I listened to this unfold on Los Angeles station KFI last Friday. Nice to see AP is on top of the story.
Looks to me like the Los Angeles power structure is pulling on every lever in an effort to get this labeled as something other than a ‘hate crime’, which would expose that Hispanic gangs are deliberately targeting innocent Blacks. The last thing the local politicians want to do is have to answer questions about what they’re going to do about that.
If you acknowledge that racism is involved with brown vs black incidnets then the whole notion that only whites are genetically racist goes down in flames. Then all affirmative action programs’ raison d’etre under goe an massive paradigm shift! The whole make whitey feel guilt so we can shake him down movement goes down in flames. Whitey can’t pay no reparations if whitey also has to give the southwest back to Mexico.
This incident has legs and I’ll bet it will be one of the flashpoints that brings the whole Latino vs. Black racism issue to a head this summer...just in time for Denver!