The last line of the article gives you the hint on the crowd’s ethnicity. The passenger’s name hints as to the ethnicity of the occupants of the vehicle. Whites aren’t the only group people of that ethnicity (the crowd) have enmity with. Articles with this sort of omission are more of a case of not bringing up inconvenient statistics or reminders of statistics that might affect the perception of certain hyphenated Americans.
(wow, is it hard to write without mentioning specifics).
Interesting how the news media has to talk in code in order to convey the entire story. And only people who have lived in Texas know what Juneteenth is, so it is coded code, at that.