Trump Supporters Are More Dangerous Than You Knew

 Violence in the name of Trump

Since Trump embarked on his campaign for the US presidency in June 2015, dozens of attacks or threats involving his supporters have been reported. Here, the Guardian has compiled details of 52 incidents reported since 2015 involving Trump supporters.

This list includes people who: Explicitly declared support for Donald Trump, or used his slogans, during or in connection with acts or threats of violence.

• Cited Trump or his rhetoric in subsequently explaining acts or threats of violence.
• Committed or threatened violence against opponents of Trump at political events, or while wearing Trump-branded attire signifying their support for the president.
• Publicly declared an allegiance to Trump before committing or 
  threatening violence against members of political or racial groups that Trump has denounced
  Threats or acts of violence committed by Trump supporters (2015-2019)
  
  
  Dozens of supporters of Donald Trump have carried out or threatened acts of violence. Here are some from (2015 - 2019)

• Eric Lin

  DateAugust 2019

  LocationMiami, Florida

  

  Lin allegedly bombarded a Hispanic woman in Florida with threatening racist and pro-Nazi messages on Facebook, and plotted to pay someone to kidnap and assault her. In one message, Lin allegedly wrote: “I Thank God everyday President Donald John Trump is President and that he will launch a Racial War and Crusade”, adding that non-white people would be sent to concentration camps or dealt with by the US military. Lin, 35, was arrested in Seattle in August 2019 and charged with the interstate transmission of a threatening communication.

• Dallas Frazier

  DateAugust 2019

  LocationCincinnati, Ohio

  

  Source: Hamilton County Sheriff's Office

  Frazier, 29, got out of his truck and repeatedly punched a 61-year-old anti-Trump protester in the head outside a Trump rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, in August 2019. Cellphone video footage of the attack was posted online. Frazier, of Georgetown, Kentucky, was arrested and charged with assault.

• Unidentified man

  DateJune 2019

  LocationBoston, Massachusetts

  

  In June 2019 in Boston, the man allegedly placed Scott Eisen, a photojournalist, in a choke-hold and punched Eisen in the face while shouting: “Fake news! Trump 2020!” Eisen said the attack happened as he loaded equipment into a car after covering reaction to the elimination of the Boston Bruins from the Stanley Cup finals. Eisen suffered minor injuries to his face.

• John Kless

  DateApril 2019

  LocationTamarac, Florida

  

  In April 2019, Kless threatened to kill several Democrats during telephone calls to congressional offices. He attacked congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for presuming to “tell our president, Donald Trump, what to say”. Kless, 49, told congressman Eric Swallwell of California: “You’re gonna die.” He said he’d like to throw congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota “right off the Empire State Building”. Kless, of Tamarac, Florida, was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of transmitting threats through interstate communications. He pleaded guilty to one count and was due to be sentenced in August 2019.

• Matthew Haviland

  DateMarch 2019

  LocationNorth Kingstown, Rhode Island

  

  In March 2019, Haviland allegedly threatened to kill a professor who advocated for abortion rights. Prosecutors said that in a series of emails, he told the professor: “You will have your face ripped off and eaten by me, personally. I will enjoy raping your body after you’re dead.” Haviland, 29, told the professor all Democrats “must be slaughtered” and complained Trump was being mistreated. A friend told investigators Haviland was angry at “the way the news media portrays President Trump”. Haviland, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, also sent threatening messages to others at the professor’s university and left threatening messages at an abortion clinic. He was charged with cyberstalking and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.

• Patrick Carlineo

  DateMarch 2019

  LocationUpstate New York

  

  Carlineo threatened to kill congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. He called Omar’s office in Washington in March 2019 and asked an aide: “Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull.” The FBI said Carlineo, 55, declared in an interview “that he was a patriot, that he loves the president, and that he hates radical Muslims in our government”. Carlineo, of upstate New York, had posted violent and racist material about Democrats to his Facebook page for several years before his arrest. He was charged with threatening to kill a US official. He denied the charge.

• Unidentified man

  DateFebruary 2019

  LocationEl Paso, Texas

  

  The man attacked a BBC cameraman, Ron Skeans, during a Trump rally in El Paso, Texas, in February 2019. Skeans said he received a “very hard shove”. His colleague, Gary O’Donoghue, said it was “an incredibly violent attack”. Trump had complained of being mistreated by the “fake news” in his remarks to the crowd before the attack. Wearing a red Make America Great Again cap, the man was pulled away from Skeans by a fellow Trump supporter. He was not identified.

