Race & News Reporting

While reading the article about the recent school shooting in Cleveland, I was surprised to see the way they described the shooter. The article reads "Coon, who is white," stood out among his peers, as 85% of the students at his school were white. Then it goes on to describe him as a gothic, Marylin Manson-worshiping freak. Im not sure how this ethnic classification can be justified, but I think the important thing that should have gotten more attention were the outward red-flag signs that Coon displayed. He wore all black, had black nails, trench coat, gloves, chains, and openly considere Marylin Manson his god...hello, can we say Columbine! Not to mention his less than clean record, family history, and mental conditions. These signs should have at least raised some eyebrows and should have been monitored more closely. His race however, in my opinion, seems irrelevant to the story.