A police officer paid for a family's Christmas groceries instead of charging two women with shoplift

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11. The article never mentioned race because

We live in a society where white is assumed. The only time anyone’s race is specified in news reports are Black and other POC. Unless white people are killing Black folk or acting overtly racist. It is not race-baiting to note the absence of race, but it is racist to assume anything in the US exists in a race-neutral context.

Edited to add: the cop didn’t need to expressly think it. That’s the insidious nature of system racism. I’m not saying this cop would have emptied a can of whoop-ass on a Black shoplifter, but I bet the encounter would have gone MUCH differently if the family was Black.