I have mixed feelings on this subject. If it was a bunch of white people on four blacks, yelling "White power", I'd view it as a hate crime -- done because of four's color, probably not because they wanted the basketball court.
And while it's most defnitely a crime, I don't think it was a hate crime based on race in this instance -- they probably just wanted the court. But I've never met the people involved, so I can't tell you what they were thinking.
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