Two University of Colorado students, Adam Perez (a senior majoring in biology) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Eric Schorling (a junior anthropology major), from Virginia, both 21, are alleged to have attacked two men in Boulder on this date in 2007. The alleged assailants reportedly made anti-gay comments during the attack. Perez was charged with second degree assault and bias motivated crimes, the former charge stemming from a stranglehold he is accused of placing on one of the victims. Schorling was arrested for third degree assault, bias motivated crimes and felony criminal mischief. On May 15, 2007, Perez pleaded No Contest to a bias-motivated crime charge, a felony, but was given no jail time; the assault charge was dropped. The court also stipulated that if Perez abides by the law for a year, the felony conviction will disappear from his criminal record. Likewise, on June 12, 2007, Schorling pleaded No Contest to a bias-motivated crime, and his assault charge was dropped. Similar to Perez’s sentence, Schorling was ordered to partake in a restorative justice program, he was given no jail time, and his hate crime conviction will be removed from his criminal record if he stays out of trouble for one year. The No Contest pleas protect Perez and Schorling from implicating themselves if sued civilly.

On this date in 2008 in Boulder, Colorado, Abraham Paquet, 19, of Broomfield, and Joshua Ruzek, 19, of Lafayette, were arrested after officers saw them attacking Ivan Ponce De Leon-Najera, 26, of Louisville, outside the PDQ convenience store at 5200 Manhattan Circle. The teens stood accused of calling the Latino man a slur related to his ethnicity and to have asked him, "Why are you taking our jobs?" before pushing and punching him. Paquet was charged with suspicion of committing a bias-motivated crime, third-degree assault, robbery, and harassment, after he allegedly told a police officer he hit "the (expletive) illegal alien because he shouldn't even be here." Ruzek was charged with a bias-motivated crime, harassment and underage possession of alcohol, after he allegedly was found hiding a large bottle of liquor in his pants. Ten days later, on March 21, 2008, Ruzek and another inmate flooded several jail cells by damaging several sprinkler heads. Ruzek then posted bail. On May 2, 2008, Ruzek pleaded guilty to the bias-motivated crime and a separate criminal mischief charge for his having damaged the sprinkler heads and his having flooded the cells at the Boulder County Jail. Ruzek, was sentenced to 1½ years in jail. In a plea bargaining agreement reached on July 3, 2008, Paquet pleaded guilty to the bias-motivated charge in exchange for all the other charges against him being dropped. On September 5, 2008, Paquet was also sentenced to one-and-a-half years in jail.

On this date in 2008 in a federal court in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kyle Milbourn of Muncie, Indiana, was convicted of one count of interfering with the housing rights of another person, one count of conspiring to interfere with civil rights, one count of using fire during the commission of a felony, and one count of witness tampering for committing a hate crime involving himself and his co-conspirator, Kyle Samuel Shroyer, 22, of Muncie, burning an eight-foot tall cross on or about March 6, 2006, in front of the home of a mother with three bi-racial children. Milbourn faces a maximum punishment of 40 years of imprisonment and a $1 million fine. Shroyer is serving his sentence in a federal prison in Ohio and he is to be released on May 2, 2009.

In 2009 on this date in Metairie, Louisiana, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office reported that an African-American mother and daughter were the victims of someone who placed a painted "KKK" sign on their yard. Ellender Knox, 57, and her daughter Myaia Knox, 30, recently had purchased the house in the city that was comprised of about 87% white residents at the time and only about 6.3% black; and, they were in the process of moving into their home when a contractor discovered the sign.