Hate Incidents in California for 2009

Carmichael, CA
"A swastika, other Nazi symbols and the words `Kristallnacht still lives` were spray- painted on a synagogue. "
Reported: 2009-10-09

Fullerton, CA
"Darrel James Allen, a 23-year-old black man, was charged with a hate crime battery causing injury, robbery, assault and violation of civil rights for yelling racial slurs and punching a Latino man unconscious."
Reported: 2009-08-09

San Francisco , CA
"John Gimbel, 59, pleaded not guilty to federal charges associated with sending racist, threatening E-mails to President Barack Obama and other officials."
Reported:2009-06-09

Costa Mesa, CA
"Ronald Allen Bramlett, a 65-year-old white man, was charged with felony aggravated assault, criminal threats and an enhancement of an alleged hate crime for allegedly calling a black teenager racial slurs and threatening him with a knife."
Reported:2009-12-29

Huntington Beach, CA
Three white supremacists who stabbed a Latino man in an unprovoked attack pleaded guilty to multiple felonies and were sentenced to prison terms.
Reported:2009-12-20

Sacramento, CA
Religious wall hangings and a bookshelf that held the Quran were vandalized at West Sacramento Islamic Community Center.
Reported:2009-12-01

San Diego, CA
Three teenage boys were charged with vandalism and arson for allegedly torching two city vehicles and part of an outbuilding and scrawling racist graffiti at a municipal maintenance yard in August.
Reported: 2009-11-18

Carmichael, CA
"A swastika, other Nazi symbols and the words `Kristallnacht still lives` were spray- painted on a synagogue. "
Reported: 2009-11-10

Sutter Creek, CA
The grandson of Holocaust survivors found a swastika carved into his school desk.
Reported: 2009-11-05

North Hollywood, CA
Two Jewish men were shot as they were entering a synagogue. Police were investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Reported: 2009-10-29

La Mesa , CA
"Walter Bagdasarian, 48, was sentenced to two months in a halfway house for writing two racially charged Internet threats to then-presidential candidate Barack Obama."
Reported:2009-10-26

Riverside, CA
Members of the National Socialist Movement held an anti-immigration protest.
Reported:2009-10-24

Newport Beach, CA
"Izad Chavoshan, 30, was charged with arson and attempted arson as a hate crime for allegedly trying to set fire to his former church."
Reported:2009-10-21

Orinda , CA
Racist graffiti was written in a high school restroom.
Reported:2009-10-20

San Bernardino, CA
"Christopher Fulmer, a 21-year-old alleged white supremacist, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the fatal hate-motivated shooting of a Latino man and the wounding of another man in December 2007. "
Reported:2009-10-16

Whittier, CA
"Three swastikas were spray-painted on a synagogue and other graffiti was painted on a tree, a curb and a tarp on a nearby fence. "
Reported:2009-10-14

Martinez, CA
At a skate park, a group of white teens shouted "white power" and waved a Confederate flag at a mixed-race 10-year-old and his mother.
Reported:2009-10-06

San Francisco , CA
"John Gimbel, 59, pleaded not guilty to federal charges associated with sending racist, threatening E-mails to President Barack Obama and other officials."
Reported:2009-10-06

Mountain View, CA
A Hispanic man was arrested on suspicion of a hate crime and assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly yelling a racial slur at an African-American couple, punching a man and throwing a beer can at him.
Reported:2009-09-30

San Bernardino, CA
Skinhead convicted of hate crime manslaughter.
Reported:2009-09-17

Los Angeles, CA
Twenty more members of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens street gang have been arrested in an investigation that charges them with waging a racist campaign to eliminate black people.
Reported:2009-07-09

Ladera Ranch, CA
A Hispanic woman was stabbed and robbed by two men. They told her "they didn't like Mexicans."
Reported:2009-07-04

Lucerne Valley, CA
Vandals sprayed-painted swastikas and obscene images on cemetery headstones.
Reported:2009-06-19

Salinas, CA
Swastikas and ethnic slurs were found on a synagogue's property.
Reported:2009-06-15

Lodi, CA
Three dead baby goats were found mounted on the lawn of a church.
Reported:2009-06-07

San Diego, CA
The executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride was attacked.
Reported:2009-06-06

Irvine, CA
Vandals spray-painted a threat on an office door because of occupant's public support of same sex marriage.
Reported:2009-06-06

