Students charged with hate crimes after police say they threw pork in Jewish frat house

Two students at Syracuse University in New York are being charged with hate crimes after being accused of tossing a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity home during a celebration for the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah, authorities said.

Just before 6 p.m. on Sept. 23, a student who is not part of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity entered the house and threw a clear plastic bag with meat later identified as pork in it inside the residence while fraternity members were gathered for the celebration, the students said, according to the Syracuse Police Department. The student then got into a car driven by a second student and the two fled, the university said.

Both students were "quickly apprehended" by campus officers and taken into custody. The students, identified by police as Kyle Anderson and Samuel Patten, both 18, were each charged with burglary in the second degree as a hate crime and criminal nuisance in the second degree, police said.

According to the district attorney, Patten is accused of throwing the pork and entering the house, and Anderson is accused of driving the car. An attorney listed in court records as representing Anderson had no comment, and an attorney for Patten didn't immediately respond to a request from USA TODAY.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/26/hate-crime-charges-syracuse-students-jewish-fraternity/86348048007/?tbref=hp

Disgusting and despicable. No home training!