Now attacking a store because it's associated with the wealthy isn't a hate crime under Illinois law. But if it can be proved that a looter attacked a store partly because it was associated with people who are not "Black and Brown" (whether those people were owners, indirect owners, managers, or patrons), that would be a hate crime—just as of course it would be a hate crime to attack a store partly because it was associated with people who were "Black and Brown." [More]
That's a chair and this is a vicious bar fight.
[Via Michael G]
It's all crap. It's far from the only hate-crime law that is written in a race-neutral way, but in practice, every one of them is perennially prosecuted in only one direction.
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