Both trials involved at least one black or Hispanic defendant charged with attacking a white victim.
In particular the actions of racist police personnel towards white victims have attracted media attention.
In the Zebra case more than a dozen white victims were slain at random within a few months.
Their decision to help only white victims of Katrina has been described as "reprehensible".
Also, as with the plague, we are more concerned with white victims.
Six of those nine were minorities accused of crimes against white victims.
Others said that the continued investigation of a rich, white victim's death showed that race and class influence the justice system.
Their six names are carved below the names of the 66 white victims on the monument's base.
Black men are disproportionately represented on death row, while almost all capital cases involve white victims.
Second post, here come the poor white victims of racism.