• Randal Thom

  DateJanuary 2019

  LocationStorm Lake, Iowa

  

  Source: Anoka County Sheriff's Office

  Thom was arrested for attempting to assault supporters of Elizabeth Warren at a campaign event for the Massachusetts senator in Storm Lake, Iowa, in January 2019. He hit a Warren supporter with a selfie stick, according to one report, and yelled “Trump 2020!” before being placed in a police car. Thom, 58, is part of a group of diehard supporters, calling itself “Trump’s Front Row Joes”, that has travelled to dozens of the president’s rallies. He also has a 27-year criminal record spanning 72 convictions. He pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct. He was sentenced to pay a fine, which according to court records he then failed to pay. He has continued attending Trump campaign rallies.

• Michael Brogan

  DateDecember 2018

  LocationBrooklyn, New York

  

  In December 2018, Brogan threatened to kill a US senator for criticizing Trump and because of her position on abortion rights, according to police. The senator was not identified. Brogan, 51, allegedly left a voicemail at the senator’s Washington office in which he said: “I’m going to put a bullet in ya”. He complained about the senator’s “constant lambasting of President Trump”. He was arrested for threatening a US official and released on bail. He has not been formally charged and is engaged in plea negotiations, according to court records. Brogan, of Brooklyn, New York, later told a reporter: “I wish in retrospect I didn’t do it, but I don’t think it’s that big.”

• James Patrick

  DateOctober 2018

  LocationWinter Haven, Florida

  

  Patrick, of Winter Haven, Florida, was arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Democrats in Facebook posts that were reported to police in October 2018. He was was charged with making written threats to kill. Then 53, Patrick allegedly said he would kill elected Democrats and members of their families in Washington. He warned he would act if Brett Kavanaugh was not confirmed to the supreme court. “It is all I think about night and day,” he wrote. In court, Patrick’s attorney played down the remarks as the "rantings of a man who disagrees with the Democratic liberal populous" and likened them to those made by “a certain high-ranking official” – Trump. In one Facebook post, Patrick described himself as a “Trump Militant Conservative” and called for the enslavement of “not just blacks but ALL liberals”. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of threatening to kill or injure.

• Cesar Sayoc

  DateOctober 2018

  LocationPlantation, Florida: 

  

  Source: Broward County Sheriff's Office/AP

  In October 2018, Sayoc mailed 16 homemade pipe bombs to prominent critics of Trump across the country and to CNN, the cable news station most frequently derided by the president. None of the devices detonated and no one was injured. Attorneys for Sayoc said in a sentencing memo that he “found light in Donald J Trump” and while watching Fox News religiously “came to believe that prominent Democrats were actively working to hurt him, other Trump supporters and the country as a whole”. They noted Trump “specifically blamed many of the individuals whom Mr Sayoc ultimately targeted”. Sayoc, 57, was captured by police in Plantation, Florida, where he was living in a van plastered with pro-Trump stickers. He pleaded guilty to 65 felony charges, including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. His attorney told the court: “The president’s rhetoric contributed to Mr Sayoc’s behavior.”

• Scott Haven

  DateSeptember 2018

  LocationKaysville, Utah: Possible Location For This Dangerous MAGAt

  

  Source: Weber County Sheriff's Office

  Haven allegedly made dozens of abusive or threatening calls to Democrats in Congress. Prosecutors said that in a September 2018 call to a senator’s office, Haven ranted about “Democrats trying to destroy Trump’s presidency” and told an aide to the senator: “Tell the son of a bitch we are coming to hang the fucker!” Authorities said Haven told the FBI he made the calls “during periods of frustration with the way Democrats were treating President Trump”. Haven, of Kaysville, Utah, was charged with making an interstate transmission of threats to injure. He pleaded not guilty. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 if convicted.

• Carl Pacheco

  DateAugust 2018

  LocationHouston, Texas: Probable Location and Data For  Carl

  

  Pacheco allegedly brandished a pocket knife and stabbed atthe car window of a woman with whom he was arguing about Donald Trump. The woman was said to have mocked Pacheco’s Trump shirt and red Make America Great Again baseball cap in August 2018. According to police, the two exchanged insults as the woman left a live show in Houston, Texas, by Kathy Griffin, the comedian and critic of Trump. to Pacheco's attorney said he was intending to "have political conversations with people". Pacheco, 34, was indicted on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He was bailed pending trial and denies wrongdoing.

