Should looters be charged with a hate crime if

[lfromnj]

they see 2 stores and they know one is black owned and only loot the non-black owned one?
I say looting could be considered intimidation?
Lets assume we have admission from the looter or some other clear proof.

Anyway I say go ahead and charge them with the hate crime, so we can finally have an agreement to end the law once the woke left gets outraged at the law.

[lfromnj]

No, as there should be no such thing as a "hate crime".  A crime is a crime and should be tried the same regardless of the apparent motivation. 

My question is more legal, I do mostly agree with you but I'm asking if in definition with the law as of right now.