[When do we get liberated?]

Hate crime legislation is stupid. Charge him with his crimes. Several counts of attempted murder.
This country was founded on freedom. Including stupidity. If he hates white people, that is his belief. Same goes for the white supremacists. If you think that way, you are ignorant and stupid in my opinion. By the same right I am free to think they are both ignorant and stupid. Allow legislation against thought crimes for a few generations, and we are headed down a slippery slope.
On the other hand trying to kill women and children is illegal. That should be punished

[kittycatonline.com]

Hate crime legislation is stupid.

Amen, bro, amen. I can't recall when the phrase "hate crime" came into vogue, but it's flat out stupid. Personally, if somebody sticks a knife in my side, I don't really care if they hate me, love me, or are just doing it cuz' somebody gave 'em a hundred bucks. It's a knife in my side. Somebody throws a rock through the window of my rig while I'm driving, it's pretty irrelevant what was on their mind at the moment.

What has happened is that activists judges and lawyers have turned thoughts into crimes instead of actions.

[Law is not justice but process]

"Allow legislation against thought crimes for a few generations, and we are headed down a slippery slope. "

Absolutely. Why is it a greater crime to kill someone because you dislike their racial/ethnic group than it would be because you dislike them personally? It is hard enough for we prosecutors to prove malice, now we have to prove motivation as well? Murder (or attempted murder, in the case at hand) is a crime that we need to punish, not the thought that led to the murder. It is legal to be a Klansman or a Black Panther or one of those nuts who want to re-annex California to Mexico (not that I am necessarily against that, mind you). We do not punish thought, no matter how repugnant. We punish actions. It is, in my opinion, a First Amendment violation to try to punish thought. This guy belongs in prison because he threw a piece of concrete at a car with people in it, not because he is a racist idiot.