Two men have been charged with hate crimes in the brutal beating of a gay man that was caught on tape in College Point last October. A grand jury indicted 21-year-old Daniel Rodriguez and 26-year-old Daniel Aleman on 14 counts of assault and robbery as a hate crime, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced yesterday [pdf]. The two men allegedly attacked 49-year-old Jack Price after he left a deli around 4:30 a.m. on October 8th. Aleman and Rodriguez are accused of "shouting anti-gay slurs at him" before the assault, which left Price hospitalized for three weeks with a broken jaw, several broken ribs, two collapsed lungs and a lacerated spleen.
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