[Pseudoscience-is-malarkey (OP)]

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[alancalverd]

I guess it depends on the journalistic value of the victim. In a society that is 90% white but in all other senses random, the probability of selling newspapers or TV advertising  based on the presumed public profile of the victim or the gruesomness of his killing,  is strongly in favor of the victim being white. If you multiply by a nonrandomness factor such as the fact that the richest members of society tend to be white, and given that you have to sell your TV advertising slot on the basis of only one murder trial (newspapers can accommodate more, but the most expensive adverts are on Page 1) the likelihood of today's favored victim being black is very small.

[Petrochemicals]

In my opinion the stranger the event the more attention, you don't hear about most murders especially if they are fairly common, where as if someone is murdered in a posh area where murder is rare it gets more of a mention. Why did Raoul Moat garner such attention?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/17/risk-in-england-and-wales-much-higher-for-black-people