• Max Hare, John Kinsman, David Kuriakose

  DateAugust 2018

  LocationNew York, New York

  

  Hare, Kinsman and Kuriakose were among members of the far-right “Proud Boys” group who allegedly attacked an anti-fascist protester on a Manhattan street in October 2018. The group was recorded kicking the man after an event where their founder, Gavin McInnes, gave a speech. Hare, Kinsman and Kuriakose were all wearing red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps. Hare, 26, and Kinsman, 39, were charged with several counts including felony attempted gang assault. Kuriakose, 35, was charged with misdemeanor attempted assault and rioting. Hare and Kinsman were convicted in August 2019. Kuriakose, who denies wrongdoing, is awaiting trial.

• Robert Chain

  DateAugust 2018

  LocationBoston, Massachusetts

  

  Chain threatened to kill employees of the Boston Globe newspaper during phone calls in which he repeated Trump’s claims that journalists are the “enemy of the people” and “fake news”. He made 14 threatening calls to the Globe beginning in August 2018, after the newspaper announced it was coordinating the publication of editorials by dozens of US outlets condemning Trump’s attacks against the media. Chain, 68, was found to have purchased a new rifle three months earlier. In one call, he told a Globe staffer: “I’m going to shoot you in the fucking head later today.” He vowed to continue the threats “as long as you keep attacking the president”. He pleaded guilty to making threatening communications.

• Dr Bill Deagle

  DateJune 2018

  Location-

  

  Deagle, a conspiracy theorist, threatened to kill people who harassed fellow supporters of Donald Trump, following a series of incidents in which Trump advisers were heckled in public. On his radio program in June 2018, Deagle said people involved in future incidents were “not going to have a bad day, they’re going to die,” adding: “They’re going to get death.” Deagle said if he had been present when Florida attorney general Pam Bondi was confronted by protesters, he would have “blown them away and put them in a box”

• Nicholas Bukoski

  DateMarch 2018

  LocationCrofton, Maryland: Possible Personal Data For MAGAt

  

  Source: Anne Arundel Co. PD

  In March 2018, Bukoski threatened to kill two senators, Kamala Harris of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The 19-year-old, from Crofton, Maryland, sent the threats in Instagram messages. He told investigators “he was frustrated with liberals and very supportive of the current president” and watched Fox News eight to 12 hours a day. Bukoski was charged with threatening to murder federal officials. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to six months in prison.

• Brandon Griesemer

  DateJanuary 2018

  LocationNovi, Michigan: Possible Data For Brandon

  

  Griesemer, a Trump supporter from Novi, Michigan, allegedly threatened to kill CNN employees in a series of 22 telephone calls to the station’s offices in Atlanta, Georgia, on 9 and 10 January 2018. Trump called CNN “Fake News” in a tweet on 7 January. Investigators said Griesemer told an operator: “Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down”. Griesemer, 19, was charged with threatening to kidnap or injure. He has pleaded not guilty.

• Anthony Lloyd

  DateOctober 2017

  LocationWashington, DC

  

  Lloyd threatened to kill congresswoman Maxine Waters of California. He called her Washington office in October 2017 and left a voicemail stating: “If you continue to make threats towards the president, you’re going to wind up dead, Maxine, ‘cause we’ll kill you.” Lloyd, then 45, told the FBI he was a “pro-president supporter” and that he intended to send Waters the message that “if you make a move on my president your ass is in trouble … it’s all over.” He pleaded guilty to threatening a US official and was sentenced to three years probation. Waters had urged for a prison sentence.

• Morris May

  DateSeptember 2017

  LocationAsbury Park, New Jersey: Probable Personal Data Morris May

  

  May pepper-sprayed the face of a demonstrator preparing for a “Stand Against Hate” rally in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in September 2017. He was wearing a shirt referencing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. The victim, Allison Kolarik, said May said: “I hate liberals. I hate you people.” May, then 22, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disturbing the peace. He received a suspended 90-day jail sentence and 100 hours of community service.

• Stephen Taubert

  Date2017

  LocationSyracuse, New York: Possible Data For Stephen

  

  Source: VA card

  Taubert threatened to kill Barack Obama and congresswoman Maxine Waters during telephone calls to congressional offices in 2017 and 2018. He said he intended to go to Washington DC and “hang” Obama. An air force veteran from Syracuse, New York, Taubert explained to a federal court that he was upset by “people knocking the president”, adding: “He’s a good person and he’s done a lot for this country and the veterans.” Taubert, 61, was convicted of threatening a former president and threatening a federal official. He was sentenced to 46 months in prison.

