Is this a hate crime?

[Tonyg41]

80% of the responses on this thread were based off of what OP posted and the link, the details in your quoted portion are different. No mentioning of "white boy" was in the story no mentioning of the 5 year old saying what he said and other things that do lead it to be a racially motivated crime. Your quoted portion is a lot more convincing of it being a racial crime.