Not to inject social issues, but some see White Privilege in this, perhaps White Savior Complex.
Author Wesley Yang, who is Asian, comments:
The right-wing meta-narrative where the left-wing Philly journo who mocked critics of Krasner's criminal justice policies had the consequences of his favored policies visited upon him by a street thug turned out to be wrong
Instead, the right-wing meta-narrative where the white leftist savior was actually a homosexual groomer using drugs to induce a troubled 15-year old black boy into sexual liaisons who was then murdered by the kid he was grooming after attempting to blackmail him with homemade porn turned out to be applicable