Exactly, there needs to be a crime before the 'hate' part can be attached to it, but it's clear from other incidents that the police don't let that important detail ruin their fun of bullying and intimidating people who have done nothing wrong.
Saying someone looks like your nana who is a lesbian is not a crime. Some bullying dickhead on a power trip getting offended by the word lesbian doesn't make it a crime either.
People are saying the police had just brought the girl home after she'd been missing? If that's true, imagine if the girl was just telling her mum that because she'd felt safe with the officer because she reminded her of her nan, only to then be cornered and dragged out of her house by six coppers because of it.
You'd have thought the police would be trained in how to deal with autistic teens in meltdown
They must have been busy out walking blokes dressed in bondage gear on dog leads or something on that day of training, Datun.