In 2004 on this date in Springfield, Missouri, a three-count federal indictment by a grand jury was unsealed alleging that five white men—Steven A. Heldenbrand, 26; Kenneth Francis Johnsen, 27; Mark Thomas Kooms, 27, Michael Shane McCormick, 29; and Michael Angelo Osorio, 23—used a knife and threats to prevent two black men, Maurice Wilson and Kenny Wright, from dining at a Denny's restaurant in Springfield in 2001. Wilson was said to have been stabbed three times and both men were allegedly threatened by the five white supremacists whose motivation was anti-black bias. Witnesses described the defendants as wearing T-shirts touting the white supremacist group Aryan Nation and having swastika tattoos. All were convicted. Michael Shane McCormick was released from federal prison on March 23, 2006; Heldenbrand was released on December 11, 2006; Osorio was released March 9, 2007; Johnsen was released on October 16, 2007; and Kooms was released on November 30, 2007.

On this date in 2002, jury selection began in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, for the murder trial of Darrin D. Grosskopf, 33, who stood accused of stabbing to death Keith Ward, 21, in Waterloo in 2001, because Mr. Ward was gay. Grosskopf was convicted on March 21, 2002, and was sentenced to life in prison by Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge John Ullsvik. He is serving his sentence at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

On this date in 2007 in Southaven (DeSoto County), Mississippi, residents woke up to the letters "KKK" spray-painted onto their mailboxes.

On the campus of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois on this date in 2009, a DePaul student, Patrick Stewart, 19, was attacked by three people who yelled homophobic slurs at him as they punched and kicked him. One of the perpetrators was wearing a mask. University and Chicago police have investigated the case as a hate crime.

On this date in 2010 in Trenton, New Jersey, a federal grand jury indicted Vincent Johnson of Brick, New Jersey, on fourteen counts of threatening employees of five Latino civil rights organizations by allegedly sending members of those organizations threatening emails between November 2006 and February 2009. Johnson was specifically charged with five counts of transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce, five counts of interfering with the exercise of civil rights, and four counts of using a computer service to place a person in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury (commonly known as cyberstalking). If convicted on all charges, Johnson could receive up to 95 years in prison and be ordered to pay $3.5 million in fines. The civil rights groups allegedly targeted by Vincent Johnson were: LatinoJustice Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the National Council of La Raza; the League of United Latin American Citizens; and the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders.