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.
Steven Leas, 24, and Cody Lindell, 18, were charged with felony malicious harassment for allegedly using racial slurs and shoving a black man.
July 16, 2006
Cross Burnings
Spirit Lake, Idaho
A cross was burned in a black man's yard.
February 25, 2005
Leafletting
Post Falls, Idaho
Literature from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations was distributed throughout a neighborhood.
July 18, 2004
Rally
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
About 40 members of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations rallied.
April 29, 2004
Legal Developments
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Former Aryan Nations staff member Shaun Winkler, 24, was sentenced to three consecutive jail terms of six months each for macing former Aryan Nations member Michael Teague in 2002.
December 04, 2003
Vandalism
Boise, Idaho
Racist slurs and symbols were spray-painted on two religious buildings.
November 01, 2003
Assault
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
Zachary L. Beck, a 24-year-old Aryan Nations member, was charged with felony malicious harassment as a hate crime for allegedly attacking a Hispanic man.
October 31, 2003
Leafletting
Hayden, Idaho
Racist bumper stickers from the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations were placed on several campaign signs.
