Sentences with phrase «of racial animus»

The Wall Street Journal Blog has a great post about the fatal blow to the murder charge — the fact that there was never any evidence of racial animus, which under the charge brought was a key element.

In sentencing him to 18 months of unsupervised probation, the judge said the seriousness of the offense was mitigated by Finneran's lack of evil motive, absence of racial animus, long career in public service, community service and exemplary private life.

Not exact matches

Around 9 p.m. on a steamy black Friday night in the center of a street intersection, a bulky black protester with swinging dreads named Malik Peay roared a ferocious parable that echoed throughout an assembled crowd of protesters teetering between emotional pain and racial animus.

Dietl was quite focused on the similarities in the actual physical of the two women, viewing that similarity as explaining his comment and supporting his assertion of lacking any racial animus in his comment.

Outwardly, the two men are on different sides of a great racial divide that stems not only from personal animus (though there is plenty of that to go around), but also from an entrenched system of social, psychological and economic oppression.

During a week in which the court's normal workings were overshadowed by the illness of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the justices also let stand a lower - court ruling against a former school principal from Missouri who claimed her firing was motivated in part by racial animus.

The events came one day after the inauguration of a U.S. president who brazenly exploited racial animus, misogyny and xenophobia, all while stashing corporatist ambitions under the rug, in a discordant election campaign that saw him lose the popular vote by a substantial margin.

When the defense has a parade of witnesses supporting the defendant's lack of racial bias, and the prosecution has no evidence of animus, it seems quite clear that the charge was never supported.

They say stuff about him hating black people and, really, what's the probative value of that in a case where the defendant had no apparent motive other than racial animus?

Allegations of misconduct by senior staff continue to dog Fox News after three women filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming they were subject to «appalling discrimination» and «years - long relentless racial animus» at the hands of a former executive at the news company.

An accusation of «racial animus» from Bill Cosby's defense team against the prosecution halted the third day of jury selection for the comedian's sexual assault trial for nearly three hours.

The court also found that there were no facts demonstrating any racial animus by the Property Manager and the Homeowner's Association against the Homeowners in any of their actions.