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.
At least 30 homes were vandalized, some with anti-Semitic slurs and swastikas.
February 14, 2015
Threat
Springfield, Missouri
Aaron Williams, 23, and Austin Pierce, 35, were charged with attempted burglary and property damage motivated by discrimination under the state's hate crimes law for allegedly threatening to kill a black woman and her four children at the family’s home.
February 12, 2015
Vandalism
Waterloo, Iowa
Dayln Cornelius Harrington, 21, and Andy Lee Little, 36, were arrested for first-degree criminal mischief for vandalizing the car of a Bosnian man because of the man’s ethnicity.
February 08, 2015
Leafletting
North Fort Myers, Florida
Fliers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in driveways.
February 07, 2015
Cross Burnings
Montgomery, Alabama
Pamela Morris, 47, former secretary of the Ozark chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing perjury during a federal grand jury’s investigation into a racially motivated cross-burning committed by her son in 2009, Steven Joshua Dinkle, local leader of the same KKK chapter.
February 05, 2015
Harassment
New York, New York
Salvatore Catalano, 18, was charged with aggravated second-degree harassment with a hate crime attachment for allegedly throwing eggs from his SUV and shouting religious slurs at three victims wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing.
February 04, 2015
Assault
Spokane, Washington
Adam R. Flippen, 45, and Marc A. Fessler, 42, were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a transgender woman on Jan. 30.
February 02, 2015
Vandalism
Rock Hill, South Carolina
Racial slurs were painted on a large rock in front of a high school.
January 31, 2015
Intimidation
Harrison Township, Ohio
Aaron Johnson, a 28-year-old black man, was indicted on four counts of ethnic intimidation for allegedly making repeated threats about killing police, especially “white cops,” in 911 calls.
January 29, 2015
Assault
Maryville, Missouri
Tommy Gaa, a 65-year-old white man, was charged with felony assault motivated by discrimination after he allegedly assaulted a black restaurant cashier and made threatening racist remarks.
January 29, 2015
Harassment
Rapid City, South Dakota
Students from a kindergarten through eighth grade school on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were sprayed with beer and taunted with racial slurs and told to "go back to the reservation" by drunken spectators sitting in a skybox.
January 27, 2015
Assault
Raleigh, North Carolina
John Charles Kuwalik, a 52-year-old white man, was charged with ethnic intimidation and assault after a traffic dispute turned into an attack on a black woman because of her race.
January 27, 2015
Threat
Seattle, Washington
A man was arrested after threatening to stab three men walking together, yelling slurs about their sexual orientation, and then chasing them with a knife.
January 25, 2015
Assault
DeKalb, Illinois
Joan S. Galindo, 34, was charged with home invasion, a hate crime, criminal trespass to property and battery after allegedly barging into a private party, screaming obscenities, and then hitting a man in the face while yelling a racial slur.
January 24, 2015
Vandalism
Davis, California
Anti-Semitic graffiti was spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity house at UC Davis and the Hillel House, a Jewish group.
January 24, 2015
Vandalism
Morgan Hill, California
Racist graffiti was spray-painted on an elementary school and a nearby house.
January 22, 2015
Harassment
Smyrna, Delaware
Daniel R. Lawrence, 30, was charged with a hate crime, terroristic threatening and harassment for allegedly leaving a threatening phone message with racial slurs on a resident’s voice mail.
January 20, 2015
Leafletting
Santa Ana, California
Fliers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in a neighborhood.