In Oceanside, New York on this date in 2007 police arrested Nicholas Howley, 18, a white man from Oceanside, New York, and charged him with third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime for allegedly punching and kicking and using racial slurs toward Aloysius Staton Jr., 24, a black man from Uniondale, at the McDonald's at 3135 Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside on June 1, 2007. The incident, that involved up to seven white men and two black men (Mr. Stanton and Oswaldo Rivero, 17, of Oceanside), was caught on tape, and on September 22, 2007, Stanton was charged with assault for his role in the incident, but it was not until The 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care criticized Nassau police and District Attorney Kathleen Rice for not arresting any of the white men allegedly involved in the melee that Howley was arrested and charged with a hate crime. Howley pleaded Not Guilty in on October 1, 2007, in First District Court in Hempstead. The police have also said that arrests will be made against those who also attacked Mr. Rivero. Brian Murphy, 18, of Oceanside, was arrested on October 2, 2007, and charged with second-degree assault and possession of a dangerous weapon, for his alleged role in the incident.

On this date in 2007 in Miami, Florida, a Haitian church, the Jesus Miracle Center Full Gospel Tabernacle church at 9711 Northwest 7th Avenue, was the target of a hate crime. Perpetrators broke into the church in the early morning hours, spray-painted racial slurs inside the church, and then set it on fire. The church was destroyed by the fire, and its congregation subsequently had worship services at the church's youth center.

On this date in 2009 in Trends In Hate's third most hateful place to live in the United States in 2008, Brooklyn, New York, someone littered hundreds of cards that read "KILL JEWS" along Third Avenue in the Bay Ridge area. Earlier in September, 2009, the Brooklyn sections of Boerum Hill, Clinton Hill, and Bay Ridge were also littered with similar anti-Semitic cards.

In Minden, Louisiana, on this date in 2009, a white man, Daniel Earl Danforth, 30, of Minden was arrested by federal agents and charged with four federal hate-crime related offenses for burning a cross at the home of an interracial family between October 23 and October 24, 2008, in Athens, Louisiana. On October 26, 2008, Danforth telephoned a relative who was living with the victims and directed her to the location of the burned cross. Following the return of a September 25, 2009 indictment, at the time of his arrest Daniel Danforth was charged with one count each of interfering with the housing rights of another person, conspiring to interfere with another person’s civil rights, using fire during the commission of a felony, and obstructing justice by destroying evidence. On January 21, 2010, Daniel Danforth, 31, was convicted by a jury in Shreveport, Louisiana, of a civil rights conspiracy, use of fire in the commission of a federal felony, and obstruction of justice for agreeing with his two cousins to build, erect, and burn a cross near the homes of a cousin and her African-American boyfriend (whom she later married). Danforth, who could have received up to 10 years in prison for each of the civil rights counts, 10 additional years for the use of fire charge, and 20 years for the obstruction of justice count, was instead sentenced to just four years in prison and three years of supervised release in a Shreveport, Louisiana federal courtroom on May 27, 2010. Daniel E. Danforth's cousin, Joshua James Moro, 23, was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 28, 2010, and arrested on May 12, 2010, for his role in the cross-burning. Moro agreed to help Danforth build, erect and burn the cross. Then on July 28, 2010, Joshua J. Moro, along with Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and another white person, Sonya Marie Hart, 31, were indicted by a federal grand jury for making false statements to FBI agents. Joshua Moro and Sonya Hart also were each charged with one count of perjury before the grand jury. They faced up to five years in prison for each of the false statements and perjury charges. On January 21, 2011, Joshua James Moro, pled guilty to conspiring to burn a cross, and on January 26, 2011, Jeremy Matthew Moro pled guilty to the same charge. On January 31, 2011, Sonya Marie Hart, 31, pleaded guilt to misprision of a felony because she withheld information from the FBI regarding the defendants’ attempt to cover up the cross burning. On February 16, 2011, U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter accepted the guilty pleas of Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and of Joshua James Moro, 25. Sentencing for Joshua Moro, Joshua and Jeremy Moro each faced a maximum punishment of 10 years for conspiring to interfere with another person’s civil rights. Sonya Hart faced a maximum punishment of three years for affirmatively withholding information from the FBI regarding the defendants’ attempt to cover up the cross burning. On April 28, 2011, Jeremy M. Moro, 33, Joshua J. Moro, 23, and Sonya Hart, 31, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter. Jeremy and Joshua Moro were each sentenced to one year and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Sonya M. Hart was sentenced to three years of supervised probation.

On this date in 2009 in Mountain View, California (Santa Clara County), a Latino man, Humberto Pineda, 26, was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, a hate crime, battery, driving while under the influence, driving on a suspended driver's license, and probation violation for allegedly yelling a racial slur at an African-American couple in the 1900 block of California Street, throwing a beer container at the couple, and then punching the 20-year-old Sunnyvale, California, male victim in the face. Following his arrest, Pineda was held at the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.

At the University of Minnesota-Crookston on this date in 2010 it was discovered that someone hung a statue of a person of color from the roof of the university's Student Center in what police investigated as a possible hate crime. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Crookston, Minnesota's racial makeup was 90.5% White, and only 0.50% African American, and it is not uncommon for hate crimes to be committed by persons from a nearly all-white community (regardless of the bias motivation).