I'll admit that I've wondered about a number of cases.
Even so, I'm hesitant to assign racial motive to killings absent clear evidence. I don't like it when every white on black shooting (good, bad, or indifferent) is interpreted as racial violence, and I don't want to go down the path of doing the same thing when the colors are reversed.
What a reasonable position! I'm sure someone will be along shortly to explain how not stooping to the level of those you oppose is unilateral surrender / cultural suicide / preemptive capitulation.
There's reasonable doubt, and then there's pulling the wool over your own eyes.
As I'm still fairly certain that the murdered 5 year old child in North Carolina, Cannon Hinnant, was murdered for being white, I just did some digging to get updates to the case.
Nothing. After a few media outlets covered it, there has been zero news for a month. SHOCKINGLY, the police have not made any announcements about motive.
It's funny, I'd think a broad-daylight, execution style murder of a 5 year old child might get at least a few follow ups as to the cause. There has been zero stories in the news for a month.
"They arrested the criminal! That should be all we care about!"
No, I'd kind of like to know WHY. "He was on drugs!" isn't a motive. It's a partial explanation for impulses and lack of impulse control, but even drugged out people have motives.
Nothing has been said except "We don't think it was racist." Oh, WELL, since there's absolutely no pressure to find that black murderers of white people aren't racist, then I'm sure that's enough.