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 graffiti was carved into a black family's car and one of the car tires was slashed.
July 11, 2008
Vandalism
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Feces were spread on the front door handle of a synagogue.
July 11, 2008
Vandalism
Edison, New Jersey
Anti-Semitic and obscene graffiti was scrawled inside a Jewish school.
July 10, 2008
Vandalism
Palo Alto, California
Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted at a summer camp operated by a Jewish community center.
July 08, 2008
Leafletting
Santa Cruz, California
Fliers from the California chapter of the United Realm of America of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in two neighborhoods.
July 08, 2008
Leafletting
Oldham, Kentucky
Ku Klux Klan fliers were inserted in newspapers and left in driveways.
July 07, 2008
Vandalism
Palmdale, California
Racist graffiti was spray-painted on two vacant houses.
July 07, 2008
Harassment
Astoria, New York
Shara Mozie and Tyreek Childs, both 17; Trevaughn Payne, 16, and a 15-year-old face assault, weapons and harassment charges after they allegedly harassed and struck a priest who runs a shelter for transgender and gay youth.
July 07, 2008
Vandalism
Bay Shore, New York
Anti-Latino graffiti was found on a strip mall wall.
July 06, 2008
Vandalism
Granite Bay, California
Sexual and racist graffiti, some of it targeting a local Laotian immigrant, was spray-painted on county signs and other areas.
July 06, 2008
Harassment
Lewiston, Idaho
Four people in a pickup truck allegedly drove through a Nez Perce tribal camp meeting while shouting racial slurs and obscenities.
July 06, 2008
Assault
Asheville, North Carolina
Two black men allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs while assaulting another man.
July 04, 2008
Assault
Nampa, Idaho
Three men and a woman allegedly attacked a black man while making comments about his race.
July 03, 2008
Vandalism
Fresh Meadows, New York
A swastika was drawn on a car.
July 03, 2008
Legal Developments
Seattle, Washington
Edward Campbell, 42, was charged with one count of malicious harassment after he allegedly called a store clerk, whom he believed was Muslim, a terrorist and struck him on the head with a can of beer.
July 02, 2008
Legal Developments
Boulder, Colorado
David Perkins, 31, was ticketed for third- degree assault, harassment and a bias- motivated crime for allegedly harassing, hitting and shoving a Sikh Indian man.
July 02, 2008
Assault
Canton, Illinois
Roger D. White, 34, was charged with home invasion and commission of a hate crime after allegedly accused a man and yelling racial slurs at him.
July 02, 2008
Vandalism
London, Kentucky
Racial slurs were written on a black family's vehicles.
