[UCANSEE2]

To answer the question in the title, RACE has nothing to do with it. Allegiance to a different country or military group other than the US is what has to do with it!

[annalex]

Race has to do with it precisely this:

Color of the skin is a characteristic that is useful in catching suspects. That is because bystanders can see the color of the skin, but they can't see foreign allegiances. So, when a suspicion falls on a certain skin color, the public needs to know that. If the suspicion is weak and leaves other possibilities, then the public should know that as well.

But this is not what happened. When a suspicion was on a white perpetrator, that was broadcast, and even amplified by the media. Donohue, for example, played a silly and gratuitous statement by a black lady saying, semi-jokingly, that the sniper must be white because she just knew it. (Donohue later admitted that airing it was a mistake). When the suspicion shifted to a black man, as this article proved it must have, that was not communicated to the public at all. This perverse adherence to political correctness cost lives.