Re: Not a racially aggravated attack
A US court would have also likely ruled it was not racially motivated. In New York a little while ago, there were two incidients that occured within a week or two of each other.
A black kid and his friends go into a white neighboorhood in Queens with the intention of steeling a car (he admitted this) and is beaten by a group of white kids. Both the black and white kids involved are common street thugs, and this was nothing more than one group of idiots fighting with another, but it was called a hate crime. The mayor showed up and said that there is "no tollerance for hate crimes"
A week or two later, in Westchester, a black man goes on rampage and screams that he will kill a white woman because she is white, and proceeds to kill her. It is not considered a hate crime, and the case was largely ignored by the media.
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