Suspect thinking OR Paranoid caucasoids
Criticizing the local daily’s crime coverage is usually Tony’s thing, but I’m swagger-jacking* today due to the Post-Dispatch’s coverage of a robbery and sexual assault that took place on Wash U’s South 40.
Curiously, the Post-Dispatch piece does not mention the race of the attacker.
Like most St. Louisans, I don’t subscribe to the Post-Dispatch, so I don’t know if today’s edition carried a picture of the attacker next to the article. But shouldn’t the article mention the race of the suspect anyway?
Maybe the Post-Dispatch assumes that we’ll automatically know his people’s continent of origin.
Or maybe the Post-Dispatch knows more about catching a criminal than I do, and thereby knows that the colors of his belt buckle (silver) and the piping on his gloves (red) is more important than his race (black).
According to a local television station, the girl was “beaten and bloodied” but is recovering well.
The suspect’s picture is here.
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*Speaking of the originators of the phrase, this may be one of the best workplace-safe photos Tony has ever used.