I wonder if it would have been a story if a white kid helped him instead ?
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Quite possibly not. I know that a few years ago I stopped and did something dangerous to help a neighbor that didn’t know they needed help. No one said anything just like it didn’t make the news when Im sure many other Americans had done something similar that year. Just the other day I saw a national story about a guy that did the same thing. It was a real big deal, possibly because of where it happened or he was somehow special. He was “a hero”, here its just the right thing to do.