By Selwyn Duke

Did you hear about the white cops indicted in Freddie Gray’s death? You likely did.

Did my opening question cause you to take exception? It likely didn’t — but it should have.

Because half the officers (shown) charged in Baltimore drug dealer Freddie Gray’s April 12 death are black.

Yet in a case all about race — with the chant and hashtag “Black Lives Matter” and with vows to attack white police officers — this racial fact has been conspicuously absent from most reportage. But given that the Gray story has been a white/black thing, isn’t the knowledge that his arrest was actually a black/white/black thing relevant to it? Might this knowledge have quelled at least a bit of the racial unrest and perhaps saved some property and people from an ill fate in Baltimore? Could the omission of this fact be seen as an attempt to rub resentments raw?

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