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## White supremacy
- According to hate crimes researcher Brian Levin, hate crimes in nine US metropolitan areas [have risen by 20%](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) in the year following Trump's election. <sup>[1](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306)</sup>
- 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](https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi).
- On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car toward a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), 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." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide)</sup>
- On May 30th, 2017, [Anthony Robert Hammond attacked a black person](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485) with a machete causing serious injuries, while shouting racial slurs, in Clearlake CA. <sup>[1](http://www.newsweek.com/anthony-hammond-hate-crime-us-clearlake-617485)</sup>
- On May 29th, 2017, Jimmy Kramer, a 20 year old Native American, [was run over during his birthday party](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/) 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. <sup>[1](http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/young-father-run-down-killed-in-grays-harbor-county-campground-confrontation/)</sup>