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List of hate crimes in the US

Definition: a prejudice-motivated crime which occurs when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership (or perceived membership) in a certain social group, usually by sex, ethnicity, disability, language, nationality, physical appearance, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Notes

  • Try to convey a sense of moral outrage.
  • This is a living document, it will be updated as new hate crimes pour in.
  • These are acts not committed by figures of authority directly, those should be included the List of US atrocities.
  • Feel free to make pull requests (changes), or fork it if you'd like to make your own versions.
  • Name the specific source and recipient for the crime, and provide a source for the claim.
  • Try to do chronologically from recent to past; it should seem like a running log.

Racially motivated

  • On Aug 4th, 2019, a man killed 9 and injured another 26 in a mass shooting outside a Dayton Ohio nightclub. 6 of those killed were black.
  • On Aug 3rd, 2019, white supremacist Patrick Crusius killed 20 latinos in an El Paso Texas Wal-Mart, and was taken alive. He left a four-page anti-immigrant manifesto containing standard "ethnic displacement" and "race mixing" white nationalist talking points, refers to immigrants as "invaders", and professes admiration for the New Zealand Christchurch mass shooting. His twitter includes a “BuildTheWall” hashtag, a photo using guns to spell out “Trump,” and posts from Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right Youtuber who works with Alex Jones at InfoWars.
  • On Oct 27, 2018, a white supremacist shot and killed 11 people and wounded 7 more in a Synagogue in Pittsburgh PA, while morning shabbat services were being held.. The shooter posted on the right-wing social network Gab, shortly before the attack that "HIAS (Hebrew immigrant aid society) likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in." He shouted "All Jews must die" as he carried out the attack. The shooting was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States in history. The intervening years between 2016 and 2018 saw rising indicators of antisemitism in American public life, including a 57% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2017 in context of rising hate crimes against other groups including Muslims and African Americans as reported by the FBI, a wave of vandalizations of hundreds of Jewish gravestones in Pennsylvania and Missouri, and a multiplication by 2 of antisemitic incidents on university campuses. 2
  • On Oct 24, 2018, A white supremacist killed two black people, Maurice Stallard, and Vickie Jones, while they were shopping at a Kroger in Jeffersontown Kentucky. The shooter had earlier tried to enter the First Baptist Church of Jeffersontown, a predominantly black church, during a service but was unable to because the doors were locked. Between 10 to 15 minutes later, Bush entered the Kroger, shot Stallard inside, then Jones in the parking lot. He then exchanged gunfire with a bystander, who saw him shoot Jones. Another man said Bush told him, "Don't shoot me. I won't shoot you. Whites don't shoot whites" and then tried to flee.
  • In late October 2018, Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc Jr. (later nicknamed the magabomber), mailed sixteen packages containing pipe bombs to several critics of Donald Trump, including various Democratic Party politicians. Sayoc constructed the pipe bombs in his van, covered with pro-trump and pro-pence stickers. It was later found that Sayoc's Florida home was foreclosed on by Trump's treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin's, Bank, during a period of foreclosures caused by the 2008 financial crisis.
  • In March 2018, a young conservative named Mark Conditt sent a series of letter bombs in Austin Texas, killing 2 people, and wounding 6 bystanders. The bombs appeared to target the east side of Austin, which predominantly consists of poorer, African-American and Latino residents. Austin police chief Brian Manley initially refused to classify Conditt as a terrorist, stating, "he does not at all mention anything about terrorism, nor does he mention anything about hate." After Conditt was discovered, he detonated a bomb in his vehicle, killing himself. 1
  • On February 14th, 2018, white supremacist Nikolas Cruz shot up his highschool in Parkland Florida, killing 17 and wounding 15 more. Cruz repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on social media, and displayed an obsession with violence and guns. He was openly hostile to the antifa movement, and muslims. According to Republic of Florida (a white nationalist militia) leader Jordan Jereb, Cruz trained with and receieved a rifle from another member in the group, and was caught on video training wearing his Trump MAGA hat. Cruz also posted a photo of himself on Instagram wearing one of Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” hats, with an American flag-patterned bandana covering the bottom half of his face. Former classmates have confirmed that he also wore the red Trump hat to school. 1
  • On Jan 10th, 2018, 19-year-old Brandon Griesemer made 22 death threat phone calls to CNN's Atlanta headquarters: “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down,” he told a CNN operator. According to the Washington Post, a high school classmate of Griesemer described him as a Trump supporter who “came in after the election and was very happy.” The classmate, reported the Post, “compared Griesemer’s reaction to that of a fan whose team had won a big game.”
