[Jeff Higgins]

In a very recent case here in Seattle, an elderly gentleman was out watering his garden that he had planted in the middle circle of a traffic roundabout. His hose was running accross the road, and apparently he was trying to pullit back, or whatever. Some one in a car got angry because they felt they were being delayed. A young man (either getting out of a car, or passing by - I'm not clear on this) clocks this older man, knocking him to the ground, killing him.

Police knew from witnesses who the young man (who fled) was. They asked for help in finding him. Only one news source that I saw published a photo of him. The rest only listed his name. Other than that one news source, none mentioned the race of the attacker or of the victim. You have probably guessed by now that the attacker was black and the victim was white. Had the roles been reversed, I'm relatively sure the races would have been mentioned and the photo would have been widely published and aired.

I wonder if the prosecutor will add "hate crime" to the charges. Typically, when it is black (or any minority) on white violence, these charges are not added. There have been a couple of other infamous cases accross the nation recently of black on white murder or assault where they were not filed. Wonder why.