In Detroit, Michigan on this date in 1927, the automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, 63, wrote a letter of apology to the leader of the American Jewish Committee, Louis Marshall, for his anti-Semitic essays that appeared from 1920 through 1925 in his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. His apology was insincere, however; in 1938 Ford accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal that Nazi Germany could give a foreigner. Ford's anti-Semitic beliefs are still adhered to by some, such as the Australian internet site, www.biblebelievers.org.au, which has published on its website Ford's "The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem."

On this date in 2008 in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, New York, about 200 Sikhs marched in protest of hate crimes perpetrated against Sikh school children in New York. The Sikh Coalition, a New York-based advocacy and rights group that organized the march, had released a survey in April, 2008, showing that 60% of 400 Sikh students in New York said they had suffered from either bias-related harassment or bias-related violence in New York schools.

In Poway, California (San Diego County), on this date in 2009, two black brothers were attacked by four Latino men who chased and shouted racial slurs at the brothers who were walking to their car from their apartment complex in the 13600 block of Pomerado Road. The young Latino perptrators beat on the parked car, one of them with a metal pipe, and ordered the brothers out of the vehicle. The four perpetrators continued to yell racial slurs as they smashed the rear window and some of the side windows out of the car; but, the brothers were able to escape by driving away. Police in the upscale city have labelled the attack a hate crime.

On this date in 2009 at the corner of John and Oak streets in Hudson Falls, New York, a white man, Kyle D. Kennedy, 19, allegedly approached three teenaged males, one of them Latino, and uttered racial slurs at them, including using the word "spic" repeatedly, before allegedly punching one boy in the stomach and another in the face. Kyle Kennedy was charged with second-degree aggravated harassment (a hate crime) and endangering the welfare of a child.

At the intersection of Woodland Avenue and Silverspur Street in Ojai, California on this date in 2011, two 17-year-old males (at least one of whom is Hispanic) both from Mira Monte, California, were allegedly confronted by Daniel Dockery, 22, and Shaura Criner, 29, both from Meiners Oaks, California. Allegedly, Dockery told the victims he was a "skinhead" who hates "Mexicans," shouted sexual and racial slurs at the victims, asked them if they were part of a local Latino street gang (they were not), and then slapped one of the victims in the face. Dockery then allegedly told the victims he had a handgun and he threatened to shoot them in the head if they did not leave the area. Criner is said to have then urged Dockery to steal the victims' wallets and bicycles (he did not steal them however). Then, after leaving and returning to the intersection Dockery and Criner allegedly tried to run over the two teenaged victims who then notified the police. Dockery and Criner were both arrested on charges of felony criminal threats and possession of a controlled substance (they are said to have been in possession of Xanax and Klonopin upon their arrests); in addition, Dockery was also charged with battery. The Ventura County District Attorney's Office refused to file hate crime charges against Daniel Dockery or Shaura Criner, despite the slurs alleged used during the indicent. The law enforcement investigator, Ventura County Sheriff's Department Detective Steve Michalec, steadfastly believed the incident was a "racially motivated" hate crime, and referring to the District Attorney's refusal to prosecute Dockery on hate crime charges, he stated, "I don't know the answers as to why they didn't file a hate crime." On August 3, 2011, Daniel Dockery—who was charged with battery, possession of a controlled substance, and making criminal threats—pleaded guilty to one count of making a felony criminal threat. Criner—who was charged with possession of a controlled substance, and criminal threats—pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor criminal threats. Dockery was to be sentenced on August 19, 2011. In 2010, there were 11 hate crime cases referred to the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, but only three (27%) were prosecuted as hate crimes.