http://boingboing.net/2015/03/31/arreste...in-ne.html

Maybe the blacks dropped out and didn't have yearbook photos.

If the blacks were college athletes, then there yearbook photos would have been used. If you want to claim a bias, it's based on money or education.

UPDATE: Here is the official statement from Iowa ABC affiliate KCRG (which also used the yearbook photos and mugshots). It goes into more detail about the discrepancy. KCRG's policy is to "use the best photographs of suspects available." The statement also explains the differing mugshot policies at the two stations where the suspects were jailed.

In Johnson County, the jail posts mug shots on its website for the duration of a suspect’s stay in jail. That process allowed KCRG-TV9 to quickly obtain the photographs of the Coralville suspects when the crime was first reported.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office, however, requires news outlets file a formal request to obtain mug shots of any suspects booked at the jail. KCRG-TV9 submitted a request for mug shots of the Hawkeye wrestlers shortly after the article was first written but did not receive a response from the jail until after 8 p.m. that night. Those delays are not uncommon as jail staff often must attend to many more pressing issues than sending a picture to media. In addition, one of the wrestlers did not have a mug shot taken because he was issued a citation, which is a type of arrest, and not formally booked at the jail.


Read more at http://www.kcrg.com/subject/news/public-...jL3SAjE.99

Much ado about nothing...

Sorry this doesn't fit the narrative you were looking for.