Monday, May 13, 2013

No description of the New Orleans shooters?


Police were accompanying the parade and saw the three offenders run off and yet the reports give no whiff of a description of the perps.   I have read through every report of the shooting that Google news threw up.

I surmised that the reason for the silence might be that any reasonable attempt at description would include the word "black".   And I was right.  CBS, of all people, have breached the wall of silence.  They couldn't bear to mention the B-word but they went close. We read from them:  "Police are looking for three suspects, one of which was described the suspect as a dark skin male, 18-22 years old with short hair, a white shirt and blue jeans."  Poor grammar but real information. 

I am guessing that reporting of this crime will rapidly fade away.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Isn't it odd that the New Orleans police would not release specific descriptions to warn residents and to seek help from the public in finding the shooters?

Wireless.Phil said...

They announced the suspect yesterday, he is a 19 year old black male and he was caught on video that was released yesterday.

Police identify suspect in New Orleans shooting
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/14/us-usa-shooting-neworleans-idUSBRE94B0D720130514