For comprehensive account of the incident(s) at Jena see the below link which will asnwer some of the questions.
No. There are no speech-related hate crimes in the United States.
Probably not but in countries such as Germany and Austria you could find yourself arrested and charged with a hate crime.
Death to Pigs, written in the crime scene, could mean that it was a hate crime.
That depends, if the process of burning a church down was hate motivated, then it qualifies as a hate crime.
police have confirmed this news. "Hate crimes are rising day by day."
No, not unless the federal interest is involved.
Hate Crime
noAdded: It depends on your motive. If you were Caucasion, Asian, or Hispanic, and called them the "N-word" and THEN hit them, you could conceivabley be charged.
Hate crime is not about who shoots who, but why someone gets shot. If a black man shoots a white only because he was white (or the other way around) or another bigoted reason like orientation or religion, then it can be a hate crime. Of course, these types of crimes are politically charged, and it may not be politically correct or expedient to prosecute them as such. Sometimes charging a member of a minority group with a crime against a member of a majority can inflame race relations, and politicians shy away from that.
The cast of Hate Crime - 1989 includes: Stefan Rudnicki as Narrator
DEFINITELY NOT! Hate is human nature, is it crime to hate animal cruelty?
It is going to have to be PROVEN that he was the one who committed it. It would help for him to have a good alibi or corroborating witnesses who can testify on his behalf against the evidence of the opposing side.