MSU prof Forced To Resign Over Study Finding No Racial Bias In Police Shootings

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East Lansing, MI – Physicist Stephen Hsu has been forced out of his role as vice president of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University (MSU) after he promoted 2019 study that found there to be no racial bias in incidents of officer-involved shootings.

“The [Graduate Employees Union] alleged that I am a racist because I interviewed MSU Psychology professor Joe Cesario, who studies police shootings,” Hsu wrote in a blog post on Saturday. “But Cesario’s work…is essential to understanding deadly force and how to improve policing.”

Critics took particular exception to a line Hsu quoted from the study when discussing it in his blog.

“We found that the race of the officer doesn’t matter when it comes to predicting whether black or white citizens are shot,” the study concluded, according to The College Fix.

Cesario’s work argued that “contrary to activist claims and media reports, there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings,” Hsu wrote in his blog.

On June 3, the Wall Street Journal published and opinion piece titled, “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism,” which cited Cesario’s study, The College Fix reported.

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