Yep, that story is accurate, insofar as it goes. That racial polarization happened AFTER the professional race relations groups got hold of the story.

It had all of the elements that make good news copy or cinema. Even better, as Tankdriver demonstrated, we all have a preconceived notion as to how people think, even if we don't know them.

Let's say your boy did a dumb, extremely violent thing and you are searching for an explanation as to how he could have done it. Somebody suggests that it is not his fault at all -- that it was in fact, the victim's fault. And lays-out an alternative explanation that fits the facts. Given the actual long-term history of the area, what would you do?

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