• Michael Hari

  DateAugust 2017

  LocationBloomington, Minnesota

  

  Source: Ford County Sheriff’s Office

  Hari and two co-conspirators allegedly bombed a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017. No one was injured. A person who knew Hari told the Intercept that Trump’s rhetoric had “flipped that switch” in Hari and persuaded him to act. The 47-year-old had submitted a $10bn proposal to build Trump’s planned border wall. A promotional video said it would enable Americans to “defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage, western culture and English language.” It concluded: “Make America Great Again”. Hari and two other men are charged with federal hate crimes, civil rights violations and crimes relating to explosives for allegedly bombing the mosque. Hari has pleaded not guilty; the other two pleaded guilty. Hari is due to stand trial later in 2019.

• Dennis Mothersbaugh

  DateAugust 2017

  LocationCharlottesville, Virginia Possible Location For White Trash Dennis

  

  Source: Jennings County Sheriff’s Department

  Mothersbaugh sucker-punched two demonstrators who were protesting against a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. After he was arrested, Mothersbaugh appeared in court wearing a “God, Guns & Trump” shirt. His attacks were recorded on video and widely shared on social media. One of his victims, Kendall Bills, later wrote that she was left crying for help with blood streaming down her face. The 37-year-old, from North Vernon, Indiana, pleaded guilty to assault and battery. He was sentenced to 360 days in prison with 120 suspended.

• Alex Ramos

  DateAugust 2017

  LocationCharlottesville, Virginia

  

  Ramos and five other men beat a black man at a parking garage during a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. Ramos punched and kicked the man while wearing his red Make America Great Again baseball cap. Their victim, DeAndre Harris, sustained a broken wrist and a head wound. The attack was captured on video and widely shared online. Ramos, 34, was convicted of malicious wounding. He was sentenced to six years in prison.

• Louis Travieso

  DateJuly 2017

  LocationWashington, DC Possible Personal Data for Louis

  

  Travieso allegedly attacked two men and a woman in Washington DC, after one of them made a comment about his red Make America Great Again baseball cap and said they had a problem with his politics. He allegedly straddled one of the men and punched him 20 times in the face. Police arrested Travieso, 32, and he was charged with assault. Travieso said he had been heckled and confronted by the group and acted in self-defence. He pleaded not guilty. Travieso was found not guilty in a non-jury trial.

• Amber Hensley

  DateJuly 2017

  LocationFargo, North Dakota: Possible Personal Data For Amber

  

  Hensley threatened to kill Muslims during a dispute over parking with three Muslim women at a Walmart in Fargo, North Dakota, in July 2017. One of the women said Hensley pointed to a Trump bumper sticker on her car while making her remarks. “We’re going to kill all of ya,” Hensley said. “We’re going to kill every single one of you (expletive) Muslims.” The comments were recorded on video by one of the women. Hensley, 42, was fired from her job and apologized for her remarks. She and the women were reconciled in a meeting arranged by police.

• Unidentified man

  DateMay 2017

  LocationHouston, Texas

  

  The man allegedly threatened to lynch congressman Al Green of Texas for trying to impeach Trump. In a voicemail left at Green’s office, the man said he would “lynch all you fucking niggers, you’ll be hanging from a tree.” Green said in May 2017 that law enforcement were looking into the call, along with similar messages he received.

• Kenneth Sjarpe

  DateMay 2017

  LocationBellevue, Washington: Possible Personal Data For Kenneth Sjarpe

  

  Source: King County Prosecutor's Office

  Sjarpe threatened to kill three men he assumed to be Muslims at a gas station in Bellevue, Washington, in May 2017. When interviewed by investigators, Sjarpe said he hated middle easterners and “supports Trump in keeping them out,” according to a police report. A week later, Sjarpe allegedly racially abused and threatened an Ethiopian-American man at a thrift shop in a separate incident. Sjarpe, 55, was charged with two counts of malicious harassment as a hate crime. He agreed to plead guilty to one count and was sentenced to six months in jail.

