In New Bedford, Massachusetts, on this date in 2006, Jacob D. Robida, 18, of New Bedford, entered the Puzzles Lounge, asked the bartender if the place was a gay establishment, and upon being told that it was, began to attack patrons with an axe and by opening fire on them. Three patrons were shot and one of these also received head lacerations from the axe attack. Robida fled the state and upon being stopped in Arkansas four days after his violent rampage in southeastern Massachusetts, he shot and killed his female companion, Jennifer Bailey, 33, of Charleston, West Virginia, and Gassman, Arkansas police officer, James Sell, 63, during a shootout when police tried to arrest him after a routine traffic stop. Robida was also killed as a result of the shootout with police.

In Irvine, California, on this date in 2008, Ryan Lawrence Monfils, 20, a self-proclaimed white supremacist from Stanton, California (Orange County), allegedly attacked an African-American security guard outside of the Dave & Buster's restaurant at the Irvine Spectrum Center. Monfils, a cashier at a McDonald’s restaurant in Orange, California, was charged with one felony count of battery as a hate crime. He is said to have uttered racial slurs at the guard, to have tossed a lighted cigarette in the man’s face, and to have repeatedly punched him. Monfils, who at the time of the alleged hate-based attack was on probation after being convicted of battery in December, 2007, is also accused of uttering racial slurs to an African-American police officer at the scene. Monfils, who pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charge, was arraigned on February 21, 2008, at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach. He faces a maximum sentence of three years in state prison, if convicted.

On this date in 2009 in an Asheville, North Carolina, federal courtroom, a jury awarded an African-American construction worker, Michael A. Kitchen, 29, of Brevard, North Carolina, $50,000 for the race-based abuses he suffered at the hands of co-workers when he was employed at Farrell Log Structures located in Pigsah Forest, North Carolina, in 2004 in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Mr. Kitchen, who made audiotapes of the racial slurs uttered to him, said co-workers shot a nail gun at him, threw wood, stones, shingles, and chicken bones at him, and placed a noose around his neck. Farrell Log Structures—located in Transylvania County which was 94% white according to the 2000 U.S. census—which claimed the white co-workers all resigned after an internal investigation, was the defendant in the civil lawsuit. Mr. Kitchen fled the work site the day co-workers put the noose around his neck and never returned to work.

In Portland, Maine on this date in 2010, it was discovered that someone spray-painted swastikas on four headstones at the Mount Sinai Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery off of Warren Avenue. The cemetery vandalism was the second anti-Semitic hate crime in Portland over a twelve-month time-frame. In 2009, a sign at Congregation Sharray Tphiloh was also vandalized with a black swastika. The Jewish Community Alliance has offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) of the cemetery vandalism.