Of the three murder incidents involving race:

The black youths robbing and beating the 88 year-old man in Spokane, Washington—the motive here was robbery. Racism was secondary, and the perpetrators are going to pay for their crime. Justice is being done.

In Oklahoma, the black youths' shooting of the Australian jogger was racially motivated, judging from their internet activity, and apparently they shot him "for the fun of it!"??? And there, too, the perpetrators will pay for their crime.

In Florida, a white wannabe policeman (rejected twice by the police department) arms himself with a 9 mm. automatic, turns vigilante, and patrols the neighborhood, looking for trouble. He phones the police and reports a black youth in a hoodie who "looks like he's up to no good," (the black teenager is walking home from making a couple of purchases at a nearby convenience store). Then after being told by police to stay in his car and just watch until they get there, the vigilante gets out of his car, approaches the youth, and challenges him ("What are you doing here?"). There is a scuffle, and the vigilante shoots the teenager—who is "armed" with a package of candy and a paper cup containing iced tea.

And the white vigilante is exonerated, his gun is returned to him, and he is set free—possibly to do it again.

Yes, racism is the motivation for two of these murders:   the murder of the Australian jogger—and the murder of Trayvon Martin. But the prime motivation for the murder of the 88 year-old-man seems to be robbery rather than racism.

Don Firth