In 2000 on this date in an Arizona courtroom, high school student and white supremacist gang member Matt Torres was handed a six-month jail sentence for a gang assault on a Mesa, Arizona teenager at a Taco Bell in Gilbert, Arizona, in 1999. Michael Spears, another member of the Gilbert, Arizona, white supremacist gang known as the Devil Dogs, pleaded guilty to felony assault charges stemming a month later on February 7, 2000. In all, seven Devil Dogs gang members pleaded guilty. Several weeks later, on February 24, 2000, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, a former Mafia hit man who testified against mob boss John Gotti, was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona for financing an “Ecstasy” drug ring connected to the Devil Dogs who Gravano was said to have used.

On this date in 2007, the body of Cha Vang, 30, was found on a wildlife refuge near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Hmong man was shot and stabbed five times to death. "I know there are many people in the Hmong community and the community at large, that are wondering if this is a hate crime," Dick Campbell, spokesman for Mr. Vang's widow said after the first-degree murder charge against a 28-year old white man, James Allen Nichols of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was announced. James Nichols, who had previous convictions for burglary (three counts) and criminal damage to property, although charged with Mr. Vang's murder and other related charges, was never charged with a hate crime; many in the Hmong community had called for such a charge. Prosecutors, however, argued that anti-Hmong statements Nichols made to authorities and to his former employer was evidence the slaying was intentional and based on bias. On October 6, 2007, Nichols was convicted of second-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse and being a felon in possession of a firearm, and on November 28, 2007, Marinette County Circuit Judge David Miron sentenced Nichols, then 29 years old, to 69 years in prison and 30 years extended supervision following his prison term.

On this date in 2008, at the Jewish Westlawn Cemetery in Norridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, 57 gravestones were vandalized with anti-Semitic words and messages, including numerous swastikas, a Star of David hanging from a gallows, and the words "Juden Raus" which translates from German to "Jew Out." Approximately $100,000 in damage was done as a result of the actions of the spray-painting vandal. Law enforcement investigated the crime as a hate crime, authorities immediately speculated the calculated work of adults in the incident, and by February 1, 2008, authorities arrested a 21-year-old Polish immigrant, Mariusz Wdziekonski, of Norridge, who admitted he is a member of an Illinois neo-Nazi group in connection with the vandalism. Wdziekonski, who authorities have said also had belonged to a neo-Nazi group in Poland and who has lived in the United States for four years, could face up to seven years in prison if convicted of a felony hate crime. On February 2, 2008, he had to surrender his passport and his bail was set at $250,000 bond.