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Originally Posted by Zarley
It's like the news media decides to occasionally latch onto one of these things as a major info-tainment event.
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"Because" would have been a better word than "like" to use.
You can just picture the conversation when the intern found the story.
"Hey boss, a black teen has been shot by an adult male pleading self-defense"
"So?"
"The man who shot him wasn't black."
"He was white? We've got ourselves a story!"
"Well he wasn't white either, he identifies himself as Hispanic"
"White Hispanic works for me, go have Frank edit the 911 call to make him seem like a racist. Everyone loves a racist story."