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HATE INCIDENTS IN THE U.S. For the Record AU GU ST —DEC E MB ER 2 015 incidents of apparent hate crimes and hate group activities listed here are drawn primarily from media sources. These incidents include only a fraction of the almost 260,000 reported and unreported hate crimes that a 2012 Bureau of Justice Statistics report estimated occur annually. This listing carries a selection of incidents between August and December of 2015. Any additional listings can be found on the Intelligence Project’s website. SPLCENTER.ORG/GET-INFORMED/HATE-INCIDENTS ALABAMA Cullman County · Dec. 5, 2015 Klan fliers were distributed across the county in an attempt to recruit members to work against the spread of Islam. ARKANSAS Jonesboro · Dec. 12, 2015 Fliers depicting swastikas and other Nazi imagery were placed in mailboxes. They also denounced the mayor and a member of the Jonesboro police force. CALIFORNIA Buena Park · Dec. 14, 2015 A Sikh temple was vandalized. San Bernardino · Dec. 2, 2015 Two Islamic extremists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people and injured 21 afte r opening fire at the Inland Regional Center during a Christmas party for the health department. Tracy · Dec. 29, 2015 A Molotov cocktail involving a wine bottle containing a rag and accelerant was thrown at a mosque. COLORADO Colorado Springs · Nov. 27, 2015 Robert Lewis Dear, 57, opened fire in a Planned Parenthood building, killing three people. INDIANA Bloomington · Oct. 19, 2015 Ticeten Bickford, 19, was arrested for assaulting a Muslim woman. Bickford attacked the 47-yearold woman and attempted to pull off her headscarf, restricting her breathing. Henry County · Oct. 1, 2015 Ku Klux Klan fliers in gravelfilled plastic bags were distributed in several driveways. FLORIDA Jacksonville · Nov. 23, 2015 Ku Klux Klan fliers with antiLGBT and anti-immigrant messages were distributed. Palm Beach · Dec. 4, 2015 Joshua Warren Killets, 27, was 68 splc intelligence report found by authorities to have intentionally selected the Islamic Center of Palm Beach for an attack. the glass of a door at the Omaha Islamic Center. GEORGIA Lyndhurst · Oct. 22, 2015 NEW JERSEY Ku Klux Klan recruitment fliers were distributed in driveways. Fliers advising recipients to join the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in neighborhoods. IDAHO NEW YORK The words “Hunt Camp” were spray-painted on plywood covering the windows of the Twin Falls Islamic Center. The term is thought to refer to Japanese internment camps created during WWII. Eric Feight, 57, pleaded guilty for his role in a 2014 plot to use an ‘X-ray machine’ to kill Muslims. He was sentenced to eight years. Villa Rica · Nov. 24, 2015 Twin Falls · Dec. 5, 2015 ILLINOIS Willowbrook · Dec. 16, 2015 A 17-year-old pleaded guilty to punching 53-year-old Inderjit Mukker, whom the teenager believed was Muslim. KENTUCKY Lexington · Dec. 1, 2015 The Islamic Center of Lexington received a phone threat. MINNESOTA Minneapolis · Nov. 24, 2015 Four men espousing white supremacist ideology were arrested for shooting five members of a Black Lives Matter protest. MISSOURI Blue Springs · Nov. 12, 2015 Connor B. Stottlemyre, 19, a Northwest Missouri State University freshman, was charged with two counts of making a terrorist threat. He threatened on social media to shoot black students. St. Louis · Nov. 12, 2015 Tyler Bradenberg, 19, was charged with a felony count of making terrorist threats aimed specifically toward African Americans at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. NEBRASKA Omaha · Oct. 29, 2015 A security camera recorded an image of a masked man unsuccessfully trying to break Albany · Dec. 17, 2015 Brooklyn · Nov. 20, 2015 A postal worker spit on two Muslim women walking with a child. New York · Dec. 6, 2015 charged with using racial slurs, assaulting a man with a stick and pulling a gun on him. Lancaster · Nov. 30, 2015 A black Franklin & Marshall College student received racist phone messages and his apartment was ransacked. The incidents are being investigated as potential hate crimes. Pittsburgh · Nov. 30, 2015 A man shot a 38-year-old taxi driver from Morocco in the upper back because he assumed the man was involved with the terrorist group Islamic State. RHODE ISLAND Providence · Oct. 15, 2015 A teen knocked over and smashed a menorah in a park near Gracie Mansion on the first night of Hanukkah. Shortly after the menorah was put back up, the teen returned to the park and destroyed it again. Anti-Semitic and racist fliers, along with 15 small packets of an unknown substance, were left in a neighborhood. Racist leaflets were placed on cars parked at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital. TEXAS Patchogue · Dec. 26, 2015 NORTH CAROLINA Granite Quarry · Dec. 23, 2015 The East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire placed fliers in multiple locations. Marshall County · Dec. 18, 2015 The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan distributed fliers tucked into small plastic bags. OHIO Eaton · Dec. 1, 2015 Ku Klux Klan fliers were distributed at homes. OREGON Portland · Nov. 20 2015 A student from Rwanda at Lewis & Clark College was assaulted on campus by three white men yelling racial slurs. He was hit, held down and forced to swallow an unknown liquid. PENNSYLVANIA Allentown · Oct. 22, 2015 Samuel Negron Jr., 46, was SOUTH CAROLINA Walterboro · Oct. 24, 2015 Ku Klux Klan fliers were left in driveways and mailboxes. Plano · Dec. 7, 2015 A Muslim family had large rocks thrown into their windows twice, shortly after moving into a new neighborhood. UTAH Salt Lake City · Dec. 14, 2015 Two businesses owned by Middle Easterners were spraypainted with slurs. VERMONT Burlington · Oct. 31, 2015 Ku Klux Klan posters were placed on doors. Burlington · Oct. 31, 2015 Two men, Cameron Cappella, 18, and Derrik Demone, 18, were charged with vandalizing a mosque. WASHINGTON Bellingham · Nov. 30, 2015 A 19-year-old student at Western Washington University was arrested and jailed on suspicion of felony malicious harassment involving racist threats. ▲