• Kyle Chapman

  DateMarch 2017

  LocationBerkeley, California

  

  Source: Alameda County District Attorney's Office

  Chapman, 41, was filmed hitting counter-demonstrators over the head with a wooden baton during a “March 4 Trump” rally in Berkeley, California, in March 2017. He was charged in Alameda County, California, with possession of a leaded cane, a felony. He has pleaded not guilty and was released on bail. Chapman was subsequently arrested in July 2018 and detained on charges of assault with a deadly weapon in Harris County, Texas. He was released on bail.

• Brandon Davis

  DateFebruary 2017

  LocationKey West, Florida

  

  Davis knocked a gay man off his bicycle by ramming his scooter into him in Key West, Florida, in February 2017. He used homophobic slurs, told the man and his partner: “You’re in Trump country now” and noted they probably voted for “that bitch Hillary". Davis, then 30, was arrested and charged with felony aggravated battery. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to 75 hours of community service and four years of probation.

• Robin Rhodes

  DateJanuary 2017

  LocationWorcester, Massachusetts

  

  Rhodes, of Worcester, Massachusetts, allegedly assaulted a Muslim woman at John F Kennedy airport in January 2017 and told her: “Trump is here now. He will get rid of all of you.” He referenced Islam and Isis during an expletive-laden tirade. In a lounge at the airport, Rhodes allegedly kicked the woman, who worked for Delta airlines, in her right leg. He then allegedly kicked the door to her office and blocked her from exiting. An attorney for Rhodes said the incident was “overblown”. Rhodes, then 57, was charged with multiple crimes including third-degree assault as a hate crime. He pleaded guilty in March 2018 to third-degree menacing and was sentenced to three years of probation.

• Elizabeth and Marc Hokoana

  DateJanuary 2017

  LocationSeattle, Washington

  

  The Hokoanas allegedly attacked demonstrators outside an appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right writer, at the University of Washington in Seattle, in January 2017. Marc Hokoana, 29, was taunting the demonstrators by saying “Trump was their president,” according to police. Elizabeth Hokoana, 29, shot and wounded a demonstrator confronting Marc for pepper-spraying the crowd. Elizabeth Hokoana was charged with first-degree assault with a firearm. Marc Hokoana was charged with third-degree assault. They pleaded not guilty and said they were acting in self-defence. Their case went to trial in July 2019 and a mistrial was declared after the jury was unable to agree on verdicts. The jury foreman publicly complained of bias from jurors who shared the Hokoanas' political views.

• Jacob Holtzlander

  DateNovember 2016

  LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan

  

  Source: Booking photo

  Holtzlander repeatedly punched a taxi driver while shouting “Trump!” following a dispute over a fare in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in November 2016. He also used racist slurs against the driver after being arrested, according to police. The driver, an immigrant from Ethiopia, suffered minor injuries to his head and face. Holtzlander, 23, pleaded guilty to ethnic intimidation. A charge of assault was dropped as part of the plea agreement. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail.

• Curtis Allen, Patrick Stein and Gavin Wright

  DateNovember 2016

  LocationGarden City, Kansas

  

  Allen, Stein and Wright plotted to blow up an apartment complex where Muslim immigrants lived in Garden City, Kansas, in November 2016. The men were members of a far-right group calling themselves “the Crusaders”. At trial, they complained jurors were being drawn from an area that supported Hillary Clinton, and requested jurors from a pro-Trump area. Their attorneys said the case was “uniquely political and that much of the evidence would “center around, and was in reaction to, the 2016 presidential election”. Stein’s attorney said he feared Obama would not accept the result of the election if Trump won. A jury convicted them of charges including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. They were sentenced to 25-30 years in prison.

• Unidentified man

  DateNovember 2016

  LocationBrooklyn, New York

  

  The man punched a woman in the face at a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, after they argued about Trump, according to the manager. He was said to have been angered by hearing the woman express disappointment about Trump’s election win. Onlookers said the man fled and drove away in a white car following the incident in November 2016. The woman, 49, filed a report on the attack to the police, who said they were investigating.

• David Smith

  DateOctober 2016

  LocationGreensboro, North Carolina

  

  Smith, of the group Gays For Trump, placed a demonstrator in a headlock and shoved him at a Trump campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in October 2016. The demonstrator, Derek Dunham, had interrupted the event while holding a US flag upside down. From the stage, Trump accused Dunham of showing “total disrespect for the American flag.” Dunham accused Smith of assaulting him but declined to press charges.

