On this date in 1998, in Kenton County, Kentucky, Anthony "Tony" Gamble, who was the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan Tristate Knight Riders, was convicted of seven sex charges related to the December 1, 1992, raping of two young girls. Currently serving his lengthy 55-year prison sentence at the
Kentucky State Reformatory, Gamble was found guilty of: first degree Sexual Abuse; first degree Sodomy; second degree Sodomy; two counts of third degree Sodomy; first degree Rape; and, third degree Rape.
At the St. Charles East High School in St. Charles, Illinois, on this date in 2008 a white 14-year-old freshman wrote a racial slur on the locker of his former girlfriend, who is African-American, and he was charged with a hate crime. The youth pleaded guilty at the age of 15 on July 29, 2008, in the Kane County Juvenile Court to criminal damage and disorderly conduct in exchange for having the hate crime charge against him dropped. He was sentenced to 18 months of supervision and was ordered to write an apology.
In the City of Newburgh, New York, on this date in 2008, a group of as many as ten Black youths are alleged to have robbed a 38-year-old Latino man at the corner of Ann and Clark streets in what police have called a hate crime. Apprehended were Easton Tuff, 16, of the City of Newburgh, and a 15-year-old juvenile. The victim told police the mob approached him, called him a “fucking Mexican”, shoved him to the ground and then began to rummage through his pockets. The incident was apparently witnessed by a taxi driver. Both males arrested were charged with were charged with second-degree robbery, a felony, and Tuff was also charged with a hate crime.
In the early morning hours on this date in 2009 in Modesto, California, two vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic slurs, including swastikas, on the front entrance area of Congregation Beth Shalom on Sherwood Avenue, which police said is a hate crime. The vandals were caught on video surveillance tape.
In Rapid City, South Dakota, on this date in 2009, a carload of white teenagers said to range from 12 to 17 years of age, attacked three homeless Native Americans, including one in a wheelchair. The race-based attacks included the perpetrators yelling obscenities, pointing and firing a BB gun at victims, shooting a victim in the back with a BB gun, and throwing a bottle of urine at one of the victims. Five teenaged males were arrested; their identities were not released because of their ages, and their legal cases are to be handled out of juvenile court. They face possible felony charges of malicious intimidation or harassment (a hate crime).
At the Bottoms Up bar on this date in 2010 in Pekin, Illinois—a Sundown town that barred blacks and Chinese people from living in the town in the past, a town that as of 2010 was almost entirely white, a town whose high school (Pekin High School) had had a mascot called the "Chinks" until the school received pressure by Chinese-American groups, and a town whose high school also switched to a different athletic conference in 2006 primarily so its teams would not have to play interracial teams from Peoria, Illinois, but would instead play all-white teams from other nearby Sundown towns—a biracial woman, Felicia Canamore, 22, of Pekin, had a racist slur repeatedly hurled at her by a white woman and then was assaulted by this woman. The woman who assaulted Ms. Canamore was not arrested; and, Ms. Canamore reported that police would not talk to
her and threatened to arrest her if she did not remain on the sidewalk when they were called to the bar because of the assault. It is not uncommon for residents of current and former Sundown Towns—so-called Sundown Townies—to be charged with hate crimes (regardless of the bias motivation for the hate crime) or to be involved in bias-motivated violence.
In Clear Lake, Texas on this date in 2011 the second suspicious fire in two weeks occurred at the Clear Lake Education Center, a mosque located at Sea Lark and Ramada. The two fires prompted the Council on American-Islamic Relations to ask for FBI involvement in solving these arsons. The FBI determined that this was not a hate crime incident.