"Someone came up to me speaking nonsensically, I didn't understand what he was saying," he said. "I tried to leave and as I turned my back he struck me in my lower back. "When you wake up and think 'what's my day going to be like?' you really don't want to think about 'maybe I'll be attacked today'." Mr Gregory added: "We're not out here to get you, we're trying to keep traffic flowing."
Three young men who lured victims they found on Grindr and then assaulted them for "Catch a Predator"-style videos they posted to social media received light sentences from judges in New Zealand, despite finding that they were all guilty of committing hate crimes. Thomas Bull, Patrick Moloney and Ethan Jeffs, who were 18 or 19 years old at the time of the assaults, were sentenced to between just 8.5 and 10.5 months home detention for the assault spree.
"Everybody should stand away from the edge of the platform," said Janno Lieber, CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, emphasizing safety after a string of subway assaults.