In 2007 on this date in New Castle County, Delaware, police arrested John P. Gillen, 42, of Scottie Lane, New Castle, with four counts of hate crime, aggravated menacing, terroristic threatening, reckless endangering, possession of a deadly weapon during a felony and criminal mischief. He stood accused of menacing a black family by allegedly slashing their car's tire, using racial slurs, and threatening them with a knife while following the family in his car and on foot on this date. According to an April 2, 2007, New Castle County Police Department news release, Gillen was committed to the Howard Young Prison after failing to post $54,100 secured bail.

On this date in 2010 in Mount Sinai, New York, William Frank Kelly, 73, of Port Jefferson, New York, poured two quarts of motor oil at the rear entrance of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The crime was caught on video surveillance. Admitting to police on April 1, 2010 what he did at the North Country Road church, William F. Kelly, who told police he was doing God's work, was arrested and charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief as a hate crime. Kelly pleaded guilty to one count of felony criminal mischief as a hate crime in Suffolk County Criminal Court, and he is to be sentenced on August 24, 2010.

On this date in 2010 just south of Ganges Township, Michigan (Allegan County), it was discovered that someone spray-painted a swaskita and the phrase "Fags Dont Belong" on a wooden fence along 118th Avenue west of 66th Street at the Campit Outdoor Resort, an adult, members-only campground just south of Saugatuck, Michigan. It is not uncommon for residents of nearly all white communities to engage in bias-motivated crimes or to be charged with hate crimes, and as of the 2000 U.S. Census Ganges Township was 93.38% White, and only 0.48% African American, 0.75% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 4.12% from other races, and 1.07% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race constituted 11.93% of the population in Ganges Township in 2000.

In Sandy, Utah, on this date in 2011, three unnamed Alta High School students were issued Unlawful Acts in School (class B misdemeanor) citations for their alleged involvement in having one student wear a KKK-styled pillowcase over his head at a school rally on March 18, 2011. That student also allegedly made pro-Neo-Nazi statements at the rally. Additionally, two of the students cited also allegedly sent text pictures of burning crosses on their mobile phones. None of the students were charged with a hate crime. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Sandy, Utah, was 93.52% White, 2.17% Asian, 4.38% Hispanic/Latino of any race, and only 0.50% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.31% Pacific Islander, 1.50% from other races, and 1.65% from two or more races. It is not uncommon for residents of nearly all-white towns to be charged with hate crimes (regardless of the bias motivation for the hate crime) or to be involved in bias-motivated incidents. The Canyons School District sent a letter addressed to "Parents and Students Within the Alta Feeder System" condemning hatred and racism; and, the letter also said a school district investigation uncovered evidence of other serious incidents at Alta High School on March 18, 2011.