White Indiana woman viciously beats black meter reader for pepper-spraying her dogs

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35. But your speculation is, at best, premature

All kinds of factors "may" have played a role in the assailant's motivation, but at this point we have no basis to focus any one of them. We know that the reader pepper-sprayed the dogs, and we know that the assailant beat her.

The fact is, it may...or may not.

Right--and the "journalist" opted to err on the side of sensationalism before the facts are known.

I'm telling you why it's interesting from my perspective and why saying the meter reader's race had "nothing to do with the story is, itself, an unsupportable assumption.

I'm assuming nothing; I'm stating a fact. At this point, with the information available to us, we have no basis to make any statements about race as a factor, and it is therefore entirely legitimate to question the "journalist's" intent in foregrounding the participants' race.

If you were to run over a pedestrian with your car by accident, would it be relevant for the news article to begin with a declaration of your race and the victim's? Would race be relevant if you ran over the pedestrian because she keyed your car?