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 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 he had been convicted on all charges, Johnson could have received 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. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 20, 2010, that Vincent Johnson pleaded guilty to five counts of interfering with the exercise of civil rights, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. In addition, Johnson pleaded guilty to five counts of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. Vincent Johnson was to be sentenced on January 26, 2011. In actuality, he was sentenced on April 18, 2011, to 50 months in prison, three years supervised release, and fined $10,000.

In 2011 on this date in Clayton, North Carolina, the home of a gay couple was burned to the ground in what the Johnson County Sheriff's Department investigated as a possible hate crime. The couple was out of town at the time of the intentionally set blaze on New Castle Court, and one neighbor said that the gay couple was harassed on multiple occasions for about a year prior to the arson. The neighbor said a note with derogatory language was left in the couple's mailbox, an anti-gay slur was written on their house, and the tires of a car parked in their garage were slashed. The gay couple's home was also broken into days before the arson, and law enforcement officials said that whoever started the blaze also stole two lawn mowers from the gay couple's home. The sheriff's department is looking for a white Chevrolet S-10 Crew Cab pickup truck towing a small trailer. On February 8, 2011, Sheriff Steve Bizzell said that there was insufficient evidence to indicate the arson was a hate crime. However, he said as the investigation continues that could change. If you have any information about this robbery and arson, please contact the Johnston County Sheriff's Office at 919-989-5010.

On the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas on this date in 2011 vandals broke a six-foot tall menorah that sat outside the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, located on West 19th Street. Yet, citing no evidence whatsoever to support his claim, Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center, said that the vandalism was not a hate crime. However, there were no reports of vandalism at any nearby properties at the time of the vandalism at the Chabad Center.

On this date in 2011 in the Kankakee County Court in Kankakee, Illinois, Judge Kendall O. Wenzelman awarded $240,000 in compensatory damages and $1.2 million in punitive damages to three African-American men all from Kankakee—Vantis Coiley; his brother, Isaiah Coiley; and their cousin, Kenyon Coiley. The lawsuit, which sought damages under the Illinois Hate Crime Act, was brought by the three men against four white men—Larry DeLawder, Jeremiah Spainhour, Jason Stinebring, and Richard Rybolt—three of whom were convicted of a brutal race-based attack on the three black men in Manteno, Illinois in February 2005. Vantis, Isaiah, and Kenyon were attacked outside the home of a white female friend they were visiting. Their attackers yelled racial slurs at them, and beat them with a hammer, bricks and knives. The victims were also punched and kicked, and they had the tires to their car slashed and a screwdriver stuck in the ignition in order to stop them from fleeing. Nearly 20 white men were involved in the attack. Jason Stinebring was convicted of felony criminal charges in 2005, and in 2006 Larry Delawder and Jeremiah Spainhour pled guilty to felony criminal charges for their participation in the attack that took place in a former Sundown Town which at the time of the attack was nearly all white. It is not uncommon for residents of nearly all white communities to engage in bias-motivated crimes or to be charged with hate crimes, and as of the 2000 U.S. Census Manteno, Illinois was 97.79% White and just 0.27% Black or African-American.