This is far from being swept under the rug. It is the lead story on every news site I click on.

While it doesn't fit the "white cop kill black innocent" narrative, it is being held up as "institutional" racism.

Now all cops are being trained to kill innocent young black men, not just the white ones. Who set forth those rules and training? Why, evil middle aged white men, of course. So it doesn't matter the color of the cop's skin. It is the culture of policing in America.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/opini...nes/index.html
The police who killed Tyre Nichols were Black. But they might still have been driven by racism

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...deaths-footage
In general, their results suggest that the issue has to do with officer bias, conscious or unconscious, that casts Black people as inherently more dangerous than their white counterparts.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunha...h=236ca5e2220a
...white supremacy isn’t only embodied by individual racists hiding their faces underneath pointed hoods, but it’s also upheld by police officers, healthcare providers, schoolteachers, business leaders, and others

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-v...-being-charged
It’s time to move to a more nuanced discussion of the way police violence endangers Black lives