Hate crimes across the US have surged since Trump was elected (Picture: Getty Images/Metro.co.uk)

There has been a disturbing surge in reported hate crimes in the US since Donald Trump was elected on Wednesday.

Police in the country warned of an increase in hate incidents, while social media has also been flooded with accounts of sometimes violent, and even deadly attacks against Muslims, African Americans and Latinos.

And amidst the rising racial tensions, the Ku Klux Klan has announced a major ‘victory rally’ in North Carolina over the election of Trump – whom they had openly endorsed during the campaign.

While reports flood in, here are just some of the horrific things Americans have been experiencing over the last few days.




High school students are handed ‘deportation letters’

A pupil at Shasta High School in Redding, California, handed out ‘deportation letters’ to non-white students, just one day after Trump was announced president-elect.

One Hispanic mother, Melissa Fraizer, told local station KRCR TV that students were making racially charged comments to her daughter – such as, ‘Are you ready to go back to Mexico?’.

‘My initial thought was [my daughter has] never even been to Mexico, “What are these people thinking?”‘

Racist graffiti telling black people their lives don’t matter

The graffiti has since been cleaned off (Picture: WNCN)

‘Black lives don’t matter and neither does your vote’, reads the graffiti scrawled on two walls in Durham, North Carolina.

Quanisha Whitfield and her fiance Jonathan Davis told WNCN that they were walking nearby with their children, aged 6 and 8, when they saw it.

‘You don’t know how it’s going to affect them in the future, but I try to tell them to pay it no mind and be better than that, and pray and home the situation changes,’ Davis said.

Someone later came and changed the ‘don’t’ to ‘do’, so it now reads ‘Black lives do matter’.

Pupils do Nazi salutes and call black students ‘cotton pickers’

Pupils at one high school were reportedly shouting ‘Sieg Heil’ and doing Nazi salutes, as well as calling black children ‘cotton pickers’ – among a slew of other racist attacks.

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The incidents happened at Southern Lehigh High School in the Lehigh Valley, on the border of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to Lehigh Valley Live.

They were also shouting gay slurs at other pupils, freely using the n-word, and scrawling swastikas on the walls of bathroom cubicles, on homework, laptops and screensavers.

District Superintendent Kathleen Evison said those involved had been disciplined, adding: ‘This is very unusual for us to hear this kind of language and, obviously, very disturbing.’

Black university students added to a racist social media account with a ‘daily lynching’ calendar

First-year students at the University of Pennsylvania were added to an account on GroupMe that posted racist slurs and photos of people being lynched – a common form of murder committed against black people by white supremacists in America.

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‘I spent my morning running to the Vice Provost office of my university in the middle of class because my freshmen brothers and sisters got added to a group called ‘N***** Lynching,’ one law student wrote on Facebook.

‘I stared an administrator in the eye and literally lost it. And quite honestly I just can’t stop crying. I feel sick to my stomach. I don’t feel safe.’



The university confirmed that it was investigating the account and taking steps to get it removed.

A statement from Penn on the current events on campus. pic.twitter.com/CALK7OERup — Penn (@Penn) November 11, 2016

‘Trump!’ written on the door of a Muslim prayer room at NYU

Students at New York University’s school of engineering were disturbed to find the president-elect’s name scrawled on the door of a Muslim prayer room.

‘Our campus is not immune to the bigotry that grips America,’ the NYU Muslim Students Association said in a statement on Facebook.

This morning at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Muslim students found "Trump" scrawled on the door of their prayer… Geplaatst door NYU Muslim Students Association op Woensdag 9 november 2016

School children chant ‘Build the wall!’

Pupils at the Royal Oak Middle School in Michigan started chanting ‘Build the wall! Build the wall!’ in the canteen the day after Trump was elected.

A video of the incident was posted on social media, and since then the school says it is working with kids ‘to help them understand the impact of their words and actions on others in their school community’.

Swastikas and other Nazi graffiti in Philadelphia

Swastikas and ‘Sieg Heil 2016’ were scrawled on a building’s glass window in South Philadelphia, in an act that has been condemned by the US’s Anti-Defamation League.

As well as the Nazi graffiti, people had spray-painted ‘Trump Rules’ and ‘Trump Rules Black N*****s’.

It happened on November 9 which, as well as being the day Trump was elected, was also the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht – when Nazis rampaged through German towns, destroying Jewish-owned businesses, homes, schools and synagogues.

‘Whites only’ and ‘Go back to Africa’ scrawled on walls of high school

Moses Karngbaye, a pupil at a Minnesota high school, said the moments after he saw racist graffiti daubed on the school walls were the ‘first time I honestly felt like crying at school’.

The graffiti, according to local station WCCO, read ‘#GobacktoAfrica’, ‘Make America Great Again’, ‘Whites Only, ‘White America’ and ‘Trump’.

District officials in Maple Grove say they are "horrified" by racist graffiti scrawled today in a bathroom. | https://t.co/cO5EVnUBjz pic.twitter.com/rj0rMoVeJm — WCCO – CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) November 9, 2016

Student in a hijab confronted with comments about Trump and Muslims


A young woman in San Diego was confronted by two men as she was walking to her car.

‘Comments made to the student indicate she was targeted because of her Muslim faith, including her wearing of a traditional garment and hijab,’ police said.

They then grabbed her purse and rucksack and took her keys, before stealing her car.

The suspects are still at large, and police are treating the incident as a hate crime.

Due to a spate of similar crimes across the US, many Muslim women are considering taking off their hijabs.

It pains me to read stories of muslim women contemplating to take off their hijab due to fear of reprisals in USA, the "Land of the free" — Saddiq (@SyedSaddiq) November 9, 2016

Man yanks woman’s hijab off her head

A young woman, a student at San Jose State University, said she was walking to her car when a man came up behind her and pulled at her hijab.

He did so with such force that she lost her balance and was choked by the scarf. The suspect, a fair-skinned male in a dark hoodie, ran away.

A black doll hung from a curtain pole

Students at Canisius College in western New York state posted photos online of a black doll that had been strung up on a dorm curtain pole.

College President John J Hurley said some students had been suspended, and may be expelled over the incident.

An outside investigator is also going to be hired to look into whether the students should be prosecuted for hate crimes.

Leaflets posted in a New York apartment block

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Slipped under the door in a Queens apartment block Posted by Jared Hawkes Solmssen on Friday, November 11, 2016

Flyers were allegedly slipped under the door of an apartment block in Queens, New York, warning that ‘thugs and illegals’ would be ‘put out’.

‘Attention!!!!’ the flyer, which is written in all caps, begins. ‘All n*****s and sp*cs have one week to vacate this building!!!

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‘This is now a Trump friendly building! The people of America have spoken. The time has come for good decent white people to take back our streets from thugs and illegals!


‘We know who you are and where you live. If you are not out in one week, we will put you out! Immigration will now begin doing their job! Police will have the power to reclaim our violent streets from black thugs.

‘You have been warned! Proud American voter! Trump 2016’

A photo of the print-out has been circulated on Facebook.

A KKK ‘victory’ rally in North Carolina

Members of the KKK in 1922 (Picture: Getty Images)

A Klansman in 2000 in Illinois (Picture: Getty Images)

One report of the Ku Klux Klan organising in North Carolina was debunked, but was shortly followed by an official announcement from the white supremacist group that they would be holding something after all.

According to the website of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, the so-called ‘Victory Klavalkade Klan Parade’ will be held on December 3.

In all caps, the group announced that ‘TRUMP’S RACE UNITED MY PEOPLE’.