Blame the media for their conservative/racist leanings. I hadn't heard much if anything about other similar cases until this happened. And I sure hadn't seen a video of those incidents.

There's an undeniable racial component, yeah, but there's also the very real fact that those suffering past abuses were broadly in a different category from the majority of ordinary (white and white passing) American citizens, creating the illusion that they themselves were safe, or could choose to be safe by keeping their heads down.

As soon as the victim is in a position that you yourself could easily find yourself in (like dropping your kid off at school in a residential area), and you can imagine that you might make the same choices (like trying to leave a dangerous situation safely), your own safety is under direct threat.

A lot of people were sad, angry and outraged before, but now they're scared.

The outcry is still limited because the woman shot appears to be in a gay relationship (a lady declaring herself as her wife was on scene at the murder).

So most conservatives are still unable to empathize nor see this as 'one of their clan' at risk, even though it was a white person.

It'll take a MAGA-hat-wearing white guy being shot by ICE before they start to worry about the new SS.

Difference here is, this, they can manipulate into a reason to close the polls.

Are they humanly capable of emotions, which would include crying?