I don't really get into the whole "hate crime" deal because the government gets to decide what is or isn't a "hate" crime. Which, of course, is patently unfair because the penalties are different. For example, crimes against those in the LGBT community are almost never prosecuted as hate crimes when we all know better than that. I don't mean to make light of anyone losing their life at the hands of anyone else. I just took issue with the way that you worded your original post saying that those two men getting killed were highlighted in the news for political reasons, as if those cats getting murdered by police is somehow not newsworthy.