Terry Price has told his children and his married woman they are not allowed to wear their "Make America great again" hats in public without him by their side after a man held a gun to his head for wearing the red cap.

Price, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, previously told Newsweek that he and his married woman were shopping at Sam'southward Order in Bowling Greenish wearing the hats when James Phillips, 57, allegedly pointed a Glock .40 caliber gun at Cost'south face up. Phillips allegedly told Price "this is a skilful day for you to die." He was arrested and charged with wanton endangerment.

Following the incident, Price said some of his friends changed their party affiliations from Democrats to Republicans because they could no longer "place with a party that has and so much hate."

"Information technology'south just gone too far," Price recently told Newsweek. "Republicans, conservatives and Christians need to stand up upward and take action against this kind of hate."

In 2017, hate crimes in the U.S. increased 17 percent, ascension for the third year in a row. Forty-9 percent of race-based incidents were "motivated past anti-Black or African American bias," while 17.5 targeted white individuals, co-ordinate to the 2017 FBI Hate Crime written report. More than than 58 percent of religiously motivated attacks targeted Jewish individuals, the written report stated.

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A "Make America Great Once more'' hat is burned on California'southward UC Berkeley campus during a protest on February ane, 2017. Hate crime experts have seen a rise in alleged criminal acts against people wearing President Donald Trump'due south MAGA garb. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

Brian Levin, the managing director of the Center for the Study of Detest and Extremism at California Country University, San Bernardino, told Newsweek that the center had also noticed a rise in alleged criminal acts against people wearing President Donald Trump'southward MAGA hats and clothing.

"We have a polarized, racially, political infused landscape—this kind of conflict now bleeds over," said Levin.

"Unfortunately, we expect to meet more than of this. We believe that white nationalists and far-right extremists represent the nearly prominent extremism threats," Levin connected. "At a time of intense sectionalization, likewise as the accession of euro or white nationalism, you're going to get these retaliatory movements to arise as well, even though white nationalism is broadly dispersed and has the virtually followers."

Newsweek has compiled a list of assaults and incidents that accept occurred this year toward individuals wearing MAGA garb.

March 6, 2019

Law are investigating an incident later surveillance video from a schoolhouse bus in Martin Canton, Florida, showed a jitney aide yanking a student'southward "Make America great once more" hat off his head.

Gunnar Johnansson, 14, told WPTV that students at Subconscious Oaks Eye Schoolhouse were allowed to clothing hats to schoolhouse that calendar week if they made a donation to March of Dimes. He told the news station he wanted to wear his MAGA lid "to evidence pride in Trump America." Once he boarded the jitney, the unidentified charabanc aide told him to remove the hat earlier they grabbed information technology from him, WPTV reported.

"Boy, if you don't that hat off this bus…accept information technology off," the bus aide said, according to surveillance video obtained past the news station.

March 2, 2019

A woman claimed she and her friends were attacked for wearing "Brand America Peachy Again" hats. The Austin American-Statesman reported that Haley Maddox and her friends were attacked on East 6th Street in Austin, Texas, during Texas Independence week. In a video posted to Instagram, she said a bartender attacked her friend while they were trying to order drinks.

"On Saturday night me and my girlfriends were viciously attacked by an entire bar of people, men and women included, for wearing MAGA hats," she said in the video posted to Instagram. "We did not go in with the intentions of starting a fight. We were just wearing our MAGA hats out on a Sabbatum and we wanted to show our support for Texas Independence calendar week. Nosotros asked i of the bartenders to aid u.s. and he ended upwards choking out one of my friends."

Maddox said she and her friends were attacked a second time after leaving the bar because of their hats. She and her friends filed a second law report, but claimed the police that helped them "showed bias" for allegedly suggesting the hats were the reason they were attacked.

"The cops that nosotros reported this to showed bias, in our opinion, toward u.s. because we were Trump supporters and insinuated that this happened because we wore those hats and that'due south to exist expected present, I guess," Maddox said in the video.

