In Spencerport, New York, on this date in 2008, at Snuggery's Bar a gay man, Lance Neve, 26, was beaten and kicked to unconsciousness shortly after someone yelled anti-gay slurs to him and his boyfriend, Osbert Maldonado, 28, of Rochester. Mr. Neve was transported to Strong Memorial Hospital where he was treated for a fractured skull, fractured nose, fractured left eye socket, fractured upper jaw bone, and blood on the brain. Jesse D. Parsons, 24, an ex-con from Spencerport previously convicted of burglary, turned himself in to Ogden police on March 16, 2008, and was initially held in jail on $15,000 bail. On August 28, 2008, Parsons was arraigned on a charge of second-degree felony assault committed as a hate crime. On November 20, 2008, Parsons struck a plea deal that would have the hate crime charge against him dropped; in that agreement, he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and he was to spend four years in prison, five years of supervised release and pay Mr. Neve's medical expenses. However, immediately before the plea deal was to be finalized, Parsons told Neve in court that he deserved to be attacked. Judge Richard Keenan then withdrew the plea agreement and the remorseless Parsons was to stand trial for the hate crime assault charge. If convicted as charged, he could have received a five- to fifteen-year prison sentence. On December 23, 2008, Parsons received a five-and-a-half year prison sentence in a plea bargain agreement that had the hate crime charge against him dropped.

In 2009 on this date outside the Kerestir Synagogue at Berry and South Eighth Streets in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, worshippers had soda cans thrown at them as the entered the temple by two men, one of whom—described as a black man in his early twenties—is said to have returned with a butcher knife a short time later. To our knowledge no arrests were made.