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."

On this date in 2010 in Maplewood, New Jersey, a black man, John Staten, 30, of Orange, New Jersey, allegedly killed a gay man, Arthur S. Downey III, 27, after the two met on a gay internet chat room. Staten was arrested in Newark, New Jersey on October 19, 2010. Mr. Downey was found by his roommate beaten and dead in his own bed in their apartment on Henry Place. The cause of death was asphyxiation and blunt force trauma. Mr. Downey’s 2007 blue Chevrolet Trail Blazer was also stolen allegedly by Staten after the killing of Mr. Downey. Acting Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino said that the "sexual orientation" of Mr. Downey figured as a motive for his homicide, and it was investigated as a sexual orientation-based hate crime homicide by the Bias Crimes Division of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Following his arrest, John Staten pleaded not guilty to the murder and he was held on $1 million bail. On June 13, 2011, Staten, 32, was indicted by a grand jury for Mr. Downey's murder; and, he was also indicted on two weapons offenses arising from his alleged unlawful use of an iron as a bludgeon, and on theft charges for allegedly stealing Mr. Downey's vehicle, X-Box, and other property. No hate crime charges were filed against John Staten who is to be arraigned on July 5, 2011, before Superior Court Judge Peter J. Vazquez. If convicted as charged, he faces life in prison. If you have any information about Mr. Downey's murder, please call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office tips hotline at 1-877-TIPS-7432 (1-877-847-7432).

In Costa Mesa, California, on this date in 2011, a white man, Chad Martin Jurjaks, 30, of Costa Mesa, allegedly yelled "Fuck Mexicans!" while intoxicated at a 42-year-old Hispanic man, his wife, cousin and 26-year-old nephew as they entered a 7-Eleven store and then Jurjacks allegedly punched the 42-year-old and the 26-year-old men. Arrested that day near the store, Jurjaks, who has a prior criminal conviction, was released from custody on March 6, 2011. On March 24, 2011, Orange County District Attorney's Office filed felony hate crime charges against Chad Jurjaks and put a warrant out for his arrest. Costa Mesa police brought Jurjaks into custody at the Central Jail in Santa Ana on March 25th, and his bail was set at $200,000. Jurjaks was arraigned on two felony counts of hate crime battery causing injury on March 28, 2011 in the Orange County Superior courtroom in the men's jail. Chad M. Jurjaks faced a sentencing enhancement for a prior strike conviction for criminal threats in 2006, according to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, and Jurjaks could have received up to seven years and four months in state prison if convicted as charged. His trial was scheduled for the first week in April, 2011. However, on January 20, 2012, Chad Jurjaks, 31, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of hate crime battery causing injury, and he is scheduled to be sentenced on February 17, 2012.