http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/227116738-story
I hope this is some of that “fake news” that everyone’s always talking about.
Nope, seems to be real.
http://nypost.com/2017/01/04/special-needs-man-tortured-while-attackers-stream-it-on-facebook/
Is this a hate crime?
The first news story I read on this (can’t remember the site) clearly stated in the opening paragraph that the perpetrators were black and the victim was white. I went back to the same site later that day and they’d edited it to remove the races of those involved.
I lean toward the liberal end of the spectrum and I still think this is clearly an anti-white guy crime, especially given the anti-Trump rants of the perpetrators. I don’t know what the legal requirements are for a hate crime, though — do people need to be a member of a minority or protected group in order to be victims of a hate crime, or is only the intent of expressing hate toward a particular group required? I also suspect that if this were 4 white people hammering on a black guy and screaming anti-Obama nonsense, it would be classified as a hate crime and the races of those involved would be displayed prominently in all news stories (except Fox News, maybe).
JEDIT: Frink got in right before I did.