For The Record
A sampling of hate crimes and hate group activities is summarized in state-by-state listings.
ALABAMA
Ozark • July 10, 2014
Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, former Exalted Cyclops of the Ozark chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in a 2009 cross burning.
ARIZONA
Mesa • Aug. 16, 2014
Joseph David Burgoyne, 28, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, participating in a criminal street gang, threatening or intimidation and disorderly conduct after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a man and then attacked him with a bottle. Burgoyne has the slogan “CWB” (Crazy White Boy), a reference to a white supremacist street gang, tattooed on his neck.
CALIFORNIA
Orange • July 13, 2014
Flyers were distributed by the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Taft • Sept. 12, 2014
Jack Alfred Dennis, 34, was charged with committing a religious hate crime and possession of an unregistered assault rifle in connection with vandalism of church signs.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington • July 30, 2014
Reginald Anthony Klaiber, 24, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly stabbing a 15-year-old transgender female.
FLORIDA
Daytona Beach • July 15, 2014
Ronald White, 51, was charged with two counts of child abuse after he allegedly yelled racial slurs and threatened two young black boys.
Miami Beach • July 28, 2014
A swastika and the word “Hamas” were spray-painted at the entrance of a synagogue. Two days earlier a local family found anti-Semitic graffiti on their car.
GEORGIA
Atlanta • July 13, 2014
Ku Klux Klan flyers were left on cars.
Ellabell • Aug. 17, 2014
Flyers from the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement were left in driveways.
Savannah• Sept. 18, 2014
Flyers from the National Socialist Movement were left in a neighborhood.
IDAHO
Kootenai County • July 12, 2014
A historical marker on the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s reservation was defaced with the racist messages “White power” and “Die (expletive) Indians.”
Pocatello • Sept. 30, 2014
Nathan Jessop, a member of the hate group Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), was sentenced to 90 days in jail on child injury charges for the mistreatment of teenage boys placed in his home as discipline by the sect.
ILLINOIS
Chicago • July 14, 2014
David C. Nicosia, 55, was charged with four counts of aggravated battery and a hate crime after he allegedly slapped an elderly black judge in the face, spit on her and called her “Rosa Parks.”
Manhattan • July 6, 2014
Flyers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in a neighborhood.
KENTUCKY
Lexington • July 8, 2014
Flyers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in a neighborhood.
MICHIGAN
Holland • Sept. 15, 2014
Newspapers from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in a neighborhood.
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis • Sept. 25, 2014
Wayne Steven Odegard, 43, was arrested for allegedly harassing customers at a gay bar and yelling gay slurs, and then using a BB gun to shoot a man in the leg.
MONTANA
Havre • Aug. 16, 2014
Flyers from the United Klans of America were left on doorsteps.
NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City • Sept. 27, 2014
The car of the spiritual leader of a local synagogue was set afire. The fire damaged the parking lot and outer walls of the synagogue.
East Hampton • July 10, 2014
Asli Dincer, 44, and her ex-husband, Melih Dincer, 31, were charged with making a terrorist threat, falsely reporting an incident, menacing and conspiracy after allegedly sending E-mail threats to a synagogue.
West Orange • July 18, 2014
Ali Muhammed Brown, 29, was arrested for allegedly killing two gay men, Ahmed Said, 27, and Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, on June 1.
NEW YORK
Brooklyn • Aug. 30, 2014
Two men, Samuel Brendler, 21, and Ahrone Koskase, 22, were charged with assault as a hate crime, harassment and menacing for allegedly attacking a black man who was walking his dog and throwing garbage cans at him while using racial slurs.
Hampton Bays • Aug. 30, 2014
Flyers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left on the driveway of residents in a local neighborhood.
New York • July 26, 2014
Anti-Muslim flyer were distributed in a Bensonhurst apartment complex.
West Babylon • Sept. 7, 2014
Flyers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in two neighborhoods.
NORTH CAROLINA
Pineview • July 13, 2014
Flyers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in a neighborhood.
PENNSYLVANIA
Bloomsburg • Aug. 4, 2014
Walter Corey Reibsome faces charges of ethnic intimidation, harassment and disorderly conduct for allegedly yelling a racial slur at a black Bloomsburg University student.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Abbeville • July 26, 2014
The Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally.
Seneca • July 13, 2014
Flyers from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in a neighborhood.
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga • Sept. 21, 2014
Four individuals assaulted a man and yelled anti-gay slurs at him.
Clarksville • July 22, 2014
A cross was burned in a church parking lot.
Minor Hill • July 9, 2014
Timothy Flanagan, 33, was charged with federal offenses for his part in a 2012 cross-burning in front of an interracial family’s home.
TEXAS
Katy • July 3, 2014
Flyers from the Original Knight Riders Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in a neighborhood.
