Ohio Executes Murderer: An Ohio habitual criminal who admitted he had been robbing gay men since he was 15, was executed late Tuesday for the brutal 1985 murder of a gay man in Cincinnati. Cameron Knight of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the three-drug execution protocol was carried out without incident. In February of 1985, Robert Van Hook met 25-year-old David Self in a Cincinnati bar popular with gays. Later the men went to Self's apartment, where his nearly-disemboweled body was discovered by a neighbor the next day. Van Hook's defense team did not dispute the murder, but claimed that it was caused by 'homosexual panic," and also argued that he had been sexually abused as a child. Anti-death penalty protesters gathered in Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Euclid, Mansfield and Toledo. The victim's family supported Van Hook's execution.
The Black Shootings Nobody Protests: Earlier this week we noted that after an armed black man reaching for his gun in Chicago was shot and killed by police, protesters appeared within minutes with signs, bottles of urine and lawyers to blame the shooting of Harith Augustus on racial bias. Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald reports that while officer-involved shootings are a minute fraction of Chicago's ongoing
carnage--in 2016, they made up 0.5 percent of all shootings in the city, those are the only shootings that Black Lives Matter and other race-baiting groups care about.
The foot patrol that accosted Augustus was in the neighborhood--the CPD's
Third District--because the local alderman, residents, and business
owners had requested greater police protection. The area had seen an
increase in open-air drug deals. So far this year, there have been 69
shootings in the Third District, a little under a dozen a month, 15 of
them fatal.
Of course, those who complain about "racism" with respect to the shooting probably don't care about the mother subjected to the pistol-whipping while being called a "white bitch."
Maybe the difference in protests has something to do with the fact that murders perpetrated by civilians are prosecuted while those by police are not?
Maybe it has something to do with the very different way that police treat blacks and whites who are armed?
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The claim that there is systemic racial bias in police shootings is false. A 2016 study by a Harvard professor found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings, despite finding that officers were more likely to have physical interactions with non-whites over whites. Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/11/no-racial-bias-police-shootings-study-harvard-prof/) reports that Harvard economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr.'s study for the national Bureau of Economic Research, "An Empirical Research Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force," collected data from 10 large police departments in six Texas cities, three Florida counties and Los Angeles County, as well as New York City's Stop, Question and Frisk program. After examination of thousands of incidents, the study concluded that, while blacks and Hispanics were 50% more likely to experience physical interactions with police, such as touching, pushing and drawing weapons, there was no greater likelihood of officers shooting non-whites than whites after factoring in extenuating circumstances. The paper supports an earlier study conducted by Washington State University that found officers in simulation tests were actually less likely to shoot at blacks than whites, and also challenges the Black Lives Matter narrative that police are racists targeting blacks for shootings.