On this date in 2007 in a southern California courtroom, Alix Bastier Rolland, 21, pleaded guilty to felony vandalism while acting in concert, a hate crime allegation and a misdemeanor charge of vandalism of religious property for defacing statues of Jesus and a lamb at a Mira Mesa, California church with anti-Semitic slogans and satanic symbols causing $30,000 to $40,000 damage to the marble statues. Rolland was later sentenced to five years on probation, to make monetary restitution, and to remain in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Los Angeles for at least another year.

On this date in 2008, Georgetown University’s online newspaper, thehoya.com, reported in an article titled “Ten Bias Incidents Reported Last Fall” that the university had 15 bias-related incidents in the spring and summer of 2006, and an additional eight in the fall of 2006, as tallied by Georgetown’s Bias Reporting System which began in early 2004. Yet none of these 23 incidents were reported to the FBI; that agency’s hate crime statistics show no bias-related crimes occurring at the Washington, D.C., university in 2006.

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this date in 2008, Temple University students allegedly yelled anti-Semitic slurs at two college students who do not attend Temple, and then at least one of the Temple students allegedly assaulted the 23-year-old Penn State University student, Jordan Blady, who was standing near a Jewish fraternity which is located near the intersection of Broad Street and Norris Street on Temple’s main campus. The victim, who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, was with a 22-year-old male companion who attended the Community College of Philadelphia at the time of the attack. The Temple students said to have been involved in the attack allegedly yelled "We hate Jews! We hate Jews!" and “f-ing Jews” at the time of the attack after surrounding the two Jewish men. Temple University officials are calling the incident a hate crime. Mr. Blady suffered a broken nose and other serious injuries according to police. Philadelphia police pursued criminal charges against the four Temple students who were suspended from school because of the incident, and pending a University Disciplinary Committee hearing, they could be expelled from Temple. The identities of the four assailants had been kept private initially due to university privacy policies. However, police identified the four white men, who turned themselves in, as Michael Walsh, 20, of Florham Park, New Jersey, David Scott, 20, of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, Stephen Scott, 19, also of Willow Grove, and Bryan Pedreiro, 18, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, who had been a high school wrestling star. On April 29, 2008, Judge Nazario Jimenez dismissed aggravated-assault charges against the four defendants who still stand charged with simple assault, ethnic intimidation, and terroristic threats. They were to be arraigned and to go to trial for these charges on May 20, 2008.

In Warwick, Rhode Island on this date in 2009, an African-American employee at Allied Aviation, John Valles, had a noose hanging over his desk at T.F. Green Airport. Two employees responsible for the hanging noose were fired; however, an Allied Aviation employee who discovered the noose and who took a photograph of it as evidence, Eric Carlin, was also fired. Mr. Carlin filed a lawsuit against Allied Aviation, a company which was fined about $2 million in March, 2008, by the EEOC for harassment of black and Hispanic workers at its Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas airport facility. Mr. Valles said that the Rhode Island Airport Police were unsupportive of his efforts to file a criminal complaint in the matter.

In 2010 on this date in Boca Raton, Florida, the Temple Beth El on Southwest Fourth Avenue was significantly vandalized in a hate crime attack by three white teenaged males, ages 14, 15, and 17, that police refused to deem a hate crime in spite of the anti-Semitic nature of the crime. Vases and chairs were broken in the synagogue; and, the teen vandals, who confessed to vandalizing the temple, also carved a swastika, "KKK," "Hail Hitler" and "nigger" on the bathroom doors.

On this date in 2011 in Long Beach, California, a black man, Olivier Rodrich Saintvictor, 23, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, was charged with two counts of felony vandalism with a special allegation for a hate crime for vandalizing two Long Beach gay establishments—The Center Long Beach on East Fourth Street, and Club Ripples on East Ocean Boulevard—and the Dolphin Bar, a Redondo Beach, California, gay bar, all on December 17, 2010. Olivier R. Saintvictor, who was arrested on February 8, 2011, allegedly smashed windows at all three gay establishments. A pretrial hearing was scheduled for April 12, 2011, and Saintvictor's trial had been scheduled for May 19, 2011. However, on September 20, 2011, in Torrance Municipal Court Olivier Saintvictor pleaded no contest to felony vandalism charges with a hate crime allegation and he also agreed to pay restitution to the victims. Saintvictor is expected to be sentenced on October 11, 2011 and he faces up to nine years in state prison.

At the Cavalier Country Club Apartment complex on this date in 2011 in Newark, Delaware, a white man, Jason Patton, 29, of Newark allegedly hurled racist slurs at seven members of a family after he had complained to one of the family members about a gas odor eminating from the family's apartment. Patton eventually began swinging his arms at several family members before a 61-year-old family member knocked Patton to the ground. According to the New Castle County Police Department, Patton was charged with three counts of a hate crime, three counts of terroristic threatening, four counts of menacing and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child. He was arraigned and committed to the Howard Young Correctional Institute after failing to post $6400 secured bond. Patton was also ordered to have no contact with the victims. We have no information about the family's race.