Santa Cruz, CA
A man was arrested after allegedly brandishing a knife and threatening to kill a stranger because of his sexual orientation.
Reported:2009-06-04

Cypress, CA
A mosque was vandalized with graffiti including expletives and threats, shortly after President Barack Obama's address in Egypt.
Reported:2009-06-03

Pasadena, CA
Two admitted gang members were found guilty in a racially motivated assault on a group of Hispanic students.
Reported:2009-05-22

Los Angeles, CA
About 150 members and associates of a predominantly Latino street gang were indicted in the shootings of black victims and other crimes.
Reported:2009-05-21

Riverside, CA
A gang member who shot a boy in a racially-motivated attack was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Reported:2009-05-21

Merced, CA
A woman discovered a four-foot swastika burned into her front yard.
Reported:2009-05-21

San Luis Obispo, CA
A man was arrested in connection with arson and vandalism of a church known for promoting tolerance of people of all sexual orientations.
Reported:2009-05-15

Duarte, CA
Vandals broke into a house and spray painted racist slurs and gang symbols in every room.
Reported:2009-05-09

Redding, CA
Three teenage boys were arrested in the fatal beating of a homeless man.
Reported:2009-04-23

Victorville, CA
Eight members of a skinhead gang have pleaded not guilty to drug, weapon and assault charges.
Reported:2009-04-22

Pasadena, CA
Two men were arrested in connection with the murder of an African-American man. One of the men was an avowed skinhead.
Reported:2009-04-22

A yearlong investigation of a hate gang calling itself the Inland Empire Skinheads resulted in the arrests of seven people.
Reported:2009-04-20

Santa Monica, CA
Officials of St. Monica Catholic Church discovered a statue of the Virgin Mary beheaded shortly before Easter services commenced.
Reported:2009-04-12

Santa Barbara, CA
On the University of California's Santa Barbara Campus, two Asian students were injured in a racially motivated assault.
Reported:2009-04-10

Los Alamitos, CA
Racial epithets, symbols and the initials of a white supremacist group were spray-painted on a minivan.
Reported:2009-04-08

Tulare, CA
A red swastika was painted on the front of St. Aloysius Catholic Church.
Reported:2009-04-06

Sprin Valley Lake, CA
Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were spray painted on a car.
Reported:2009-04-06

Costa Mesa, CA
Two white men yelled racial epithets at a Latino man before attacking him.
Reported:2009-04-05

Fullerton, CA
Swastikas were painted on a local high school and nearby houses.
Reported:2009-04-01

Riverside , CA
Anti-Semitic graffiti written in German and swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish community center.
Reported:2009-03-26

Modesto, CA
Police are investigating the recent vandalism of a synagogue as a hate crime.
Reported:2009-03-18

San Jose , CA
A 20-foot wide swastika was burned into a high school's front lawn with road salt.
Reported:2009-03-17

Torrance, CA
A man who used a campaign sign opposing same-sex marriage to attack a gay man was ordered to take anger management courses.
Reported:2009-03-16

East Palo Alto, CA
"Frisco Tuipulotu, Caroline Evaimalo and Richard Juarez, all 23, and Tuuta Tuipulotu, 20, were charged with suspicion of committing a hate crime for allegedly punching and kicking four people of Indian descent while making racially charged comments."
Reported:2009-02-21

Thousand Oaks, CA
Someone painted a swastika on the locker of a Jewish student.
Reported:2009-02-17

Lassen County, CA
Deputies arrested two juvenile boys who are being held without bail on charges of burglary, vandalism and a hate crime at the Honey Lake Valley Assembly of God Church.
Reported:2009-02-14

Los Angeles, CA
"A group of about 20 Hispanic youths allegedly attacked a black minister and his sons, chasing them into their church and pelting them with rocks."
Reported:2009-02-13

Los Angeles, CA
Vandals slashed tires and sprayed the word "Nazi" on two cars and a house. The attack occurred in the same neighborhood where vandals scrawled similar hate messages on cars and houses that displayed signs supporting President Barack Obama.
Reported:2009-02-12

Palo Alto, CA
"Miguel Luis Carlson, 31, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and a hate crime for allegedly attacking and choking a man in a convenience store while using a racial slur and telling the man to `go back to his country.`"
Reported:2009-02-07

