White House: Too Early to Tell if Chicago Beating Was a Hate Crime

‘I know that local law enforcement officials are investigating this matter’

CORKE: "Did it rise to the level of a hate crime, in your opinion?"    
EARNEST: "I think it's too early to tell. I certainly don't want to predict where the investigation would lead. I think our expectation would be that the local law enforcement would follow the facts and I wouldn't speculate at this point about to what degree federal officials would get involved for considering those kinds of crimes. Obviously, a decision by the Department of Justice to investigate a matter like this is something that is a decision that they would have to make alone."     
 

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