Perry County jury finds white man guilty of assaulting Black neighbor, rejects racist motivations

Sep 28, 2021

NEW LEXINGTON ⁠— Sometimes justice rings hollow.

Other times it feels like a polarizing witch hunt.

For some it's simply the best you could hope for, given the circumstances.

After a two-day trial, a jury in Perry County found Joseph McCabe, a white man accused of fighting his Black neighbor, Leon Davis, guilty of assault.

Davis, who testified that the attack was racist, was furious that the jury disputed the additional misdemeanor charges leveled against McCabe: one count each of aggravated menacing and ethnic intimidation, Ohio’s sole hate crime statute.

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