On this date in 2007, in Concord, New Hampshire, Governor John Lynch signed into law a bill giving same-sex couples in that state the right to enter into civil unions, a move that over time will likely decrease intolerance, discrimination, and hatred toward lesbians and gay men.

In Cape Girardeau, Missouri, on this date in 2009, Nicholas John Proffitt, 31, of Cape Girardeau threw rocks at the front door of the Islamic Center on West End Blvd. causing damage to it, and he also damaged the windshield of a luxury car in the mosque's parking lot. Nicholas J. Proffitt was charged with one count each of first- and second-degree hate crime property damage; if convicted as charged, he could have received up to seven years in prison. Nicholas Proffitt was also charged with driving while intoxicated, speeding and failure to wear a seatbelt for offenses he allegedly committed four hours after committing his hate crime. No stranger to law enforcement, in November, 2008, Nicholas Proffitt, was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. On July 7, 2009, in the New Madrid County Court Proffitt pleaded guilty to first-degree Class-C felony of property damage as a hate crime, and second-degree Class-D felony of property damage as a hate crime. Proffitt also pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. Proffitt (whose last name has sometimes been misspelled as Proffit by some news sources) was sentenced on September 8, 2009, to three years in prison for his hate crimes; he also was sentenced to six months for driving while intoxicated.

Shortly after midnight on this date in 2010 in Denver, Colorado, two men from Saudi Arabia living in Continental, Colorado, Fahad Alqusumi, 21, and Majed Alnufaie, 29, allegedly hurled racial slurs at an Iraqi employee at the Baghdad Café located at 2655 South Broadway and then allegedly pushed and beat him. The 20-year-old victim, Zaid Abood, said the slurs and assault occurred after he disclosed he is Iraqi when the alleged perpetrators approached him and asked him where he was from. Both Alqusumi and Alnufaie were charged with a hate crime.

In Worcester, Massachusetts on this date in 2011, Joseph Brignola, 33, of Worcester, allegedly set fire to a mosque, the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the arson as a possible hate crime. Brignola was arraigned in Central District Court on June 1, 2011, on charges of burning a building and injury to a church or synagogue, but he was not charged with a hate crime.