Those include a report last month of a man making anti-gay remarks and attacking a woman with a ketchup bottle at a Village diner and of two men walking arm-in-arm near Madison Square Garden being jumped by a group of men on May 5, police said.

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In the second, two men were walking in lower Manhattan at about 5 a.m.

WSJ: 2 more reports of anti-gay attacks in NYC

He took the mound to thunderous applause, induced a pop-up from the first batter, and then struck out the next two men looking, walking off the mound to another standing ovation, the first two of what are sure to be dozens this year.

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Mr Paton told the jury that he and Mr Hepburn had been approached by two men as they were walking home from a pub.

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Now, however, what unites the two men most is that they have become walking advertisements of the benefits of not retiring.

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And there is still something else -- a disturbing incident that occurred not long after Johnny Lee Butts was killed and just around the corner: Four young African-American boys say they were walking on the shoulder of Smart Road when two white men in a white Jeep aimed straight for them, scaring them into the ditch.

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The women, all teachers, were walking home from a school when they were attacked by two men on a motorbike.

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Yesterday as I was walking to a local tube station, two groups of several young men on BMX bikes and wearing dark hoodies cycled passed me on the sidewalk, all staring intently ahead and veering towards Paddington.

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There were six security guards at the scene on that morning in late 2006 when two young men on a motorcycle seized Gupta's toddler son, Anant, while his maid was walking him from his house to the nearby school bus stop.

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