It was an awful story: Two teenagers out joyriding deliberately slammed into Andreas Probst while he was riding a bicycle, killing him. That already spoke to a broken youth culture. However, as the story has unfolded, we’ve seen the racial politics that lie behind Probst’s horrible death in the media coverage, the criminal justice system’s racial lies, and the story of the teens’ lives.
Jack Cashill wrote about the facts of the accident, describing both the details of the video that one of the killers proudly posted on social media and the media’s hands-off policy because it was obvious from the video that at least one of the teens was a minority.
Eventually, however, when the video caused a public outcry, the Las Vegas prosecutor announced that the killers would be tried as adults. Once that happened, no media outlet showed the killers’ mugshots. That’s a trend among media outlets, lest people get the “wrong” idea about the racial dynamics of crime in America.