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 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) Judge Raymond Norko reduced Burke's 40-year sentence by five years. He is now eligible for parole in 2012. Testimony at his re-sentencing hearing from his friends and fellow inmates revealed Burke has been a model prisoner and has become an altar server in church in prison.