111. Under the hate crime law, the prosecutor then asked the trial judge to find that the crime had been motivated by racial bias. 112. Vrooman is apparently the first investigator in the case to raise the issue of racial bias publicly, though some Chinese-American rights groups had done so previously. 113. Vrooman is apparently the first investigator in the case to publicly raise the issue of racial bias, though some Chinese American rights groups had done so previously. 114. When an ANC official allegedly charged that racial bias lay behind the conviction of a well-known figure, Allan Boesak, for corruption, many voices criticized him. 115. White House drug czar Lee Brown recently stated that crack-cocaine mandatory sentences primarily affect African-Americans, thus adding a racial bias to federal drug laws. 116. Without these state statistics, the problem of racial bias in the treatment of juvenile offenders would have been impossible to quantify or even define properly. 117. Worries about racial bias in its application are far from groundless. 118. Yet racial bias in the federal system is worse than it is in most states. 119. Police did arrest four other students and questioned seven other teens Friday in the alleged plot, which White said may have been motivated by racial bias. 120. Racial bias also played a role in the executions, the report said. |