Hate Crimes Through 2024: Colorado

November 19th, 2022. Colorado Springs. A man walked into Club Q — an LGBTQ nightclub — and opened fire. Five people killed. Nineteen injured. Twenty-six attempted murders. He pleaded guilty to 74 hate crimes and was sentenced to 55 consecutive life sentences plus 190 years. Club Q was not an anomaly. It was an escalation of a pattern the data had already been documenting. Sexual orientation accounts for 30 percent of all bias motivations in Colorado — the highest LGBTQ targeting proportion in this series so far. The most common location for hate crimes in Colorado is not the street. It is the home — 348 incidents at residences. Hate that follows people to their front doors. Anti-Black incidents remain the largest single bias type. A neo-Nazi plotted to blow up a synagogue in Pueblo. An antisemitic terror attack was charged in June 2025. The numbers are consistent. The pattern is clear. Let's have this conversation.00:00 — Disclaimer01:28 — Introduction02:55 — Mission04:37 — Opening: Club Q — 5 killed, 19 injured, 26 attempted murders — and the pattern it sits inside07:10 — Background: The national baseline, Colorado's three year trajectory, and why the home is the most common location11:48 — The Data: Anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Jewish, anti-Indigenous — who is being targeted and what the federal cases show17:18 — Personal Truth: Club Q was a hate crime, not just a shooting — and the data had been documenting the environment that produced it23:06 — Close: 348 incidents at residences. Hate that finds you where you live. Know the numbers.DOJ Hate Crimes State Data — justice.gov/hatecrimes/state-data/coloradoFBI Crime Data Explorer — cde.ucr.cjis.govSPLC — splcenter.orgClub Q sentencing — justice.govColorado hate crimes 2024, Club Q shooting Colorado Springs, LGBTQ hate crimes Colorado, anti-Black hate crimes Colorado, antisemitism Colorado, Pueblo synagogue bombing plot, Club Q mass shooting, hate crimes at home Colorado, anti-Indigenous hate crimes Colorado, hate crimes through 2024 series, Colorado hate crime statistics, Afternoon Coffee Break Darren Watts,