  • On October 20th, 2017, after a Richard Spencer rally in Gainesville FL, 3 white supremacists from Texas drove around in a pickup truck, shouting pro-hitler slogans, and then opened fire on a crowd of protesters. They drove off, and were arrested. One of them, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town. "Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things."1
  • On August 14th, 2017, at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., drove his car into a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors, wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." 1
  • On August 12, 2017, DeAndre Harris was assaulted by six white men in an attack in a parking garage next to the police headquarters during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Images and video of the assault captured by photojournalist Zach Roberts went viral and became a symbol of the enmity underlying the protest.
  • On August 5, 2017, three members of a far-right militia bombed the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. McWhorter is alleged to have told an FBI agent that the attack was an attempt “to scare” Muslims “out of the country.” Luckily no one was killed. Back in 2017, one of the bombers, Hari, who owns a security company, submitted a $10 billion proposal to build Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. “We would look at the wall as not just a physical barrier to immigration but also as a symbol of the American determination to defend our culture, our language, our heritage, from any outsiders,” Hari said.
  • On July 14th, 2017, alt-right activist, anti-feminist, and former intern of Milo Yiannapoulous, Lane Davis, murdered his father for calling him a nazi.
  • On July 18, 2017, A NASA researcher of South Asian descent has her car windshield shattered by a rock thrown through it by an assailant screaming “go back to your country!” She’s injured in the attack.
  • On July 3, 2017, a transgender woman is shot and killed in Lynchburg, VA.
  • On June 18, 2017, two men in Sterling Virginia, armed with baseball bats attack a group of Muslim teenagers, kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, who they beat to death, dumping her body in a pond.
  • On June 3, 2017, 38-year-old white supremacist Phillip Wade racially abuses a 57-year-old black man on an Oakley, CA. bus, then pulls a knife and stabs the man to death while the man is walking away from the confrontation. The victim is the third racialized person Wade has stabbed in the past six years and the second person he’s murdered.
  • On June 1, 2017, a black professor from Princeton is forced to cancel a speaking tour about the Black lives Matter movement, after receiving over 50 death threats after a segment on Fox news.
  • On May 30th, 2017, Anthony Robert Hammond attacked a black person with a machete causing serious injuries, while shouting racial slurs, in Clearlake CA. 1
  • On May 29th, 2017, Jimmy Kramer, a 20 year old Native American, was run over during his birthday party in Washington state by a man and woman in a large pickup truck who first circled the party yelling racial slurs and taunts at the group from inside the truck. Kramer died and his friend was hospitalized. 1
  • On May 28th, 2017, White supremacist Jeremy Joseph Christian stabbed and killed two men who defended a 16-year-old and her Muslim friend on a train in Portland OR. As he was brought into court, Christian yelled, "Get out if you don't like free speech," and, "You call it terrorism, I call it patriotism. You hear me? Die." 16 year old Destinee Mangum told reporters, "He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn't be here, to get out of his country," Mangum told KPTV. "He was just telling us that we basically weren't anything and that we should just kill ourselves." Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23, of Portland, and Ricky John Best, 53, of Happy Valley, died defending them the two high-schoolers.1
  • On May 24, 2017, A barrage of doxxing, rape threats, and death threats received by trans comic book artist Sophie Labelle forces her to cancel an appearance and event at a Halifax book store, which also received bomb threats and threats of attacking the event. Labelle is forced into hiding.
  • On May 21st, 2017, Sean Christopher Urbanski, a University of Maryland student and member of online alt-right facebook groups, randomly stabbed to death Richard Collins III in College Park, MD, while he was waiting for an uber. 1
  • On May 17, 2017, a transgender woman is shot and killed in Fresno, CA.
  • On May 16, 2017, an arsonist attempted to burn down the home of a black family in Albany, NY.. Madison, his wife and his five children rushed out of the house, and investigators found a swastika and a racist slur spray-painted on the home when they arrived.
  • In May, 2017, 18 year old Devon Arthurs, a member of Atom-Waffen, a white supremacist hate group, murdered two of his roommates, also members, to prevent them from carrying out violent attacks. Pipe bombs, explosive materials, timers, and firearms were found in the apartment. A detective asked if Atomwaffen had drawn up a list of specific targets. “Power lines, nuclear reactors, synagogues, things like that,” Arthurs replied. In january of 2017, over 40 Jewish centers received bomb threats.
  • On May 5, 2017, a gay man in south beach, was beaten unconscious by two men who yelled, “All faggots need to die and we’re going to make sure they do”.
  • On April 30th, 2017, A white man shot 7 black and latino people at a pool party in San Diego, CA, killing Monique Clark, a mother of three, allowing the white partygoers to leave. San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said just one day after the shooting that there was "zero information" that race contributed to the attack. (Navy Lt. j.g. Lauren Chapman, one of the attendees of the party, said she felt "heartbreak" at the police's dismissal of this motive, which witnesses say was a major factor.) The shooting received such little immediate coverage that people took to social media to blast major networks and politicians for their lack of reporting, and terror context.
