• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If he saw a white man, well, he probably wouldn’t have shot, but he wouldn’t have said a ‘large white man’ if he had to describe it.

    He’s explaining why he was scared, and felt “black” was an apt word to include in an explanation is telling.

    Dude had a gut reaction to a strange person, in large part, by his own wording, because they were black. It’s pertinent.

    I get it, sometimes the media does inject race of victim selectively when it might not be relevant. There was a shooting death in my area recently, and the story was lamenting about black on black violence, when a story almost exactly like it played out between white people a little while back and race wasn’t cited. But here, it’s pretty core to the story.