It gets even more hilarious if you read the story:
"Prosecutor Karuna Ramakrishnan had tried to put Crowchief behind bars for 12 to 15 months by arguing that the indigenous woman's "unprovoked" actions represented a hate crime, the paper reported. But Judge Harry Van Harten of the provincial court strongly disagreed."
So you have a Punjabi Canadian lawyer arguing that it was a hate crime on the behalf of the Canadian government and the White Canadian judge disagreeing with it.
It gets even more hilarious if you read the story:
"Prosecutor Karuna Ramakrishnan had tried to put Crowchief behind bars for 12 to 15 months by arguing that the indigenous woman's "unprovoked" actions represented a hate crime, the paper reported. But Judge Harry Van Harten of the provincial court strongly disagreed."
So you have a Punjabi Canadian lawyer saying arguing that it was a hate crime on the behalf of the Canadian government and the White Canadian judge disagreeing with it.