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.

In Sellersburg, Indiana, on this date in 2011, it was first reported that an openly gay student at Silver Creek High School, Rito Osorio, 16, was lured into a boy's bathroom at the school, and then beaten as his attacker hurled anti-gay slurs at him while other students watched. The attack occurred a week earlier. Osorio's nose was fractured in several places, and his lip ring was rammed into the roof of his mouth so violently that the piece of jewelry required surgical removal. Sellersburg police refused to investigate the attack as a hate crime; instead, they called the unprovoked attack a "fight". However, the 16-year-old Silver Creek High School attacker was arrested and charged with battery—an unusual event for a so-called "fight." Sellersburg, Indiana is a Sundown Town, and it is not uncommon for residents of current and former Sundown Towns to be charged with hate crimes (regardless of the bias motivation for the hate crime) or to be involved in bias-motivated violence. As of the 2000 U.S. Census Sellerburg, Indiana was 98.48% White, and only 1.04% Hispanic or Latino of any race, 0.28% Native American, 0.25% African American, 0.16% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.28% from other races, and 0.53% from two or more races.

On this date in 2011 it was reported that in the Braybourne subdivision just east of Olive Branch, Mississippi (DeSoto County) on either March 5 or 6, 2011, someone blew up the mailbox of a Hispanic family with a homemade chemical bomb that scattered metal and ball bearings over most of the street in what law enforcement believe could be a hate crime. Alicia Paez, the victim of the crime, said she had no enemies or problems with her neighbors. If you have any information about this crime, please call (662) 429-TIPS.

In Detriot, Michigan, on this date in 2011 in a convenience store at a BP gas station, a young black man, Justin Alesna, 23, of Detroit, Michigan, was viciously attacked by another store customer because of Mr. Alesna's perceived sexual orientation. Mr. Alesna, who was waiting in line to buy cigarettes, was told by a man to not stand close to him. Then the man asked Mr. Alesna if he was "a fucking homo," and called him a "fucking faggot." After ignoring the man and buying cigarettes, Mr. Alesna attemped to leave the store at which point the man stopped Mr. Alesna, showed him a gun, and then punched him in the face causing a shattered eye socket which will like require reconstructive facial surgery. Although Mr. Alesna asked the store cashier to call the police, the cashier did not do that. According to Mr. Alesna, the store clerk merely laughed during the assault.