From the same article:
In one jarringly jaw-dropping moment during the press briefing, Baker painted Long as almost a sympathetic figure who’s just been having a tough time lately.
“They got that impression that he understood the gravity of it and he was pretty much fed up, he’d been kind of at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him,” the captain said. “And this is what he did.”
Maybe it’s just me, but somehow I doubt this would have been Police Captain Baker’s response if the shooter hadn’t been a white male.
