On this date in 1995, in a federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, David Walden, a sales manager from Ellisville, Missouri, and Shawn Daniels, a self-employed small business owner from Fenton, Missouri, pleaded guilty to federal criminal civil rights violations for spraying more than fifty African-American St. Louis residents with a high-pressure fire extinguisher filled with Kool-Aid in September, 1991. The liquid pressure was so strong that it knocked some victims to the ground. Victims were chosen because of their race and a videotape of the attacks show the attackers referring to their victims as “niggers.” Walden's then wife, Deanna Powers, who had worked as a physical education teacher in the Lindburgh School District, was in the car videotaping the attacks in largely black neighborhoods. Deanna Powers, who cooperated with the investigation, later resigned from her teaching job and no charges were filed against her. The U.S. Department of Justice reported that Walden and Daniels had engaged in similar activities in October 1991, and on January 20, 1992.

Although the brutal killing with a fireplace log of Richard Reihl by Sean Burke (then 17) and Marcos Perez in 1988 led Connecticut to pass a law to include sexual orientation as a protected hate crime category, on this date in 2006 Manchester (Connecticut) Superior Court Judge Raymond Norko reduced Burke's 40-year sentence by five years after Burke, 35, begged for a reduced sentence and forgiveness in a Manchester courtroom on November 17, 2005. He is now eligible for parole in 2012. Testimony at his re-sentencing hearing from his friends and fellow inmates revealed Burke had been a model prisoner and had become an altar server in church in prison. Perez, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison, had his request for a sentence reduction hearing denied.

In Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on this date in 2010, a Hispanic woman, Miriam L. Malave, 37, of Shenandoah, allegedly yelled, "All the whites are going to die tonight," at the M&T Bar on South Main Street where she is said to have assaulted M&T employees, Melissa Elrod and George "Nick" Haller. Miriam Malave was charged with three counts each of aggravated assault, simple assault and conspiracy, two counts of recklessly endangering another person and one each of terroristic threats, harassment and ethnic intimidation (a hate crime). Malave's three sons, Danny "D Block" Malave, 21, whose last known address was in Shenandoah, Richard "Brick" Malave, 19, of Paterson, New Jersey, and Michael Berdecia, 18, of Gordon, Pennsylvania, were also charged in connection with the incident at the M&T Bar. Miriam Malave has a history of violence. On September 20, 2009, Miriam L. Malave stabbed a woman in the thigh and in the abdomen during a fight outside the La Casita bar, on East Centre Street, and on May 19, 2010, Malave pleaded no contest to aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person for that attack. She was sentenced to 15 to 30 months in a state correctional institution, ordered to pay costs, and to have no contact with the victim or her family. Malave was also charged with harassment and disorderly conduct in the La Casita bar incident, but those charges were dropped.