On this date in Brandywine, Maryland in 2007 an unnamed hero followed a car in his truck for about nine miles after phoning law enforcement that the car's occupants had vandalized neighborhood mailboxes. The brave Charles County resident created a barricade to detain the car's occupants using his truck and some rope after the car drove down a dead-end street. Three white boys, ranging in ages from 15 to 17, were arrested in the case when police arrived at the barricaded dead-end street. The case, which involved numerous mailboxes that had racially offensive phrases, a reference to Hitler and swastikas written on them—in addition to the destruction of mailboxes—led to further investigation as books about Hitler's Third Reich were found in the back seat of the vehicle of the arrested teenagers. In their continued investigation, Charles County Sheriff’s officers made additional arrests of two white teenaged males, and in the car of one of the arrested teens were found books about the Third Reich and a black marker. The teenagers were charged as juveniles with one count of committing a hate crime and 19 counts each of property destruction.

In Kansas City, Missouri, on this date in 2005, a black man, William D. McCay, 44, was shot to death as he walked down a street at 9th Street and Brighton in what police and prosecutors have called a race-based hate crime. Arrested were Steven Sandstrom, 20, and Gary Eye, 18, who are both white. At their hate crime murder trial in 2008 it was revealed that Sandstrom sent more than 20 letters to his incarcerated cousin, Justin Buchanan, while both were jailed, urging Buchanan to kill potential testimony witnesses in the McCay case, namely, Regennia Rios, an eyewitness to the killing, and Vincent DeLeon, who learned of the murder after the fact. Buchanan had previously pleaded guilty to threatening a federal witness, and he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors by testifying against his cousin. During her testimony, Rios, 22—who at the time was serving a five-year federal sentence for lying to FBI investigators about her role in the case—said under the protection of federal immunity that Eye disclosed that he killed McCay because he thought blacks should not live in Kansas City’s Northeast area. Both Sandstrom and Eye were convicted in federal court, but the escaped the death penalty when the jury gave them life in prison. On September 9, 2008, a federal judge formally sentneced the two to multiple life sentences.