"Suddenly, two black men appeared and began punching the victim in the face and yelling anti-Mexican slurs, the police said."
"The police say they are investigating the latest attack as a hate crime. They also treated the nine earlier cases as hate crimes, though in the three cases in which arrests have been made, grand jurors declined prosecutors requests to indict the suspects on hate-crime charges."
Oh, so it’s a “hate crime” (as opposed to a “love beating”) when the victim ALSO is a “minority”.
It DEFINITELY wouldn’t have been a “hate crime” if the victim was white, we know that for sure.