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> The victim's family were [resolute] that the BBC [should] show pictures showing the extent of his injuries and quote, in full, the racist tirade he was subject to during the attack.

The victim's family specifically requested that the journalist repeat the phrase used in full. The journalist/editors obviously made the choice, but they chose to go by the family's wishes rather than by the general consensus on whether it's acceptable to say that word even in the context of reporting about it.

Who gets offended then, if not the people the word is about, at all?

Replace 'determined' with 'deadset' (or 'resolute'), perhaps.

replace with "insisted"?