Assistant DA Kelly Wolford said, “A hate crime would make this charge about Sam’s gender or about Sam’s race, and it’s so much bigger. To limit us to a hate crime would be an injustice to Sam. Sam was beaten, assaulted, sexually abused, starved, held captive. And we cannot make sense of that. We cannot put that on his gender, and we cannot put that on his race”
Similarly, a trans man was lured by a woman in New York and was tortured and murdered over the course of a month by multiple people. Totally not a hate crime though!
(The cops had been ignoring his family begging them to check in for months.)
from the wiki article on the murder
like what are you talking about