I'd hazard a guess, though, that what's going on there has absolutely nothing to do with racism, as commonly understood. And as Herbert would have everybody believe.
Instead, it was a community revulsion against casual disrespect for both the law and community standards, in general, and against teenage drug use, in particular.
That most of the perps were black was coincidental. It wasn't their skin color that got them in trouble, it was what they were doing (or other people were doing around them).
Still, it's a gross miscarriage of justice and a blot on the Swisher County escutcheon.