Well, a lot of things are a race issue here in the states. Whitey (and i'm 99.8% caucasian, and .2% native american), is incredibly racist here, especially in southern states but northern states aren't immune to racism. Cops really do racially profile people and are more aggressive with brown individuals, be they african, hispanic, native, or middle eastern. Not everything is a race issue though and sometimes it does get overblown, but most of the time, yeah racism is behind quite a few incidents. I am not the down-voter by the way, because i do partially agree with you to an extent.