Most of the news reports surrounding the arrest of a man for killing a 17 year old girl in Virginia do mention that the girl was a Muslim returning from a Ramadan event but they don’t mention that the man was an illegal immigrant from Salvador. They do mention that the crime is being treated as a road rage incident but they don’t say what sparked the incident.
Here’s my question: what’s relevant? I think that the girl was a Muslim is probably irrelevant if it was road rage but that the man’s immigration status was relevant because of the very high rate at which illegal immigrants commit crimes in the United States, particularly homicide. I can see reasonable arguments that both facts were relevant or that neither were.
I find that the reporting of this incident highlights how news reporting, even the reporting of local news, is being slanted to promote, even unintentionally, a political agenda.
Neither one should have been here.