"To be clear, the shooting death of Ms. Damond is ostensibly not about race. It appears to be a very unfortunate set of events where a skittish police officer was startled and used deadly force on an individual he did not see."

I don't know how to respond to this except to say that it appears to me the author is attempting to trivialize a set of facts that's inconsistent with the politically correct narrative that's dominated coverage of other recent police-involved shootings. Just as much as one can argue that the Damond shooting is the result of unfortunate events, which on the face of it I accept, could the same not be argued of almost any other police shooting, at least until the actual circumstances are investigated? Except that doesn't fit the fashionable politically correct activist narrative.