Like I said, weird. I just opened the LA Times web site and clicked on the first story that involved crime on the front page, (written by a regular columnist), I lost count of how many times race or ethnicity is mentioned by the time I was half-way through it.
They don't pull any punches here laying out exactly who did what, and if race had anything to do with it, they report it. Frankly, race usually does not have a lot to do with crime. The suspect in the crime this thread is about would have probably shot anyone driving the car he was jacking, whether they were white/black/brown/red/yellow/etc.. Black on black crime is the most prevalent in black areas, simply because the potential victims are mostly black. The suspect in this case has neither a brain or a heart, so I doubt that a lot of thought went into it.
Here in L.A., the majority of our senseless crime seems to be committed by hispanics, simply because there are so many of them. It's the knee-jerk reaction to transfer one's rage against a crime and a criminal to the general group that they are from, but it's wrong morally and as a practical matter. I can smell that undercurrent here.
Read it and weep:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez9mar09,0,6362756.column