On this date in 2001 in a federal courtroom in Columbia, South Carolina, Ku Klux Klansman, James B. Crawford, 49, of Sumter, South Carolina, pleaded Guilty to one count of conspiracy to oppress and intimidate members of the African-American Goodwill Presbyterian Church in Sumter for burning two crosses at the church on April 1, 2000, thus depriving church members of their civil rights, including the right to worship freely. Two co-conspirators, Bryan Carraway and a juvenile, previously pleaded Guilty to related charges. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Crawford is to be released from prison on August 5, 2008.

In Monroe, Louisiana on this date in 2008, Jared Horne, whose age was reported by the media to be 18 and 22 years and who is a self-described drug addict, and Anthony "Tony" Cascio, 21, were charged with attempted second-degree murder and a hate crime in the Fourth Judicial District Court in connection to an unprovoked assault on a homeless black man, Walter Ford, 42, in Monroe. Mr. Ford was beaten and stabbed after he asked Horne and Cascio for money on North 18th Street on this same date. Mr. Ford was chosen as a victim because of his race. Cascio was also charged with obstruction of justice for his alleged role in the attack on Mr. Ford who suffered a collapsed lung and internal bleeding from the attack. On June 19, 2008, Horne pleaded Guilty to attempted second-degree murder and a hate crime, although at his plea bargaining Horne, who had bragged about the attack to friends, denied remembering the attack (he claimed he was high on Xanax) and stated there was no intention to kill anyone. Horne, who was convicted and sentenced in 2004 for second-degree kidnapping and second-degree battery and who was out on parole for those crimes at the time Mr. Ford was attacked, faced up to 55 years in prison for the current crimes. Horne was sentenced on August 20, 2008, to 20 years of hard labor—15 years for the attempted murder and five years for the hate crime—and he will not be eligible for probation or parole until 2033. On February 27, 2009, Tony Cascio, 19—who pleaded guilty to and who received probation for second-degree battery and commission of a hate crime on September 18, 2008, for his role in the attack on Mr. Ford—was arrested in Monroe and charged with driving while intoxicated, rapid acceleration, running a red light, speeding, driving left of center and consumption of alcohol by a person under 21.

On this date in 2009 in Larose, Louisiana, two Lafourche Parish males, Glenn Wilson Jr., 17, of Lockport, and Spenser Dominique, 17, of Larose, allegedly targeted a Romanian shipyard worker, Vasile Suler, 51, because of his nationality as he was walking from the North American Shipyard to the Larose Truck Stop. The two teenagers were charged with attempted robbery and aggravated assault for allegedly trying to steal money and jewelry from Mr. Suler. Wilson and Dominique were also charged with a hate crime. Lafourche Chief Deputy Bud Dill said Mr. Suler told police he knew of other Romanians who had been assaulted based on their nationality but were too afraid to contact the police.

On this date in 2009 in Mobile, Alabama, the Tree of Life Messianic Synagogue was desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and neo-Nazi markings allegedly by Thomas Hayward Lewis, of Mobile. Lewis, 24, was indicted on federal hate crimes charges on June 24, 2010, for his alleged role in the synagogue vandalism and also for carrying an unlicensed weapon. If convicted of committing the hate crime charges, Hayward Lewis could get up to 10 years in prison.

In 2010 on this date outside the Filipino Community Center in the Columbia City section of South Seattle, Washington, two Somali Muslims, Adnan Basher Osman, 22, and Abdinasir A. Ahmed, 21, of the NewHolly section of South Seattle, attacked another Muslim man at a Somali New Year's party. Both charged with malicious harassment—Washington state's name for a hate crime—Osman and Ahmed allegedly beat their victim about the head while yelling anti-gay slurs at him including shouting "you gay motherfucker;" and, Ahmed, also allegedly yelled "I wanna beat your ass, you gay ass motherfucker," as he fled the scene. A security guard witnessed the hate-crime assault and was able to detain Osman until police arrived. Fearing for his life, the victim quit attending his mosque, because Ahmed allegedly told "others in the Somalian community that he is going to kill [the victim] because he is gay", according to court documents. The victim also told police investigators that in Somali culture gay men are stoned to death.