Over at the Clinton News Network, kidnapping and torturing a mentally-disabled guy

while yelling racial and anti-Trump crap isn't evil.  Oh no.
“I don’t think it’s evil,” he said, repeating the point for emphasis. “I think these are young people and they have bad home training.” Then, he explained, “I have no idea who’s raising these young people, because no one I know on earth, 17 years old or 70 years old, would ever think of treating another person like this.”
A: Lemon, have you been paying ANY attention to what a violent shithole Chicago is?
B: He doesn't want to call it a hate crime, either, because 'the police haven't decided that yet.'

Bullshit. 

We all know that if some whites had kidnapped and tortured a black guy, Lemon would be screaming "HATE CRIME!" at the top of his lungs, and so would the other clowns.  But they don't want that label being used against the protected species of Chicago thugs(or anyone else melanin-gifted).

'Hate crimes' is crap to start with.  Throw in that these clowns want to be selective about what skin colors that designation is used against and it's revealed as bullshit.  Either it gets used equally against everyone, or you don't use it at all.  At least if you actually care about justice being blind.

Added: the asshats running Chicago PD are playing the same games.
However, during a Wednesday press conference, police officials refused to speculate on a possible racial motive.

When asked by a reporter why the suspects made anti-white and anti-Trump comments and whether that justifies investigating the horrifying incident as a hate crime, Chicago Police Department Commander Kevin Duffin said, “Kids make stupid decisions — I shouldn’t call them kids, they’re legally adults. But they’re young adults and they make stupid decisions.”

He added, “That will certainly be part of whether or not we determine this a hate crime or whether or not this is stupid ranting and raving.”
Translation: "We don't have the balls or integrity to treat this the same way we would if white thugs had done this to a black guy."

From Second City Cop:
UPDATE: A person commits hate crime when, by reason of the actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or national origin of another individual or group of individuals, regardless of the existence of any other motivating factor or factors, he commits assault, battery, aggravated assault, misdemeanor theft, criminal trespass to residence, misdemeanor criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to vehicle, criminal trespass to real property, mob action, disorderly conduct, harassment by telephone, or harassment through electronic communications as these crimes are defined in Sections 12-1, 12-2, 12-3(a), 16-1, 19-4, 21-1, 21-2, 21-3, 25-1, 26-1, 26.5-2, and paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(5) of Section 26.5-3 of this Code, respectively.
We'd say that freely recording and broadcasting your intentions via social media is by all measures, an un-coerced confession.
Remember, if you reward bad behavior (and the lack of criminal culpability is definitely rewarding) you are going to get more of it. The entire Cook County justice system pretty much just told anyone paying attention exactly what's what - and it isn't "equal justice under the law."