• Todd Warnken

  DateOctober 2016

  LocationAlbany, New York

  

  Source: Albany Police Department

  Warnken threatened to beat a black woman and hurled racial abuse at her outside a grocery store in Albany, New York, during the final weeks of the 2016 election campaign. The woman was waiting for a taxi. “Trump is going to win and if you don’t like it I’m going to beat your ass,” Warnken shouted, according to police. He also told her: “You [racial slurs] had your time. Your eight years are up”. Warnken, 55, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor aggravated harassment.

• Mark Feigin

  DateSeptember 2016

  LocationLos Angeles, California

  

  Source: LAPD

  Feigin was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill people at the Islamic Center of Southern California in a September 2016 telephone call. He denied this. Police discovered 15 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition at his home. Social media accounts used by Feigin, 40, contained violent threats in addition to aggressive pro-Trump and anti-Muslim material. Feigin said in one tweet: “Death upon those who oppose Trump.” He was charged with felony criminal threats as a hate crime. Feigin pleaded no contest to posting harassing messages to the Islamic Center’s Facebook page, and to trying to dissuade investigators from testifying. The threats charge was dropped amid evidence the call was made by someone else.

• Emirjeta Xhelili

  DateSeptember 2016

  LocationBrooklyn, New York

  

  Xhelili attacked two Muslim women walking with their children in Brooklyn, New York, in September 2016. She tried to rip off the women’s headscarves and screamed at them: “Get the fuck out of America, bitches.” The 32-year-old posted anti-Muslim rants to Facebook, where she praised Trump and called herself “Mary MAGAdelene”. A few weeks before the attack she said: “YOU ANTI TRUMP, YOU ANTI AMERICA!!” Xhelili pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime and was sentenced to six months in jail.

• Thomas Vellanti

  DateSeptember 2016

  LocationAsheville, North Carolina

  

  Vellanti, a real estate broker, struck two protesters and grabbed a third by the hair at a Trump campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, in September 2016. The incident, captured on video, was described by police as an assault, and Vellanti was arrested in the days following the event. Police charged Vellanti, 57, with disorderly conduct. The charge was dismissed in September 2017 after Vallenti completed a diversion program.

• Frank Nucera

  DateSeptember 2016

  LocationBordentown Township, New Jersey

  

  Nucera, the police chief of Bordentown Township, New Jersey, allegedly slammed a black teenager’s head into a metal door jamb after arresting him for not paying a hotel bill in September 2016. In secret recordings from the day of the arrest, Nucera was heard using racist slurs about the teenager and other African Americans, and stating: “Donald Trump is the last hope for white people.” Nucera, 60, was charged with a hate crime, depriving the teenager of his civil rights and making false statements to investigators. He has pleaded not guilty.

• Robert Lewis

  DateAugust 2016

  LocationCorona del Mar, California

  

  Lewis threatened violence against a bicyclist during a road rage dispute in Corona del Mar, California, in August 2016. “I oughta smack you so fucking good,” Lewis said. “If there wasn’t any witnesses, you know what I’d do to you? I’d pull Trump on ya.” Lewis, 66, publicly apologized. Police were said to be investigating the incident.

• Daniel Rowe

  DateAugust 2016

  LocationOlympia, Washington

  

  Rowe, a white supremacist, stabbed a biracial couple outside a restaurant in Olympia, Washington, in August 2016. He had traveled to the city to oppose Black Lives Matter activists. He told police he “took a blood oath to fight on the street and “planned on heading down to the next Donald Trump rally and stomping out more of the Black Lives Matter group,” according to court documents. Rowe pleaded guilty to second-degree assault while armed with a deadly weapon, and one count of malicious harassment. He was sentenced to 50 months in prison.

• Jason Kauti

  DateJuly 2016

  LocationGainesville, Georgia

  

  Source: Cox Media Group

  Kauti allegedly threatened to kill a woman who called Trump racist, in a Facebook comment in July 2016. Kauti, 37, wrote: “If we ever cross paths I will kill you and your family.” Police arrested Kauti, of Gainesville, Georgia, and charged him with making terroristic threats, but the charge was dismissed.

• Henry Slapnik

  DateJune 2016

  LocationCleveland, Ohio

  

  Source: A county booking photo of Henry Slapnik, dated 1999.

  In June 2016, Slapnik racially abused black neighbours in Cleveland, Ohio, and threatened them with a knife. Police reported that he told officers: “Donald Trump will fix them because they are scared of Donald Trump.” Slapnik, then 54, pleaded guilty to ethnic intimidation and aggravated menacing. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison.

