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.
Joseph Paul Leonard, Jr., a 62-year-old white man, was convicted of first-degree murder with a hate-crime enhancement for the June 2013 death of Toussaint Harrison, a black man. Leonard ran over Harrison with his truck after a verbal altercation in a parking lot where Leonard used racial slurs. He was also convicted of attempted murder for assaulting Harrison's business partner.
Reported November 20, 2014
Hatitude
St. Louis, Missouri
Two leaders of the black separatist New Black Panther Party, Brandon Orlando Baldwin, aka Brandon Muhammad, and Olajuwon Davis, aka Olajuwon Ali, were charged with making "straw purchases," buying weapons and then passing them on to someone else.
Reported November 18, 2014
Assault
Phoenix, Arizona
Brice Johnson, 19, was sentenced to 183 months in federal prison for kidnapping and assaulting a young gay man because of his sexual orientation in September 2013.
Reported November 18, 2014
Assault
New York, New York
An Orthodox Jew was beaten by a man who yelled anti-Semitic slurs.
Reported November 18, 2014
Vandalism
Streetsboro, Ohio
Three teenage boys were arrested for allegedly painting "KKK" and swastikas on vehicles, fences and homes.
Reported November 18, 2014
Intimidation
Tipp City, Ohio
William J. Dixon, a 36-year-old white man, pleaded guilty to felony ethnic intimidation and discharging a firearm in a prohibited area and two misdemeanors of criminal damaging and using a weapon while intoxicated in connection with a June 2014 incident where he allegedly screamed racial slurs at his black neighbors before shooting their vehicle.
Reported November 18, 2014
Assault
Seattle, Washington
A group of men allegedly yelled anti-gay slurs and beat a man.
Reported November 16, 2014
Vandalism
New York, New York
Anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas were painted on a methadone clinic building and van.
Reported November 15, 2014
Assault
Oakland, California
Richard Thomas, 17, was sentenced to seven years in a state juvenile facility for setting another teen on fire last November because of the teen鈥檚 sexual orientation.
Reported November 14, 2014
Leafletting
St. Louis County, Missouri
The Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed fliers around the St. Louis area threatening violent action against Ferguson 鈥渢errorists鈥 if they become violent.
Reported November 11, 2014
Threat
Kissimmee, Florida
Marcus Faella, 41, the alleged leader of the white supremacist skinhead group American Front, was sentenced to six months in jail and two years of community service for his conviction on two counts of providing and teaching paramilitary training to members at the group's compound.
Reported November 08, 2014
Vandalism
Boston, Massachusetts
Fliers promoting an event featuring an Israeli military official speaking at Northeastern University School of Law were defaced with swastikas.
Reported November 08, 2014
Assault
Bloomfield, Pennsylvania
Gerard Rupert, 33; Kaela Rupert, 31; and Robert Noftz, 36, were charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation and conspiracy for allegedly shouting ethnic slurs and beating a black man.
Reported November 04, 2014
Assault
Toledo, Ohio
Christopher Temple, 20, was charged with assault for allegedly attacking a transgender woman. Temple was one of three men who yelled derogatory comments at the woman, knocked her to the ground, beat and robbed her.
Reported October 28, 2014
Assault
New York, New York
Matthew Smith, 20, was charged with three counts of second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime and assault for a September 2014 attack on a group of transgendered women.
Reported October 25, 2014
Leafletting
Prattville, Alabama
Fliers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in neighborhoods.
Reported October 25, 2014
Assault
New York, New York
Prabhjot Singh, a Sikh professor at Columbia University, was assaulted by a group of people who allegedly called him 鈥淥sama鈥 and a 鈥渢errorist鈥 while punching him in the face.
Reported October 24, 2014
Leafletting
Bentonville, Arkansas
Fliers from the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were left in a neighborhood.