High Noon: You Be The Editor

In the story that the S-R broke last week re: the hate crime perpetuated against a local man of Middle Eastern descent, newspaper editors debated how to crop this photo. The editors and I had trouble with the foul name spray-painted on the man’s vehicle in the lower lefthand corner of the photo. We chose to somewhat obscure the pejorative. The Coeur d’Alene Press elected to show include the name in the photo it published over the weekend. I don’t know if there’s a right or wrong here in terms of editting. But I would like to know what you think.

Question: How would you have handled the racist graffiti in the photo?