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Moderators: Can we please have a different link which attempts to provide more context?

Maybe a news article like https://www.wilx.com/content/news/MSU-Vice-President-of-rese... or https://statenews.com/article/2020/06/asmsu-advocates-call-t... or https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2020/06/15/mi...

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> Hsu sparked outrage again when he cited a 2019 study in a blog post concluding, "there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings."

(from link 1)

"no racial bias in police shootings" is something I've seen from a few studies. It all depends on how you define "racial bias", of course. (In other words, in a given situation police shootings seem to be even across races - but those situations are less common for non-hispanic whites and far less common for asians than for african americans)

care to tl;dr?

This is a very quick summary of the opinion he was fired for: https://youtu.be/XHUSl9FLAmE

His firing was called for here: https://twitter.com/GradEmpUnion/status/1270829003130261504

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