• Matthew Heimbach

  DateMarch 2016

  LocationLouisville, Kentucky

  

  Source: Matthew Heimbach

  Heimbach, a neo-Nazi, repeatedly shoved a black protester at a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, while wearing his red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap. The incident was recorded on video and widely shared. It followed Trump telling his crowd: “Get ‘em out of here” when protesters interrupted the event. In a legal filing, Heimbach said he “acted pursuant to the directives and requests of Donald J Trump”. Heimbach was charged with harassment. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. A judge waived a 90-day jail sentence on the condition that he took anger management classes and stayed out of trouble for two years.

• Tony Pettway

  DateMarch 2016

  LocationPhoenix, Arizona: Possible Personal Data for Tony

  

  Video footage recorded at a March 2016 Trump campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, showed Pettway sucker-punching a protester and stomping him on the ground. Pettway, a staff sergeant in the US Air Force, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault. Court records state the charge was dismissed as part of a "misdemeanor compromise", a device available in some states for victim and defendant to come to an agreement. Earlier during the rally, Trump had called Pettaway’s victim a “disgusting guy”, according to one report.

• John McGraw

  DateMarch 2016

  LocationFayetteville, North Carolina

  

  Source: Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office

  McGraw sucker-punched a black protester who was being escorted out of a Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in March 2016. He was arrested and pleaded “no contest” to charges including assault and battery. McGraw, then 78, said of his victim shortly afterwards: “Next time we see him, we might have to kill him.” Trump said he was considering paying McGraw’s legal fees, but ultimately did not. At a court hearing, McGraw apologized to his victim, Rakeem Jones, and was sentenced to 12 months probation.

• John Roos

  DateJanuary 2016

  LocationMedford, Oregon: Possible Location for John Roosc

  

  Roos, a Trump supporter from Medford, Oregon, threatened to kill Barack Obama and FBI agents in posts to Facebook and Twitter between 2015 and 2016. He described Trump as “the savior of America” and complained the establishment was “trying to steal the election”. Investigators found pipe bombs at Roos’s home. Roos, 61, pleaded guilty to making threats against the president, making threats against federal law enforcement officers, and possessing an unregistered destructive device. He was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison.

• William Celli

  DateDecember 2015

  LocationRichmond, California: Possible Personal Data for William Celli

  

  In December 2015, Celli allegedly threatened to kill Muslims as they left a mosque in Richmond, California. He constructed a makeshift pipe bomb and posted a photograph of the device to Facebook, where he left anti-Muslim comments. In Facebook posts Celli, 55, mixed anti-Islam and pro-Trump remarks. He said Muslims should be sent back to their “country of origin” and said of Trump: “I’ll follow this MAN to the end of the world”. Authorities charged Celli with making criminal threats as a hate crime and violating the civil rights of mosque attendees. He was found guilty of the civil rights charge and sentenced to 90 days in jail. The threats charge was dismissed.

• Nicholas Tavella

  DateDecember 2015

  LocationState College, Pennsylvania

  

  Source: An undated police photo

  Tavella, a student at Penn State university, grabbed an Indian-American student by the throat in December 2015 and told him: “Don’t make me put a bullet in your chest”. He told police he was “racially profiling” the victim because he “looked suspicious”. An attorney for Tavella told a court Tavella’s actions were due to “Donald Trump rhetoric, covered in the media, that may have incited fear of suspicious individuals.” Tavella, 20, pleaded guilty to charges including felony ethnic intimidation. He was sentenced to between 15 days and 23.5 months in jail. He was released on parole 18 days later, according to court records.

• Scott and Steven Leader

  DateAugust 2015

  LocationBoston, Massachusetts Possible Personal Data For Scott and Steven

  

  Source: An undated police photo

  The Leader brothers beat and urinated on a homeless Latino man in Boston in August 2015 and told police: “Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported.” Their victim, 58-year-old Guillermo Rodriguez, said he was a permanent US resident from Mexico. Scott, 38, and Steven, 30, repeatedly hit Rodriguez with a metal pole and kicked and punched him. Rodriguez suffered broken ribs, bruising and other injuries. The Leaders pleaded guilty to felony charges of assault and battery, intimidation, and civil rights violations. Scott was sentenced to three years in prison and Steven was sentenced to two years in prison.