Inquiring Minds @ MyFoxAustin

Couldn't help but get miffed at reading an article online about the domestic dispute last night that resulted in the officer shooting one involved in the traumatic event, and wondering what was the purpose of the sentence, "Buchman said the officer is white and the suspect is a Hispanic man." as the first sentence in the next to last paragraph of the article. What does that have to do with the price of beans in China???

(1) Domestic violence knows no boundaries of classes, ethnicity, etc.

(2) Police officers aren't going to sit back and wonder what the ethnicity of the person is when he heard "“what he believed to be a round being chambered into a weapon,” on the other side of the door. Buchman said that when the officer moved away from the door, the man came out of the house, shooting."

What is the editor thinking when they proofed the article for publishing? They could have put in the article that, for instance (emphasis used only to show the insert):

"A hispanic man who shot at a police officer in Northeast Austin after police responded to a domestic dispute is undergoing surgery this morning after being hit by the officer’s return fire, an Austin police spokesman said."

However, what does that do to truly improve the article??? If the suspect ran away, they could state that they were looking for "a 43 year old, hispanic, male", for instance, since that would be essential to the description of the man.

I just don't think it was necessary to seemingly make an issue of the ethnicities by bringing it into focus like a sore thumb. It means nothing and the editor should have taken that out of the article on the domestic dispute event last night.

~ Being a bit disappointed in the quality of the article

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