[Nea Wood]

I’ve always kinda wondered what the point of that was?

When it's a negative story like this, the station is saying, "See? We're not racist by showing footage of someone of such-and-such race/ethnicity behaving badly. Look! We hired a reporter of that same race/ethnicity! And this shows they're not all bad!"

[DemforBush]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!