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49 49  On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson fatally shot five Dallas police officers, injuring nine more. He explicitly told negotiators that he "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers: {{footnote}}Dallas Shooting Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson Had Rifles, Bombmaking Materials in His Home, Police Say. https://abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-shooting-suspect-wanted-kill-white-people-white/story?id=40431306{{/footnote}}
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51 51  Despite this clear racial motive:
52 +- No federal hate crime was pursued
52 52  - Headlines ignored the racial component entirely
53 -- Wikipedia’s article has over 100 references — **none** mention race in the headline. You may think this is hyperbolic, but its not.
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54 +- Wikipedia’s article has over 100 references — **none** mention race in the headline
56 56  - Media framing emphasized Johnson’s mental state, military background, and frustration over “social injustice”
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58 58  This is a textbook example of hate crime **reclassification through omission** — a crime that met every standard for racial bias but was **deliberately stripped of that framing** because the victims were White.
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