City She’s White!
The woman who killed Officer Joselito “Lito” Barber, Mary Jane Rivas, is white. Black Americans in King County can breath a sigh of relief. And, yes, it does make a big difference. The story is now only about the crime itself, and not about race and crime, or the Central District, race, and crime. It could be about class and crime, but most whites have no idea that a class system exists in their own country, so it will just have to be about the crime, about the failure of the justice system, about liberal politicians being soft on criminals, and so on and so forth.
Maybe it should be about cops spending too much time beating up bicyclists and low-level drug dealers, meanwhile letting $60,000 SUVs speed with impunity.