowa City 鈥 November 16, 2016
An American citizen born in Sudan, Amar Samel, found a handwritten note taped to his front door that read, 鈥淵ou can all go home now. We don鈥檛 want n* and terrorists here. #Trump.鈥
Waterloo 鈥 October 28, 2016
A county supervisor candidate found graffiti on his yard signs and front door referencing anti-LGBT Bible verses and threatening death.
KANSAS
Garden City 鈥 October 14, 2016
Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein face federal charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. The men were accused of plotting a bomb attack targeting an apartment complex home to a mosque and many Muslim immigrants from Somalia. The FBI says that as part of this plot, the men conducted surveillance of the complex and other places in southwest Kansas.
Lindsborg 鈥 September 3, 2016
The president of Bethany College reported that the school was the target of nearly a dozen racist messages written in chalk on sidewalks around the campus. One of the messages said, 鈥淢ake Lindsborg white again.鈥
MARYLAND
College Park 鈥 December 11, 2016
Flyers linked to American Vanguard, a white supremacist group, were found on the campus of the University of Maryland.
Severna Park 鈥 December 6, 2016
Severna Park Middle School administrators closed down a bathroom after finding ink writings containing 鈥渁 threat to the school and an Islamic reference.鈥
Wheaton 鈥 August 1, 2016
Two transgender women were punched and kicked inside a convenience store. Two suspects, Edras Vasquez, 20, and Carlos Hernandez-Sanez, 18, were being held on bond.
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston 鈥 December 5, 2016
Posters advocating a white supremacist group, American Vanguard, were found on the Emerson College campus. The flyers were placed in public view as part of the group鈥檚 鈥淣orthern Propaganda Campaign.鈥
Boston 鈥 December 16, 2016
A Suffolk County judge ordered that a Malden man be held on $20,000 bail for after allegedly committing a hate crime by beating a man with a brick.
Cambridge 鈥 December 6, 2016
Graffiti containing swastikas and other hate speech was found in three of Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School bathrooms.
MICHIGAN
Grand Rapids 鈥 November 21, 2016
A voicemail left at Grand Rapids Church threatened that Trump would 鈥渉elp gays get kicked out of the country along with all the fricken Mexicans that are illegal.鈥 It went on to say 鈥淚 hope Trump gets ya. Trump Trump Trump.鈥
NEW JERSEY
Bayonne 鈥 October 14, 2016
Police arrested Jonathon Huffey, 20, for spray-painting anti-Muslim messages and the words 鈥淒onald Trump鈥 on a Muslim community center. Huffey faces charges of criminal mischief, bias intimidation, and criminal trespass.
Lakewood 鈥 August 27, 2016
鈥淗ail Hitler鈥 was scrawled in black paint, along with two swastikas, on a side door to a pre-teen camp.
Maywood 鈥 September 20, 2016
Aakash Dalal, 24, of Lodi was charged in a 30-count indictment with a former schoolmate, Anthony Graziano, for their alleged role in a series of arson and graffiti attacks that terrorized North Jersey鈥檚 Jewish community at the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.
Moonachie 鈥 December 6, 2016
Police investigated a home break-in as a hate crime due to the graffiti, including 鈥淜KK,鈥 a swastika and other racial slurs, that was painted on multiple walls inside the home. The name 鈥淭rump鈥 was also written on a wall.
NEW YORK
Cooperstown 鈥 August 3, 2016
Lawrence Andrew Mileo, 50, a white man from Myrtle Beach, S.C., was arrested for verbally and physically assaulting a 33-year-old African-American woman.
Mineola 鈥 December 14, 2016
According to police, graffiti was spray-painted on Washington Avenue reading, 鈥淢ake America White Again,鈥 presumably a reference to Donald Trump鈥檚 campaign slogan 鈥淢ake America Great Again.鈥
New York 鈥 September 7, 2016
Jonathan Echevarria, 22, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and Nolis Ogando, 22, of Ridgewood, to eight years behind bars for their part in a fatal group beating of a man they perceived to be gay more than five years ago. The victim died two days later as a result of his injuries.
New York 鈥 September 10, 2016
A woman wearing traditional Muslim clothing told police that a man lit her blouse on fire in midtown Manhattan.
