Why race not named in Zion shooting?

I turn your attention to your edition of the Herald of May 10. Two stories, one which was about the slaying of two police officers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and the other about the young kid killed in Zion by a police officer.

Both tragic in themselves, but what stood out the most to me as I was reading both articles was the complete lack of a description of the killers in the police officers death as being black, and the way you went out of your way to mention the race of both participants in the Zion shooting. Why is this? Why was there nary a word about the suspects in the Mississippi shooting being black, yet you bent over backward to mention not once or twice, but three times that it was a white cop that shot a black kid?

I feel as a reader of your paper that I am entitled to all the facts of a story, not just what you cherry pick and choose to let us know. This type of journalism does nothing to help us all move forward on issues of race. And believe me when I tell you this, I will be a heck of a lot more comfortable when you can just report a story without any mention of the race of the participants. But until that day, please do us all a favor and cut the bias.

Don Wise

Hampshire