Ohio School Shooting- Stereotypes

I have been keeping up with several articles from the associate press about the school shooting in Cleveland Ohio. As any school shooting I find the events to be devastating and scary. For the purpose of this blog, I wanted to point out my opinion on the stereotypes I have been continuing to find in the articles. Each time the shooter is described, his ensemble is described. The writers make it very known to the readers that he was earning a Marilyn Manson shirt with black nail polish on his fingers. The quote students that discussed his trench coat and black outfits. I feel that these factors stress the idea of stereotypes. This was seen in the events of Columbine and are now being repeated. These ideas are ridiculas. Also, I sent in one article to share with the class that made it a point to highlight the race demographic of the school and the students involved in the shooting. As if that makes a difference. I feel like those statistics were put in the article as a "post Jena 6" idea of racial violence in schools.