I'd like to ask a question of whoever makes the style decisions at the Washington Post. Does the paper now intend to put the race of the primary players in the headline of every story? Every crime story? Or only the crime stories in which it appears that a police officer might have done something wrong - even though no one has the police side of the story yet and there's no way to know for sure?
Because as far as I can see, the Post does not write headlines like "Black man shoots store owner," or "Black woman commits carjacking," or "White former cabinet secretary violates gross negligence statute." They don't write headlines like this because it would be completely inappropriate to do so. The race of the people involved in a news story is not what matters. It's what was done that you're reporting, not the skin color of the people involved.