Next step for investigators: whether Andrew Lester acted on racial grounds. “The information we currently have does not say that (the act) was racially motivated, the investigation is still ongoing. But as the chief of police, I recognize the racial components of this case”, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday at a press conference.
This affair has caused a stir throughout the country, where similar miscellaneous events are recurrent. President Joe Biden spoke on the phone with the teenager on Monday, and said “shared his hope that he would make a speedy recovery“, said the White House. “My heart was completely broken when I learned” the fate of the teenager, had tweeted actress Halle Berry, calling on the prosecutor to act. Protesters gathered Sunday outside the house where the teenager was injured and demanded that the author of the shootings be tried for racial crime, Kansas City radio station KCUR reported.
