In Salt Lake City, Utah, on this date in 2003 a Native American man was assaulted at the Port O'Call bar by several white supremacists who targeted their victim based on his race. Four years later, the three white supremacists were convicted in federal court for conspiring to violate the victim's civil rights after prosecutors successfully argued to an eight-man, four-woman jury that the three defendants were trying to send a message of racial intolerance to Salt Lake City residents.

In Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska State Patrol Officer Robert E. Henderson, an 18-year veteran trooper, is fired on this date in 2006 at the age of 50 for his membership dating back to at least October, 2005 in a faction of the Ku Klux Klan (White Knights) and for posting racist remarks on a Klan website. New York arbitrator, Paul J. Caffera, later ordered Henderson back to work stating the state of Nebraska violated Henderson's First Amendment rights, and stated it violated the state trooper's contract. However, on December 15, 2006, a Lancaster County (Nebraska) judge approved the firing of Henderson stating his termination was justified based on a threat to the public's trust in the state's law enforcement agency if it allowed Henderson back on the job. Henderson then appealed that decision to the Nebraska Supreme Court, and on February 27, 2009, that high court upheld Henderson's firing. Justice John Gerrard wrote, "One cannot simultaneously wear the badge of the Nebraska State Patrol and the robe of a Klansman without degrading what that badge represents when worn by any officer."