On Wednesday, a White man pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to murder as a hate crime & terrorism charges for killing Timothy Caughman, because he was Black, in the hope that the attack would incite a "race war."
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In others he is described as a "homeless black man."
Family and friends always showed up for the court appearances of the man who killed him.
He was very active on social media.
It would have taken minimal effort for the media to learn who Mr. Caughman was.
But to the media he was either a "black man" killed while rifling through trash or a "homeless black man."
He was a college graduate from Brooklyn.
For a few years he ran a local branch of the Neighborhood Youth Corp, a program to give low income young people work experience.
He took particular pride in the election of President Obama.