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.
Two churches and a Jewish center were set afire with Molotov cocktails.
Reported May 02, 2008
Vandalism
Palm City, Florida
A swastika, a phallic symbol and the letters "A" and "B" were carved into the 15th green of a country club golf course.
Reported May 01, 2008
Intimidation
Mobile, Alabama
A noose was found hanging from the rafters of a building at a shipyard.
Reported May 01, 2008
Vandalism
Boise, Idaho
The word 'forgive' appeared on the center of new mural on the side of the Idaho Human Rights Education Center.
Reported May 01, 2008
Threat
Brooklyn, New York
The first black Surrogate Court judge received a letter containing death threats toward her and her son.
Reported April 30, 2008
Vandalism
Miami, Florida
Swastikas were spray-painted on a synagogue two days before the Jewish observance of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Reported April 30, 2008
Vandalism
Parkland, Florida
Swastikas were spray-painted on a synagogue and the words '4 Hitler' were spray-painted on a nearby stop sign.
Reported April 29, 2008
Vandalism
Santa Cruz, California
Anti-Semitic graffiti depicting the Star of David resting between the World Trade Center towers as an airplane approaches was scrawled on a wall outside a classroom at Oakes College.
Reported April 27, 2008
Vandalism
Madison, Wisconsin
Three swastikas and the words 'die Jew' were drawn on a synagogue.
Reported April 26, 2008
Vandalism
Poway, California
White supremacist and anti-Semitic remarks and symbols were spray-painted on a synagogue.
Reported April 25, 2008
Vandalism
Bradenton, Florida
A Jewish synagogue was vandalized and burglarized for the third time in four days.
Reported April 25, 2008
Legal Developments
Alexandria, Louisiana
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime for his role in using nooses to threaten marchers who participated in the "Jena Six" civil rights rally.
Reported April 25, 2008
Assault
Boston, Massachusetts
A man was allegedly attacked by another man who yelled anti-gay slurs.
Reported April 25, 2008
Vandalism
Hillsboro, New Hampshire
A 13-year-old, two 15-year-olds and two 16-year-olds were charged with criminal mischief for allegedly spray-painting swastikas, hate speech and profanity on an elementary school, a middle school and a playground.
Reported April 25, 2008
Harassment
New York City, New York
Two white men allegedly yelled racial epithets at a black man who was with his white girlfriend and threatened to attack the couple.
Reported April 24, 2008
Legal Developments
Montpelier, Vermont
Connor Dwyer, 18, and Robert Plunkett, 21, face multiple charges, including burglary, after they allegedly etched swastikas into the powder left by a discharged fire extinguisher in August.
Reported April 23, 2008
Intimidation
Hauppauge, New York
Louis C. Erali, 44, was charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree harassment and second- degree and third-degree menacing, all classified as bias crimes, for allegedly taunting and yelling racial slurs at a black driver who passed him on the road.
Reported April 22, 2008
Assault
San Dimas, California
Aaron Mark Duggan, 27, was charged with attempted murder as a hate crime after he allegedly stabbed an Asian man who was walking on a junior high school track with a friend. A 15-year-old boy was also charged with attempted murder, the hate crime allegation, two counts of assault and one count of battery in connection with the incident.