re: #224 wrenchwench

There’s the part that it may have played in his head, and there’s the part that it may have played in his arrest, trial, and jury verdict. The latter is the more significant, but more difficult to present to PA as my ‘best evidence it was race’.

Yeah. I think there’s often a tendency in these cases to apply the institutional racism of the system to the accused. You could be a perfectly non-racist dude who committed a crime against a black person, and you’d still benefit from the institutional racism of the legal system.

Edit: And Goetz actually had been attacked before, it wasn’t a theoretical thing for him.