I'm not denying there was reason for him to be found innocent.
But, like I put in another post, no black teenager carrying an assault rifle would have been allowed to meander past the cops on the night of the riot.
Assuming you live in America, you are occupying land stolen from Indians, participating in an economy whose foundation was built on slavery, and descended, maybe, from a country which brutalized indigenous populations during colonizations.
So, yes, like it or not, everything is about race.