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→Real hate crimes: vandalizing a historic black school house
The hate crime was one of many anti-Trump hate-crimes after the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 presidential election]].<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/05/facebook-live-attack-latest-in-string-anti-trump-assaults.html Facebook Live attack the latest in string of anti-Trump assaults]. ''Fox News''. January 5, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2017.</ref>
The hate crime was one of many anti-Trump hate-crimes after the [[2016 U.S. presidential election|2016 presidential election]].<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/05/facebook-live-attack-latest-in-string-anti-trump-assaults.html Facebook Live attack the latest in string of anti-Trump assaults]. ''Fox News''. January 5, 2017. Retrieved January 6, 2017.</ref>
Community volunteers had been working for years to restore the Old Ashburn Schoolhouse, which historically had been a one-room segregated school for blacks in Loudoun County, Virginia. On October 1, 2016, five teenagers spray-painted “white power,” swastikas, crude drawings and profanities on the exterior of the school.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2016/10/5-teens-identified-as-suspects-in-historic-va-schoolhouse-vandalism/slide/4/|title=5 teens identified as suspects in historic Va. schoolhouse vandalism|work=WTOP|date=October 5, 2016|accessdate=January 7, 2017}}</ref>
In 1978, [[University of Miami]] football players threw an orthodox Jewish employee of the campus Jewish ministry into Lake Osceola, a lake on the campus. The man was wearing a Jewish cap and was on his way to Friday night services. Although no hate crime statute was enacted at the time, the national controversy lead to the resignation of the football coach.<ref name="Feldman 2004 17–18">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|pages=17–18|isbn=0-451-21297-5}}</ref>
In 1978, [[University of Miami]] football players threw an orthodox Jewish employee of the campus Jewish ministry into Lake Osceola, a lake on the campus. The man was wearing a Jewish cap and was on his way to Friday night services. Although no hate crime statute was enacted at the time, the national controversy lead to the resignation of the football coach.<ref name="Feldman 2004 17–18">{{cite book|last=Feldman|first=Bruce|title=Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment|publisher=[[New American Library]]|location=New York|year=2004|pages=17–18|isbn=0-451-21297-5}}</ref>