No, Derf is right...I don't think that his skin colour is irrelevant given the circumstances he was in, but I do find the wording unnecessary. Right now it's almost as if they're saying 'the policeman, because he is black, ...' There would have been better ways of phrasing this fact.
Besides, the guys who got shot were clearly part of a bunch of lowlife nazi scumbag hooligans...while I don't encourage killing ppl, you won't hear me boo-hoo the dude who got killed. Fucking fascists got what was coming.