Baltimore police arrest suspect in man's beating, stripping

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12. Does that mean

I can do what was done to the guy in the video and it's not a hate crime if I don't make any racial or ethnic slurs while doing it? If the thuggish trash in this video had been white, wearing white hoods and robes with swastika and confederate flag regalia it would be considered a hate crime and rightly so. Since blacks have few if any symbols of racial hatred or preferred methods (like lunching) of murdering whites of which I am aware, how does one determine a hate crime without evidence of racial slurs?

A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability. It appeared that most, if not all the people in the video were drunk. Only one was white and only he was accosted, assaulted, degraded and robbed while the rest of the crowd mocked and jeered. So why isn't this a hate crime?