""You can't ask perpetrators what they think," one expert said. "That's not how we determine whether something is or isn't a hate crime.""

My god NBC, get some coherent "experts".

This story is so execrable to a rational reader they might pull it so:

https://archive.ph/ENuFi https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPxUKTcDczePxxyg6nMKdojRVCdUodPi2UvS8KMfqbbgb?filename=suspect-atlanta-area-attacks-said-they-weren-t-racially-motivated-n1261434