For The Record

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 almost 260,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics report estimated occur annually. This listing carries a selection of incidents between August and December of 2015. Any additional listings can be found here.

ALABAMA

Cullman County · Dec. 5, 2015
Klan flyers were distributed across the county in an attempt to recruit members to work against the spread of Islam.

ARKANSAS

Jonesboro · Dec. 12, 2015
Flyers depicting swastikas and other Nazi imagery were placed in mailboxes. They also denounced the mayor and a member of the Jonesboro police force.

CALIFORNIA

Buena Park · Dec. 14, 2015
A Sikh temple was vandalized.

San Bernardino · Dec. 2, 2015
Two Islamic extremists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and injured 21 after opening fire at the Inland Regional Center during a Christmas party for the health department.

Tracy · Dec. 29, 2015
A Molotov cocktail involving a wine bottle containing a rag and accelerant was thrown at a mosque.

COLORADO

Colorado Springs · Nov. 27, 2015
Robert Lewis Dear, 57, opened fire in a Planned Parenthood building, killing three people.

INDIANA

Bloomington · Oct. 19, 2015
Ticeten Bickford, 19, was arrested for assaulting a Muslim woman. Bickford attacked the 47-year-old woman and attempted to pull off her headscarf, restricting her breathing.

Henry County · Oct. 1, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers in gravel-filled plastic bags were distributed in several driveways.

FLORIDA

Jacksonville · Nov. 23, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers with anti- LGBT and anti-immigrant messages were distributed.

Palm Beach · Dec. 4, 2015
Joshua Warren Killets, 27, was found by authorities to have intentionally selected the Islamic Center of Palm Beach for an attack.

GEORGIA

Villa Rica · Nov. 24, 2015
Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyers were distributed in driveways.

IDAHO

Twin Falls · Dec. 5, 2015
The words “Hunt Camp” were spray-painted on plywood covering the windows of the Twin Falls Islamic Center. The term is thought to refer to Japanese internment camps created during WWII.

ILLINOIS

Willowbrook · Dec. 16, 2015
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty to punching 53-year-old Inderjit Mukker, whom the teenager believed was Muslim.

KENTUCKY

Lexington · Dec. 1, 2015
The Islamic Center of Lexington received a phone threat.

MINNESOTA

Minneapolis · Nov. 24, 2015
Four men espousing white supremacist ideology were arrested for shooting five members of a Black Lives Matter protest.

MISSOURI

Blue Springs · Nov. 12, 2015
Connor B. Stottlemyre, 19, a Northwest Missouri State University freshman, was charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat. He threatened on social media to shoot black students.

St. Louis · Nov. 12, 2015
Tyler Bradenberg, 19, was charged with a felony count of making terrorist threats aimed specifically toward African Americans at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

NEBRASKA

Omaha · Oct. 29, 2015
A security camera recorded an image of a masked man unsuccessfully trying to break the glass of a door at the Omaha Islamic Center.

NEW JERSEY

Lyndhurst · Oct. 22, 2015
Flyers advising recipients to join the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in neighborhoods.

NEW YORK

Albany · Dec. 17, 2015
Eric Feight, 57, pleaded guilty for his role in a 2014 plot to use an ‘X-ray machine’ to kill Muslims. He was sentenced to eight years.

Brooklyn · Nov. 20, 2015
A postal worker spit on two Muslim women walking with a child.

New York · Dec. 6, 2015
A teen knocked over and smashed a menorah in a park near Gracie Mansion on the first night of Hanukkah. Shortly after the menorah was put back up, the teen returned to the park and destroyed it again.

Patchogue · Dec. 26, 2015
Racist leaflets were placed on cars parked at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital.

NORTH CAROLINA

Granite Quarry · Dec. 23, 2015
The East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire placed flyers in multiple locations.

Marshall County · Dec. 18, 2015
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed flyers tucked into small plastic bags.

OHIO

Eaton · Dec. 1, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers were distributed at homes.

OREGON

Portland · Nov. 20 2015
A student from Rwanda at Lewis & Clark College was assaulted on campus by three white men yelling racial slurs. He was hit, held down and forced to swallow an unknown liquid.

PENNSYLVANIA

Allentown · Oct. 22, 2015
Samuel Negron Jr., 46, was charged with using racial slurs, assaulting a man with a stick and pulling a gun on him.

Lancaster · Nov. 30, 2015
A black Franklin & Marshall College student received racist phone messages and his apartment was ransacked. The incidents are being investigated as potential hate crimes.

Pittsburgh · Nov. 30, 2015
A man shot a 38-year-old taxi driver from Morocco in the upper back because he assumed the man was involved with the terrorist group Islamic State.

RHODE ISLAND

Providence · Oct. 15, 2015
Anti-Semitic and racist flyers, along with 15 small packets of an unknown substance, were left in a neighborhood.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Walterboro · Oct. 24, 2015
Ku Klux Klan flyers were left in driveways and mailboxes.

TEXAS

Plano · Dec. 7, 2015
A Muslim family had large rocks thrown into their windows twice, shortly after moving into a new neighborhood.

UTAH

Salt Lake City · Dec. 14, 2015
Two businesses owned by Middle Easterners were spray-painted with slurs.

VERMONT

Burlington · Oct. 31, 2015
Ku Klux Klan posters were placed on doors.

Burlington · Oct. 31, 2015
Two men, Cameron Cappella, 18, and Derrik Demone, 18, were charged with vandalizing a mosque.

WASHINGTON

Bellingham · Nov. 30, 2015
A 19-year-old student at Western Washington University was arrested and jailed on suspicion of felony malicious harassment involving racist threats