Regardless of he shouts that, you can definitely make a case for hate crime based on:
"They always get away with it".
How can one boy be a "they"? Something about the boy triggered a stereotype for him that says criminal. Doesn't have to be based on just skin, could well be "gangster youth" appearance, for instance. Whatever it was, something triggered a characterization of the kid that made him want to see "justice" done.
Sounds to me though, this is a culmination of events over a very long time in which he created such a stereotype.
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