Reuters tweet on Tyree King the 13 year-old who pointed an extremely realistic looking BB gun at a police officer, and got—predictably and deservedly—shot dead:

White Ohio police officer shoots black 13-year-old boy armed with BB gun https://t.co/qkAK3EYOGq pic.twitter.com/8f89tXppod — Reuters (@Reuters) September 15, 2016

The gun, according to police, is the 40 X P Umarex BB Gun, $49.97 at Wal-Martl

Police: BB gun of teen killed by cop looked like firearm, Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY,September 15, 2016

FATAL POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTING:This is a replica of the 13yo suspects gun used in last night's armed robbery. #CPD pic.twitter.com/vKjlwYCKuY — Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) September 15, 2016

The gun is extremely realistic, and the reason it's not required to have those orange "this is not a gun" tips that children's toys now have is because it's actually sort of a deadly weapon. The adults in the Christmas Story movie who kept saying "You'll shoot your eye out" weren't totally wrong, although even if the deceased teenager had been quicker and a crack shot, he'd have been lucky to do more than blind or disfigure the policeman who shot him.

However, let that be. I just want you to compare that racially informative headline with this one:

The "Mississippi Man" is Rodney Earl Sanders. He's a black Mississippi man. The nuns were white nuns:

So why doesn't the headline say so? Possibly there are some people Reuters is willing to whip into a frenzy of hate, and some people they want kept in ignorance.