| Comment | I'm just saying it's a weird comment to make since the officer seems to believe that the guy needed to be asian for it to count as hate crime. The page you linked gives examples of hate crimes. The point I'm making is that the people yelling racial slurs and such have already committed hate crime even if there wasn't a single Asian, Black or other minority around to hear it. It's very easy to demonstrate from their conduct that their violent actions are motivated by racial aggravation which means that any crime they were currently engaged in falls under hate crime.
As linked below, there are two standalone offenses for hate crime and those are racially aggravated harassment and stirring up of racial hatred. |
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