In the past year, newspapers and television stations have been purposefully and deliberately redacting the race of any non-white perpetrators of crimes from the descriptions in their stories.
For instance, police might describe as suspect as a “Black Male, approximately 6’0’’ with short dark hair, average build and wearing a gray t-shirt.” The media will rewrite the descriptors in the story and the PC version will read: “Police say the man was described as a man in his mid-thirties, 5’11”-6’0” in height, with and average build, short hair, and wearing a gray t-shirt.”
Even where there is video, the media will describe the perpetrators as “teens” or “individuals” or “a male” so long as the suspect is non-white.
PC must prevail over public safety.
PC in describing minority suspects has been going on for decades.