sunny-dave - // re we now in the ridiculous situation where if I hoot at a black person for dawdling then it can be a hate crime, but if the positions are exactly reversed and they hoot at me it cannot be a hate crime?
If that is true then "The Law is an Ass". //
As I understand it, you have exactly the same recourse to this badly worded law, for exactly the same reasons, so if you want to go ahead and see something that isn't there, this bad law will support you.