No should be charged with a hate crime, now or ever.
“Hate crimes” are blasphemy against Liberty, Freedom of Speech and Equality under the Law, perpetrated by Authoritarians that want to limit the people’s capacity for free thought and free speech.
Nothing should matter except the crime. What the perp was thinking when committed it should be irrelevant.
Actually, what the perp was thinking is relevant....at sentencing. Not at any other time before then.