  • On April 21, 2017, a transgender woman is shot and killed in Miami Florida.
  • On April 6, 2017, A Charlotte NC store is set on fire by an arsonist who leaves a warning message for the shop owner that he “did not want any refugee business owners and that they would torture the owner if they did not leave and go back to where they came from,” according to police. It was signed “White America.”
  • On March 24, 2017, a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, stabbed a Somali immigrant after yelling "I hate muslims!".
  • On March 22, 2017, A transgender woman is shot and killed in Baltimore, Maryland.
  • On March 20, 2017, Timothy Caughman, a black 66-year-old man, was collecting cans for recycling in Manhattan, New York City when James Harris Jackson, a white 28-year-old, allegedly approached him and stabbed him multiple times with a sword, killing him. Jackson subsequently turned himself in to police custody and confirmed that he traveled from Maryland to New York with the intention of killing black men in order to prevent white women from having interracial relationships with them.1
  • On March 12, 2017, arsonists set fire to an Islamic center in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
  • On March 3, 2017, A Sikh man is shot and injured in front of his Seattle house by a white man waring a mask, who yells at him to “go back to your country!”
  • On March 1, 2017, a transgender woman is stabbed to death in New Orleans, LA.
  • On Feb 28, 2017 arsonists set fire to a mosque in Toronto, Canada.
  • February 26, 2017, a transgender woman is shot and killed in New Orleans, LA.
  • On Feb 22, 2017, white US navy veteran Adam Purington, shot and killed 1 Indian man and wounded another, whom he had mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas. He yelled, "get out of my country" and "terrorist" before firing. A third man, Ian Grillot, was wounded after he came to the two men's aid. 1
  • On Feb 21, 2017, a 24-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Chicago, IL.
  • On Jan 29th, 2017, White supremacist Alexandre Bissonette shot and killed 6 people and wounded 19 others at a Mosque in Quebec city, Canada. He was charged with 6 counts of first-degree murder, and not domestic terrorism. People who knew him said he had expressed support for Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump,[31][30][34] and had far-right, white nationalist, and anti-Muslim views. The manager of a refugee-support Facebook page said Bissonnette frequently denigrated refugees and feminists online.1
  • On Jan 20th, 2017, Elizabeth Hokoana, shot a protester and IWW member at a Milo Yiannopolous speech at the University of Washington, in Seattle WA. This occurred after the protester confronted her husband about pepper spraying the crowds. Marc Hokoana sent a text saying, "I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m going to the milo event and if the snowflakes get out off hand I’m going to wade through their ranks and start cracking skulls."
  • On October 14, 2016, the FBI arrested three men — Patrick Eugene Stein, Curtis Allen, and Gavin Wright — for plotting a series of bomb attacks against the Somali-American community of Garden City, Kansas. Calling themselves “the Crusaders,” they had planned to launch, on the day after the November 2016 presidential election, what The Guardian said “could have been the deadliest domestic terror attack since the Oklahoma bombing in 1995.” Two of these three men were open supporters of Trump and were obsessed with anti-Muslim, anti-refugee conspiracy theories. For Stein, according to a profile in New York magazine, Trump was “the Man.” Allen wrote on Facebook: “I personally back Donald Trump.” The trio even asked a federal judge to boost the number of pro-Trump jurors at their trial (at which they were found guilty of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and of conspiring against rights).
  • On November 23rd, 2015, a group of well-armed 4chan regulars attended a Black Lives Matter camp in Minneapolis, harassing them with racial slurs. They opened fire on activists attempting to chase them out when they returned a second night, wounding five. Only one of the men was charged, resulting in a 15 year sentence. 1
  • On August 19, 2015, Scott Leader, 38, and his brother, Steve Leader, 30, attacked a homeless man in Boston who they wrongly believed to be an undocumented immigrant. “Donald Trump was right,” they told police, after beating the man with a metal pipe and then urinating on him. “All these illegals need to be deported.”
  • On July 23rd, 2015, John Russell Houser, a far-right former bar owner, shot and killed two people and injured nine others before committing suicide in a Lafayette, LA movie theater which was playing Trainwreck, due to its feminist themes and characters, as well as its lead actor's Jewish background. Houser was said to have been a misogynist and praised the actions of Adolf Hitler on online message boards, as well has having a history of arson and domestic violence. 1
  • On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof was inspired by the “hate facts” posted on Daily Stormer and Council of Conservative Citizens to murder nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. 1
  • On Nov 28, 2014, A gunman in Austin, Texas, tried to burn down the Mexican consulate and fired more than 100 rounds at city buildings before dying of a bullet wound.
