Quote:Yes I did read the description. Rather than focus on one part, look at the bigger picture here. The people in the car (more than one person) matched the description of suspects involved in a armed robbery. One of the suspects in particular was a closer match.


Are you willing to say that all black males have a wide-set nose? Is that a racist description or an accurate description?


Me personally, I have met people of many different races that have a wide-set nose as well as a thin nose. Facial characteristics are very descriptive and can certainly be taken by some thin-skinned people as being "racist".

What caused him to be a closer match? Let's ask the officer:

Quote:The driver looked more like one of our suspects, just ‘cause of the wide-set nose.

Now I too have met many many people of different races with different size noses, but let's not pretend the term " wide set nose" isn't implying race. That term goes back a long and hateful way when describing black people and you know it.


I'm not the one missing the bigger picture. The fact that Mr. Officer used this one particular characteristic to describe a robbery suspect and not other commonly used descriptions such as: height, weight, hair color, facial hair, tattoos, scars, clothing etc speaks volumes on exactly where Mr. Officer's head was at. He gave one extremely broad description that could describe literally millions of people.

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