On this date in 1999 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lucas Brouillard, 18, Justin Santos, 18, Scott Oliveira, 19, Adam Dapic, 21, (all from Fall River), and three juveniles were indicted on charges of Assault & Battery with a Dangerous Weapon and civil rights violations. They are alleged to have thrown rocks, bricks, and pieces of furniture at a group of Cambodian-American children on May 4, 1998, while also hurling racial slurs at them as the children played in the yard of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fall River. In August, 1999, Dapic, was found guilty of 16 counts of assault and battery, assault, and violating the civil rights of Cambodian victims, and he was sentenced to three years in state prison and ordered to take a diversity awareness course. Oliveira was found guilty of 15 counts of assault and battery, and he was sentenced to two years at the Bristol County House of Correction, and ordered to take a diversity awareness course. Santos was found guilty of two counts of assault and battery and he received a suspended sentence and ordered to take a diversity course as a condition of his probation.

At the Captain's Sports Bar in Vancouver, Washington on this date in 2010, three white men, Zachary Loren Beck—a Vancouver man who was previously arrested on drug charges, who is a member of the white supremacist Aryan Nation group, and who in 2003 ran unsuccessfully for the city council in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, as a white supremacist—Kory Boyd, a white supremacist skinhead from Vancouver, and Lawrence E. Silk assaulted a black bar patron after Beck first told the bartender that the only black customer "had to leave" or there would be trouble. After going outside the bar to discuss how they were going to attack their victim, the three men—all with ties to the white supremacy movement—went back inside the bar, yelled "White Power," "You're dead," and racist slurs at the victim. Beck then tried to hit the victim and Boyd threw a glass bottle at him. Silk tried to stab the victim outside the bar. By the time Zachary L. Beck, 31, and Kory Boyd, 25, were arrested on August 25, 2010 on federal hate crimes charges, which was heard in the U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington, Captain's Sports Bar had closed. Boyd and Beck were each charged with conspiracy to violate civil rights and interference with a federally protected right. Silk was also charged with federal crimes related to the attack. Beck, who planned a white supremacist rally in Longview, Washington in 2007, was also charged with witness tampering because he allegedly attempted to get his ex-girlfriend to provide an alibi for him. On June 9, 2011, Zachary Beck, 32, was convicted after a three-day bench trial of conspiracy to violate civil rights, interference with a federally protected right and witness tampering. According to a press release from U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan, Silk and Boyd "have already been convicted for their roles. Silk pleaded guilty to Washington State charges of malicious harassment [a hate crime] and received a two-year sentence. Boyd pleaded guilty to a federal hate-crime charge and was sentenced in January 2011 to 34 months' imprisonment." At the time of Beck's conviction, Kory Boyd, 26, was serving his sentence at the Federal Detention Center - Sea Tac in Seattle, Washington, and he is expected to complete his sentence on March 7, 2013. Beck also was sent to the Federal Detention Center - Sea Tac to serve his sentence. At the time of Beck's conviction Lawrence Silk was serving his state sentence at the Airway Heights Corrections Center in Airway Heights, Washington. On September 2, 2011, the Department of Justice announced that Zachary Beck was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to 51 months in prison and three years supervised release for conspiring to violate the civil rights of the victim because of his race, forcefully interfering with the victim’s civil rights, and trying to persuade a witness to lie about the crimes related to the attack. See our October 31 calendar page for more information about Zachary Beck.

In Laurel, Maryland on this date in 2011 a white man, Robert Gonzales, 54 (Date of Birth: May 22, 1956), allegedly hurled racial slurs at a group of black teenagers believed to be Laurel High School students while pointing a shotgun at them in the Laurel Mall parking lot. He then allegedly confronted shopping mall security officers with the shotgun before fleeing in a car. Gonzlales was arrested on January 20, 2011 in Laurel, and charged with first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. The Prince George's County State's Attorney's Office considered filing hate crime charges against Gonzales, but we have no information if that occurred.

In Sallis, Mississippi (Attala County) on this date in 2012, a black man engaged to be married, Cedric Montae Sharkey, 24, was found shot in the woods following a chase on Attala Road 4106. Police arrested two white men, Frankie Barber, 52, and Barry Ware, 42, both of Sallis, and charged them with the fatal shooting that some residents said was a hate crime. The FBI will investigate the slaying to determine whether the murder of Mr. Sharkey was a hate crime homicide.