Oh come now, every other commenter spoke about race, the ARTICLE spoke about race-  this has BEEN about race long before I ever touched a keyboard.
Of course it is about race. 

And how can THIS topic ever be about anything BUT race. You're defending protests against a tiny fraction of all murders - rather than against murder per se - when the only thing that sets this tiny fraction appart from all other murders is that the victims are mostly white. That's racist by itself, regardless of whether you ever used (or even thought about) race. Race is the only differentiator here - and you're differentiating so it's impossible that you are NOT differentiating based on race.