  • On April 13, 2014, A 73 year old neo-nazi shot and killed three people in the overland park jewish community center, a jewish retirement community in Overland park, Kansas. The shooter fired at two males, 69-year-old Dr. William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were hit by gunfire as they pulled into the parking lot inside their car. Corporon died at the scene of a shotgun wound to the head, while Underwood died of handgun wounds at a hospital. 1
  • On August 5, 2012, a massacre took place at the gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, where 40-year-old Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others. Page committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding police officer. Page was a member of the hammerskins, a white nationalist neo-nazi group. Apart from the shooter, all of the dead were members of the Sikh faith. 1
  • In May 2012, members of the US national socialist movement, and white supremacists lead by Craig Cobb attempted a takeover Leith, a tiny rural town in North Dakota. He published names, photos and addresses of town members and their families, invoking the first amendment when anyone opposed him. The town lived in perpetual fear until he was arrested for terrorizing them with firearms, which after a plea deal was struck that let him off the hook. The affair is shown in the documentary Welcome to Leith (2015).
  • On Dec 6th, 2011, two members of the FEAR militia (Forever Enduring, Always Ready), consisting of soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia, killed two people in an attempt to prevent them from revealing their plans to the public. These included bombing a dam and poison apple orchards in Washington State, sesettingt off explosives in Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia, and assassinating President Barack Obama.
  • In Oct 2011, white supremacist david pederson killed 4 people along the Oregon coast.
  • On June 10th, 2009, 89-year-old white supremacist and holocaust denier James Wenneker von Brunn entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. with a rifle and killed a security guard. 1
  • On May 30, 2009, 3 members of the Arizona Minutemen (a right-wing nativist constitutionalist group) broke in and murdered 29-year-old Raul Flores, Jr., and his daughter, 9-year-old Brisenia Ylianna Flores.
  • On Jan 21st, 2009, self-proclaimed white supremacist Keith Luke of Brockton murdered Selma Goncalves, 22, and Arlindo Goncalves, 72, and injured another. Luke confessed to police during a videotaped interview that he committed the crimes because he wanted to kill “non-whites.”
  • On July 4th weekend, 1999, Benjamin Smith, a member of the neo-nazi world church of the creator, killed 3 people and wounded 10 more in drive by shootings, then committed suicide. He targeted Jews, black people, and Asians. 1
  • On June 18th, 1984, Alan Berg, A jewish talk show host was shot to death as he stepped out of his car into his driveway, by members of The Order, a white supremacist terrorist group.
  • The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. The explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others.
  • The Tulsa race riot, sometimes referred to as the Tulsa massacre, Tulsa pogrom,or Tulsa race riot of 1921, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a mob of white citizens attacked residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the history of the United States.[11] The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the U.S.
  • The East St. Louis riots, or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1-3, 1917 were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40-250 black people and approximately $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US Dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. The events took place in and near East St. Louis, Illinois, an industrial city on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from St. Louis, Missouri. The July 1917 riot was marked by white-led violence throughout the city. These events have been described as the worst case of labor-related violence in 20th-century American history, and among the worst race riots in U.S. history.

Anti-Women

  • Right wing extremists have bombed at least 41 abortion clinics since 1977. According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization of abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, 13 wounded, 100 butyric acid stink bomb attacks, 373 physical invasions, 41 bombings, 655 anthrax threats, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers. Between 1997 and 1990 77 death threats were made with 250 made between 1991 and 1999. 2 3

Indiscriminate

  • On November 5th, 2017, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley killed 26 people and wounded 20 others in a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The attack was the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in Texas, the fifth-deadliest mass shooting in the United States, as well as the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history, surpassing the Charleston church shooting of 2015 and the Waddell Buddhist temple shooting of 1991.1
  • On October 1st, 2017, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, killing 58 people and injuring another 546, after firing more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. About an hour after Paddock fired his last shot into the crowd of 22,000, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive is unknown. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the United States.1
  • The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building[1] in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing happened at 9:02am and killed at least 168 people,[2] injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one-third of the building.[3] The blast destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage.

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