Update II: For the most part, my commenters are cool. One just alerted me to a related blurb in the Washington Times (8/21), which reports, “The robbers are described by police as dark-complexioned black men thought to be in their mid-30s.”
Emphasis added. So are we to believe Post reporters weren’t privy to this information? Reporting crimes, with all relevant details in the story, isn’t for the faint-hearted. Take a memo, Post.
Update: A commenter posted a link to a follow-up story, “3 Robbers Caught on Store Camera.” (8/22)
The man in the video looks black to me, but my eyes could be “jumping the gun.”
The story says one man wore a bandana over his face, one had a baseball cap pulled low over his head, and another, reportedly wearing a white T-shirt, was apparently uncovered.
I’m almost certain that witnesses told reporters what race the thugs were. You’ll notice the follow-up story doesn’t mention race, either, although it includes the store video shot.
By the way, the suspects are still as free as birds. Thanks to the video shot, concerned citizens now have some idea what one of the suspects looks like.
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Washington Post reporters must be on crack.
That’s my assessment, based on the fact that during a high-profile crime wave, they failed to mention the race or physical description of robbery and attempted murder suspects still at large.
In “Worker Hurt In Robbery of Georgetown Jewelry Store,” (8/21) (free registration required) we learn that a man was critically injured after a couple of thugs tried to rob him in broad daylight. But before we get to the details of this crime, the reporters give us background on previous Georgetown crimes (see reference to crime wave).
At last, they get there. Inspector Andy Solberg — the cop who was briefly suspended and reinstated because he had the un-PC temerity to express a fact that involved race in connection with the brutal murder of Alan Senitt, a British national who was in Georgetown with a friend minding his own business — said at least two thugs robbed the store at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
The thugs haven’t been caught, so who should we the residents of the murder capital be on the lookout for? Check this out:
Police described two suspects as men in their thirties. One was in an orange turtleneck and a dark sweatshirt. The other was pulling a wheeled suitcase with a duffel bag on top…Police asked anyone with information to call 202-727-9099.
That’s helpful. How many “men in their thirties” are there walking around Washington, D.C., I wonder? No doubt the suspects will have changed clothes, but a physical description — height, build…RACE… — would drain the pool a bit. (No mention of masks. Somebody must have seen their faces.)
Or is it just understood that the criminals are black? That’s the likely explanation. But I still think the reporters are smoking something funny.
Incidentally, early stories about Senitt’s murder don’t mention the race of his killer or the “assailants,” either. But NBC4 got a good shot of one of the fools on his perp walk.
So there we have it. Because the left-leaning Washington Post doesn’t want to hurt people’s feelings or appear “racist,” it omits crucial information about a couple of fools who rob and attempt to murder people in broad daylight, fools who haven’t been caught.
Yeah, that “crime emergency” thing is working splendidly, Chief.
Addendum — I’ll pre-empt an expected response to this post: “Maybe the police didn’t tell the reporters the race of the suspects.”
The day journalists report only what the cops tell them and omit eyewitness accounts is the day I’ll toss my beloved Treo out of the window.
Blogger and commenter Mark the Pundit writes: “It’s funny, I do not remember the Post being so sensitive during the DC sniper period when they were screaming at the top of their lungs ‘look for a white guy in a van!’”
By the way, the DC snipers turned out to be a couple of black idiots, not white ones.
Blogger and commenter Hube says: “Our local paper, the News Journal, never identifies the race of criminal suspects either. As a result, letter writers to the paper frequently mock the news daily…Of course, when it’s a white-on-black ‘hate crime,’ it’s virtually guaranteed to be prominently printed.”
