Is anyone else old enough to remember George Gwaltney -- (This is about Rittenhouse.)

[Ocelot II]

12. That's true, but according to the only federal criminal civil rights statute

that would apply, 18 USC 249, the hate crimes statute (the others all relate to government actors such as police), it is unlawful "to willfully cause bodily injury or attempt to do so with fire, firearm, or other dangerous weapon when 1) the crime was committed because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin of any person, or 2) the crime was committed because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person and the crime affected interstate or foreign commerce or occurred within federal special maritime and territorial jurisdiction."

It might be a stretch to try to prosecute him under this statute since his victims were all white, even though the underlying protest related to the shooting of a black man by the police.