How Is This Appalling, Racist Harassment in Virginia Beach NOT Considered a Hate Crime?

It’s just mind boggling and appalling that this is happening, and also that local authorities claim they can’t do anything about it. Isn’t this basically the definition of a hate crime, per Virginia code?

“‘Hate crime’ means (i) a criminal act committed against a person or his property with the specific intent of instilling fear or intimidation in the individual against whom the act is perpetrated because of race, religion, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or ethnic or national origin or that is committed for the purpose of restraining that person from exercising his rights under the Constitution or laws of the Commonwealth or of the United States; (ii) any illegal act directed against any persons or their property because of those persons’ race, religion, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or ethnic or national origin; and (iii) all other incidents, as determined by law-enforcement authorities, intended to intimidate or harass any individual or group because of race, religion, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or ethnic or national origin.”

This is in Virginia Beach. A Black family with children is being abused by a racist neighbor who plays this recording screaming the N-word & making monkey noises every time the Black family leaves the house.😳

Police say they can’t do anything about it😐
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— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) October 5, 2021

https://twitter.com/SonnyinSeattle_/status/1445483441022062594

Every time this black family enters or leaves their home in Virginia Beach, neighbor John Michael Eskildsen’s motion sensors trigger a amplified string of racial epithets. Police say there is nothing they can do. https://t.co/fnhvr6gQXQ

— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 6, 2021