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List of hate crimes in the US

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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.

White supremacy

• According to hate crimes researcher Brian Levin, hate crimes in nine US metropolitan areas have risen by 20% in the year following Trump's election. ¹
• 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. ¹
• 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 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 August 14th, 2017, at the 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting) ¹
• 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

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

Sources / Starting points

• Southern povery law center