March i, 2019

At least ane student was suspended from Perry High School in Gilbert, Arizona, for wearing MAGA gear and walking effectually with a Trump flag during a school spirit day with the theme "Political party in the USA," the Arizona Republic reported. Parents and students claimed school administrators demanded the students remove the MAGA clothing, but a district spokesperson told Arizona Fundamental that the students were only asked to put the banner away.

February 25, 2019

Two students at Edmond Santa Atomic number 26 High Schoolhouse in Edmond, Oklahoma, allegedly got into an atmospherics over a Trump banner and Trump gear.

Kenneth Dewayne Jones, 18, could be charged with attack and battery after he was given a court summons on Monday for confronting a white student wearing a red "Make America great again" chapeau and wearing President Donald Trump's banner equally a cape, The Edmond Sun reported. The video obtained past the publication shows Jones, who is black, confronting the other student.

"Take it off or I'll rip it off … practice you want me to rip information technology off?" Jones can be heard proverb.

The parents of the student who was confronted by Jones decided on March 4 that they would go on with pressing municipal charges against Jones, KFOR reported.

February 25, 2019

An elderly man was assaulted inside a New Jersey supermarket later on he was confronted for wearing a "Make America corking again" chapeau, WCBS reported. The 81-year-erstwhile man from Franklin Township was shopping at ShopRite when he was confronted about his red hat, co-ordinate to authorities. The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office announced on February 27 that they arrested Ryan M. Salvagno, 19, for the set on. Salvagno was charged with assail, a hell-raising person's criminal offense and harassment, and a petty disorderly person'due south offense, TIME reported.

Feb twenty, 2019

A student from California is taking a stand after existence told she could not wear her "Make America great once again" chapeau on her school'due south campus. Maddie Mueller, a student who attends Clovis North High Schoolhouse in Fresno, is part of a grouping called the Valley Patriots. The group was asked to wear the hats at schoolhouse, but the Clovis Unified Schoolhouse District said she could not wear the hat on campus.

Feb 17, 2019

An employee at a Vans wear shop in Overland Park, Kansas, was fired from his job for swearing at a teen for wearing a "Brand America great over again" lid. A video posted to social media showed the mother of the teen against the store manager at the store at the Oak Park Mall nearly the expletive that was directed to her son the day earlier. The company confirmed that the employee who said the expletive was fired, maxim, "The deportment and comments from one employee in our Oak Park location are in contrast with our visitor'southward values."

February sixteen, 2019

A couple from Kentucky claimed a man who was food shopping with his mother drew his gun and pointed information technology at them while they were wearing "Brand America great again" hats.

Terry Toll said James Phillips, 57, took out his loaded Glock .xl caliber gun and pointed it at the couple while they were shopping at Sam's Club in Bowling Light-green. He allegedly flipped off the couple because of their hats, stuck the gun in Toll's face up and said, "This is a good day for you to die."

February xv, 2019

Rosiane Santos was arrested in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and charged with disorderly bear, attack and battery for knocking off a man'southward "Make America great again" hat, USA Today reported. The incident was captured on video by the victim, Bryton Turner. Santos at present faces deportation following the incident for being an unlawful resident from Brazil living in Falmouth.

Jan 18, 2019

A educatee from a Cosmic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, wearing a MAGA hat went viral after a video surfaced on social media challenge he made racist remarks toward activist Nathan Phillips. Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann and his friends went viral after a video of them wearing "Make America great again" hats while confronting a Native American chirapsia a drum following two rallies at the National Mall. Initial reports were wrong: A longer video showed that the teens did non actually start the confrontation.

The quick video accused Sandmann and his friends of being racist toward Phillips, which led to a slew of death threats. Sandmann said the video was spreading "misinformation" about the incident. Sandmann's attorney sent more than 50 letters to media outlets, celebrities and individuals for possible libel and defamation lawsuits.