This reminds me of a murder case in Nashville which was sort of a reverse TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. In an upper middle class neighborhood Marcia Trimble disappeared while delivering Girl Scout cookies. A month later her body was found hidden in a garage. For years the police were convinced that it must have been a neighbor and at one point arrested a young White teen.
Years later a Black serial rapist/murderer was DNA-tied to the crime. He had been a handyman in that neighborhood, had a known criminal record, but was never an early suspect.
I noticed this attitude with the Jena 6 dustup. Six black men beat up on one white teenager so badly he winds up in the hospital, yet the media and everyone is crying about the “Jena 6”. Even some FReepers.