David Jassy was born to a Gambian father and an Estonian mother so in fact he is only swedish by citizenship and not swedish heritage.

— Sjved, Sweden
Feb. 2, 2010 at 1:19 p.m

So much for Chain's Estonian racial purity theory....

Background:

David Jassy, a 35-year old black man, was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of John Osnes, a 55-year old white man, who was killed during what authorities described as a road rage incident.

Osnes, a jazz musician and avid pedestrian, had struck the front of Jassy's SUV with his hands after the vehicle edged into a Hollywood crosswalk in the early morning of Nov. 23, 2008. Witnesses told police that Jassy exited his vehicle punched Osnes, kicked him in the head when he stooped to recover his glasses and then ran over him with the vehicle.

To read the comments about LA Times inclusion of race in crime reports, or to comment yourself:
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide/post/times-coverage-swedish-rapper-found-guilty-second-degree-murder-road-rage-incident/

Many, many comments on the paper's inclusion of race in its crime reporting. I say good on the LA Times for including that information. Most media outlets are too cowardly to publish the race or photos of criminals because they are usually niggers or other nonWhites.

Here is the paper's policy from it's FAQ:

Why does the Homicide Report give the race of victims and suspects?
The Homicide Report includes information on race or ethnicity of each homicide victim, as well as the name, gender and age and the time, place and manner of death. A number of readers have asked why race is included. Some have criticized the practice.
Racial information was once routinely included in news stories about crimes, but in recent decades, newspapers and other media outlets stopped mentioning suspects' or victims' race or ethnicity because of public criticism. Newspapers came to embrace the idea that such information is irrelevant to the reporting of crimes and may unfairly stigmatize racial groups.
The Homicide Report departs from this rule in the interest of presenting the most complete and accurate demographic picture of who is dying in homicides in Los Angeles County.
Race and ethnicity, like age and gender, are stark predictors of homicide risk. Blacks are much more likely to die from homicide than whites, and Latinos somewhat more likely. Black men, in particular, are extraordinarily vulnerable: They are less than 9% of the county's population, but they represented nearly a third of homicide victims over the three years of data in the Homicide Report. That means one in a 1,000 blacks became homicide victims over those three years, more than 10 times the rate for whites and nearly four times the rate for Latinos.
The Homicide Report recognizes the peril of turning victims into statistics by reducing their lives and deaths to a few facts -- particularly racial designations that provide only the roughest markers of ancestry and history. But given the magnitude of difference in homicide risk along racial and ethnic lines – -and the suffering homicide inflicts on subsets of the population -- we opt to present the racial and ethnic contours of the problem so conspicuous in the coroner's data.
In making racial and ethnic distinctions, The Times relies largely on the coroner's designation. Occasionally, additional reporting from law enforcement officials or the victim's family may lead us to make changes.

http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/about/#race