News from Boston:

A Boston firefighter is mending from what could have been deadly stab wounds he suffered early yesterday morning when he was allegedly jumped in East Boston while off duty by a group of Hispanic males who told him they “don’t want any gringo here.”

Though police are not classifying the incident as racially fueled, the Boston Police Department’s Community Disorders Unit is investigating.

Not classifying it as racially fueled? What more would they need to have done to show that it was racially fueled? Stuff like this is the other reason I oppose “hate crime” laws: politically subjective enforcement. The main reason, of course, is that either the crime is already a crime (e.g., a stabbing) or it is an Orwellian speech code (e.g., the folks at NC State who want to prosecute someone for making a noose out of toilet paper).