New York 鈥 December 3, 2016
Native New Yorker, Muslim and police officer, Aml Elsokary, was assaulted by a white man yelling 鈥淚SIS b----,鈥 among other slurs, and 鈥淚 will cut your throat, go back to your country.鈥 The episode is being investigated as a bias incident.
New York 鈥 December 7, 2016
Nassau County police are investigating a series of bias incidents at Nassau Community College, all of which involved swastika graffiti.
New York 鈥 December 21, 2016
Vandalism inside a Brooklyn wastewater treatment plant included six swastikas, the words 鈥淗eil Hitler鈥 and 鈥淭rump.鈥
White Plains 鈥 November 14, 2016
The spray-painting of a swastika and the words 鈥渨hite power鈥 along the Bronx River Parkway bike path was being investigated as a hate crime.
Wilton Manors 鈥 September 7, 2016
A Florida man who posted a Facebook rant threatening to kill gay people on Labor Day in a manner similar to the massacre at an Orlando nightclub was arrested and charged with a federal crime.
NORTH CAROLINA
Cary 鈥 October 13, 2016
Seven-year-old Pakistani-American Abdul Usmani was beaten by five of his fellow students as they made references to his race and Muslim religion.
Roxboro 鈥 December 3, 2106
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a 鈥淭rump Victory鈥 event.
NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo 鈥 September 6, 2016
Matthew Gust pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for firebombing a Somali restaurant. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
OREGON
Portland 鈥 September 21, 2016
An orange swastika was painted on former Portland Mayor Vera Katz鈥 statue.
PENNSYLVANIA
Coudersport 鈥 September 17, 2016
Residents reported that plastic bags were left on their lawns that contained rocks, lollipops, and a flyer that read, 鈥淎re there troubles in your neighborhood? Contact the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today.鈥
East Stroudsburg 鈥 October 30, 2016
State police reported that a church had been targeted with graffiti criticizing Donald Trump and depicting obscene sexual and anti-Semitic images.
Lewisburg 鈥 December 5, 2016
A swastika was found carved into a bathroom stall on the Bucknell University campus.
Mechanicsburg 鈥 December 20, 2016
Someone carved 鈥淜KK鈥 and 鈥淭rump鈥 into the vehicles of a Hispanic male and a man of Middle Eastern descent.
Wilkes-Barre Township 鈥 October 5, 2016
Plastic bags containing rocks, a lollipop and a Klu Klux Klan recruitment flyers were found on residents鈥 front lawns.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston 鈥 December 15, 2016
Dylann Roof, a self-radicalized white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners in 2015 when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was found guilty of several murder charges and hate crimes by a federal jury.
Clemson 鈥 October 10, 2016
Clemson University police investigated the discovery of Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers that appeared on the school鈥檚 campus.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls 鈥 December 7, 2016
Police were searching for the suspect or suspects who wrote 鈥淢ake America White again 鈥 build the wall鈥 on a bridge near a local high school.
TEXAS
College Station 鈥 December 13, 2016
Texas A&M University students and activists protested against a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was filmed at a conference in November using Nazi-like salutes.
Galveston 鈥 December 2, 2106
A Muslim-owned business was targeted by vandals and covered in bacon, just days after bacon grease was smeared on its front door handles.
McKinney 鈥 November 4, 2016
A Trump campaign sign posted outside of a polling place had razor blades glued to the bottom of it.
VERMONT
Hartford 鈥 October 17, 2016
Vandals spray-painted the side of Dothan Brook Elementary School with the words 鈥淎mer-KKK-ans for Trump.鈥
WASHINGTON
Lynden 鈥 December 21, 2016
Skip Edward Saunders, 33, pleaded guilty to a hate crime for sending racial slurs and death threats to a Lummi woman, Sharlaine LaClair, running for the Washington State House of Representatives.
Pullman 鈥 November 9, 2016
According to police, a student found anti-LGBT slurs and 鈥淕o 2 Hell鈥 written in red paint on his car.
WEST VIRGINIA
Clarksburg 鈥 November 10, 2016
A gay couple received an intimidating and anonymous note that read, 鈥淭rump is our president now! Get out of our neighborhood now FS!鈥 When the couple called 911, police reportedly failed to respond.
