Funny, that's almost exactly what the New York Times said:
Mr. Babbitt was walking through Union Square near Forbidden Planet last Wednesday when he was punched in the face seemingly at random by an assailant who, the police said, declared his intention to “punch the first white man I see.”...
In a neighborhood that had long ago moved past its rough-and-tumble days, the seemingly random act of violence at 3 p.m. in a bustling park came as a shock.
I added the boldface.
These days it is impossible to parody the left. They are always worse than we imagine them to be.
It’s weird, they use , “hate crime,” in the headline, but they don’t use the word, “hate crime,” in the article. I wonder if their style guide allows something in the headline, not referred to in the article?