8 (black) Albany Middle School football players charged after locker room attack on (white) teammate

Walb TV ^ | 10/2/2016 | Ashanti Isaac

[Nifty]

When asked about the racial dynamics of the incident, Conley confirmed that the eight suspects are Black and the victim is white, but noted investigators have uncovered no evidence pointing to a hate crime.

[Nifty]

Dougherty County School System Police Chief Troy Conley is black.

[madison10]

If course, it is a hate crime. Why wouldn’t it be?

[LouAvul]

No evidence it was a hate crime? What more evidence do they want? White guys wearing klan costumes? Cause back in the 30s, those guys skated too.

[Bubba_Leroy]

It’s just a coincidence and you are racist for noticing it.

[Feckless]

White on Black - Hate Crime
Black on White - Random Violence

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Disambiguator]

Please note the capitalization pattern.

[Carl Vehse]

Why does the WALB News report capitalize “Black”, but does not capitalize “white”?

There should be consistency in either capitalizing both or neither.

[BenLurkin]

Black gets capitalized but white does not.

Nope. No bias there.

[Jeff Chandler]

But TV shows and movies taught me it was the other way around.

[vpintheak]

Pinko commies and their bigotry of low expectations, in effect.
The racist players were absolutely doing it because he was white. 100% guarantee it.

[TangoLimaSierra]

If they don't want admit this was a hate crime, they should at least call it a cowardly attack.
8 on 1. Pussies.

[Texas Eagle]

Are there going to be 8 GoFundMe accounts or will they all share one?

[real saxophonist]

Pronounced “Awl-Binny.” That was the Big City when I lived in Americus.

[BubbaJunebug]

Albany Ga is 65% black

[Verginius Rufus]

Albany, Georgia, not Albany, New York.

[NorthMountain]

the eight suspects are Black and the victim is white

Just makes me fury-ous ...

And I'm really tired of the "B" and the "w" ..."Black" is not a proper noun. It's a color.

[NorthMountain]

Why does the WALB News report capitalize

Because they're race-bigots and cowards. They hate "white" people; they bow and grovel before "black" people.

[1FreeAmerican]

I use the Scott Adams rule.

The demographics in my county do not even have AA or black as a category.

[Leaning Right]

School police have two missions:

#1 Hush up crime so as to make the district look good.
#2 Never forget the first mission.

Notice that staff and student safety is not a priority.

I’m a retired urban public school teacher. In my district, it was a firing offense to dial 911 while on campus. We had to call the school police. See above for the reason why.