" most onlookers blamed prosecutorial overreach — that the government stretched its case too far to fit the events at the refuge "
Ironically this verdict does indirectly relate to race. Feds overcharged these perps because they were white (and because of the drooling sadists screaming and dissapointed that the Feds hadn't gone in guns blazing like Ruby Ridge), and jury tossed it because crime obviously did not fit the charges.