Not trying to say anything whatever that's favorable about the City or the Police involved...but the article sounds too much like currently-trendy White vs. Black ideology and framing. To really understand and deal with it - the incident was a heavy-handed and botched government/police move against some "non-compliant" urban poor people. History has plenty of those, dating back long before there were any "white" or "black" people in the western hemisphere. The cover-up is less a clever conspiracy than it is an "OMG this makes us all look like bungling evil villains!" reflex, by the social groups in power - who then tried to protect their auras and self-images of legitimacy with denial and self-delusion.

Besides, it'd be hilarious see the establishment framed as wretchedly incompetent villains, in need of therapy to deal with their obvious mental issues. And maybe that framing might serve the Black community better than the current sort of White/Black cosmic dualism - which doesn't seem to benefit anyone except the ideologues and extremists.