Elephants are in the room sometimes. In this case, the elephant in the room is the fact that these are black youth. The media will not report all of the facts if the facts reflect badly on officially recognized aggrieved groups.
The “child abuse” crisis in the Catholic Church is another example of this. A disproportionate number of victims were boys and young men. But the MSM did not want to report facts which could make it appear that there was a problem with homosexual priests. Instead, this issue is always referred to as child abuse in general terms, without specifying the inclinations of the perpetrators.
it’s mostly youths, but some are pretty old looking youths.