[3] The 2000s and early 2010s saw major sporadic outbreaks of violence against Somali shopkeepers in South Africa.
[4] However, some writers have attributed such hostility to a wider xenophobia, since other non-South Africa Africans were targeted as well.
On 30 October 2015, Asma Jama (a Muslim woman of Somali descent and Kenyan nationality) was viciously beaten for speaking Swahili in an Applebee's on the outskirts of Minneapolis.
[8] Minneapolis City Council member Abdi Warsame discussed anti-Somali sentiments in the aftermath of the shooting of Justine Damond by a Somali police officer.
[9] In Dodge City, Kansas several Somali men were the victims of hate crimes ranging from racial slurs to serious bodily injury in 2016.