[wfo]

I think the tacit claim made by the article was that the entire interaction was almost entirely race-driven, suggesting that:

1) The person he tried to help would not have been accosted by police if he were white

2) The author would not have been beaten and abused if he were white.

3) Perhaps neither would have happened if the officers were not white.

As the story fits in with the over-arching narrative of so many police departments across the country being explicitly or implicitly racist and heaping brutal unspeakable abuse and murder on nonwhite populations.

I think all 3 explanations above are plausible, but there's certainly enough police brutality floating around out there that white people can get their fair share as well. And nonwhite officers can certainly dish it out.