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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2675)	10/30/2002 9:44:07 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 2746

This blows to hell the convenient stereotype of the "angry white male". What a blow to journalists. They'll have to stick to "evil" weapons and "killing platform" cars. Apologies offered to non-yellow journalists, both of you.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (2675)	10/31/2002 3:54:04 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2746

Hi GROUND ZERO; Re: "Could you imagine the incredible flack law enforcement agencies and profilers would have received if they profiled a black person to be the shooter?" It's easier to get away with serial killing if you're white cause, in general, you blend in better with the rest of the population. So that's the guess to make if you play the game by the numbers. But there are exceptions, and the authorities do profile black men as serial killers. For example: ... Early in the Atlanta Child Murders case, in which as many as 29 African-American boys were killed during the late '70s, authorities focused on white supremacists. But Keppel, then-FBI profiler John Douglas, and other experts felt the killer had to be black, someone who could calmly stroll the neighborhoods without being noticed. ... corpus-delicti.com Here's an article on the case that seems fairly balanced: crimelibrary.com -- Carl