You have to be purposefully ignoring the reality of current events in the USA to take your position unfortunately. Have you looked at how much more aggressively police have been targeting people of color during these protests? Your view only makes sense in a truly equal world. We are not in that world.

> but I just can't imagine the thought process behind 'and the bullets avoid white / asian NYT reporters and crew members and specifically target the ones with melanin above a certain level'.

Bullets don't fly on their own accord. Someone aims them.

That is a serious accusation. What evidence do you have that this hypothetical you are constructing has any bearing to reality? I remember a time when 'innocent until proven guilty' was a guiding principle of public conversation. These days we gleefully accuse people of hypothetical crimes. How about we stop doing that?

> I remember a time when 'innocent until proven guilty' was a guiding principle of public conversation

It's a guiding principle of jurisprudence, not conversation. Don't be so pompous as to think the level of your discourse rises to that of a court proceeding.

I did not make any accusation. I was clarifying the position of the people who's thought process you "couldn't imagine".

Now you can.