Torrance, CA
The word `Nazi` was spray-painted on two cars and the residence of a white man and his Chinese wife. The tires of two of their vehicles were also slashed.
Reported:2009-02-05

San Fernando Valley, CA
"Samuel Apatiga and George Navarro, both 21, and Erik Castaneda, 29, were each charged with three counts of making criminal threats and two counts of assault with a firearm after they allegedly threatened a barbershop owner and his patrons, all of whom are black. The three men, along with Andy Moran, 18, were also accused of threatening a black man and his girlfriend. Moran was charged with two counts each of making criminal threats and assault with a firearm in connection with the incident. The charges include hate crime allegations. "
Reported:2009-01-30

San Jose, CA
Police say a 53-year-old San Jose man was assaulted because he was having a conversation on his cell phone in Spanish. The suspect allegedly punched the man a couple of times before taking off on foot.
Reported:2009-01-27

Richmond, CA
Seven men were arrested on suspicion of beating a black man, fracturing bones in his face and yelling racial epithets during the attack.
Reported:2009-01-24

Stockton, CA
Firefighters received a report of a car on fire near 74th Ave. Investigators said both fires appear to be work of arson. One of the vehicles was spray painted with a racial slur.
Reported:2009-01-23

Malibu, CA
Unknown suspects urinated on the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue's property, shattered a glass door, littered the property with broken beer bottles and used shaving cream to draw swastikas, sexual symbols and crosses on the center's walls, doors and windows.
Reported:2009-01-21

San Jacinto Valley, CA
Five recent attacks by white supremacists on blacks and Latinos in the San Jacinto Valley are part of a violent backlash to the election of Barack Obama as the first black president in U.S. history, police said.
Reported:2009-01-18

Recent Hate Incidents in California

Canoga Park, CA
Three Latino street gang members have been charged with the racially motivated homicide of a black father of two who was shot to death Dec. 22 outside a bowling alley where he worked.
Reported:2009-01-18

Oroville , CA
"Alleged white supremacist Ricky Allen Snow, 31, was sentenced to 31 years to life in prison for threatening to kill two Oroville residents while breaking into their home in 2007. Snow was convicted of burglary, vandalism and making terrorist threats in April 2008."
Reported:2009-01-08

Dana Point, CA
About 20 members of the Minuteman Project squared off with a small group of anti-Minutemen protesters at a day laborer pick-up site.
Reported:2009-01-04

Mountain View, CA
Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga, the city's first Asian-American female mayor, received e-mail through her public City Hall address. "I can't believe this city elected a stupid Asian-American like you."
Reported:2009-01-04

San Francisco, CA
"Swastikas and graffiti about Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, was scrawled on a Catholic church."
Reported:2009-01-04

Hemet, CA
Reputed white supremacist gang members Crystal Lee McCann, 22, Derek Shane O'Brien, 22 and Darrin Peter Thibault, 24, were arrested in connection with the November beating of a 19-year-old Latino that inflicted permanent brain damage.
Reported:2009-01-02

Vallejo, CA
Fredrick Martin, 31, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and committing a hate crime after gunning his car toward a group of immigrant day laborers on the side of a road.
Reported:2009-01-02

Camarillo, CA
For the third time in a year, the Gan Camarillo Preschool was defaced with swastikas and "White Power" graffiti.
Reported:2009-01-01

Camarillo, CA
Swastikas and the words 'white power' were painted on the sidewalk in front of a Jewish preschool.
Reported:2008-12-31

Irvine, CA
"Anti-Jewish, pro-Hamas signs were posted on a rear door of a synagogue and on a metal utility box and a signal box near the building."
Reported:2008-12-30

Richmond, CA
"Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and two teens were arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman while taunting her for being a lesbian."
Reported:2008-12-13

Richmond, CA
In a case being investigated as a hate crime, two men and two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape in December of a 28-year-old lesbian, Richmond police said Thursday.
Reported:2008-12-13

Loleta, CA
A Latino man allegedly was attacked by an American Indian man wielding a golf club and making racial slurs.
Reported:2008-12-07

Mountain View, CA
On Dec. 5, three white teens, ages 14 and 15, were arrested by police and charged with hate crimes, making criminal threats, brandishing a replica firearm and conspiracy to commit a felony. According to police, four 11-year-old Latino students were walking home from school. As they walked, the teens shouted racial comments from the open window of a house and threatened to kill the students. Then the teens chased the students down the street.
Reported:2008-12-05