In Lubbock, Texas on this date in 1995 two white men, Roy Ray Martin, and Eli Trevino Mungia, and Ricky Rivera Mungia, a Native American man , were indicted on nine counts of violating federal criminal civil rights and gun laws. The three are alleged to have driven through the streets of Lubbock in October, 1994 hunting black for men, luring them to their car, and shooting them at close range with a short-barreled shotgun in hopes to start a race war. One black man was murdered and two others were seriously wounded. Martin and Eli Mungia are serving life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado; Ricky Mungia is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Louisiana.

In New York on this date in 2007, Kevin M. Brown pleaded guilty to second and third-degree assault as a hate crime for attacking two Asian teenagers. Brown, who is white, was sentenced to 3½ years in prison, and 2½ years of post-release supervision for beating two 19-year-olds, Reyold Liang and John Lu, who were driving in the city's Queens borough in August, 2006, when they were rammed by a car carrying Brown who was shouting racial slurs and cursing. Paul Heavey, a white 21-year-old college student from Queens, also pleaded guilty for his alleged role in the attack days later. He faces five years probation and 75 hours of community service at his May 21, 2007 sentencing. Heavey also must apologize.

On this date in 2009 in Roosevelt, New York on Long Island (Nassau County), an African-American man, Daryl Jackson, 52, of Roosevelt, was beaten with baseball bats and fists while standing in from of a deli on Nassau Road allegedly by a group of five to eight Latino assailants some of whom hurled racial slurs at him according to both eyewitnesses and the victim. Mr. Jackson was hospitalized at the Nassau University Medical Center, where he was treated for head, neck and back injuries sustained in the attack. Arrested were three members of the Vargas family who run the deli where Mr. Jackson was attacked: Jose Miguel Vargas, 35, of Freeport, New York, was charged with weapons possession in addition to assault; Percio Vargas, 53, of the Bronx, Jose's father; and, Kelvin Vargas, 24, of Freeport, Jose's nephew. Also arrested was Juan Nuñez, a New York City police officer at the 101st Precinct in Queens, who is from Freeport. Despite racial epithets used by the attackers, including the N-word, Nassau Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said those charged would not face hate crime charges. This exemplifies why Long Island, New York, topped our list of the most hateful places to live in 2008.