From Decatur Police…
We have had a male resident of the neighborhood come forward and advise he was walking and turned around on Erie Avenue near Clairemont Avenue on 2-21-14 at approximately 2:00 pm and believes he was the subject of the complaint. The male resident further stated he remembered seeing a young lady a short distance in front of him who seemed somewhat nervous as he made his turn. He was going to cross the street and walk on the other side because the young lady seemed apprehensive but she left the area before he had a chance. He did not think anything else of it until he later read the alert.
Investigators have followed up with the both the male resident who has come forward and the original complainant and based on the location, time frame, physical and clothing descriptions and details provided, believe this is the male the complainant encountered.
We want to thank the complainant for being alert and the resident for coming forward to clear up the misunderstanding.
This does NOT mean the suspect in the Emory University and DeKalb County assaults has been apprehended. We will continue to share any potentially useful information with the Emory University Police Department and DeKalb County Police Department to assist them with their investigations.
Wow, this seems like good work all around. We can all breathe a little easier but still stay alert and advise our children to do so too. I’m glad that the young lady felt comfortable in reporting her suspicions but also that the male resident, who was mistaken to be the Emory suspect, felt comfortable in coming forward and clearing up confusion. Glad the police are keeping the public updated. And it’s a lesson to us all that things aren’t always as they first seem.
“also that the male resident, who was mistaken to be the Emory suspect, felt comfortable in coming forward and clearing up confusion”
No kidding. He had to realize that he could be putting himself into a difficult situation with unnecessary/unwanted scrutiny and investigation. (Of course if he is the suspect, this is pure evil genius)
Profiling.
Just because I have a beard……!
+1000
Yeah, that’s not really funny. Or even close to accurate.
Well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.
The funny part maybe, not the accurate part.
Please explain how it’s not accurate. In one woman’s mind a man fit a profile and she acted based on it.
She’s a private citizen, not a cop.
Who told a cop. And rightfully so. But it really is no different than the other matter. The only difference is the way the resident responded. I’m glad the woman acted the way that she did. And I hope they catch the real creep.
It’s completely different than what I assume you mean by the “other matter”. There was no sketch or description going around of an older black man who was suspected in any burglaries in that other matter, and in this matter, the police didn’t investigate anything; the misidentified man came forward. How is that the same?
Observed behaviors in both. One by a resident, one by a cop. And for some reason one is good sense and the other is profiling.
Plus a description. Of an actual suspect in an actual crime. And the “observed behaviors” in the other were disputed, and hardly suspicious regardless. Not at all the same. And if you don’t get that the police are supposed to be held to a higher standard than a resident, then it’s not really worth debating the other points.
” And for some reason one is good sense and the other is profiling.”
Not disputing the good sense in the former but, more accurately: One is misidentification (in case you missed the heading of this post) and the other is profiling.
One person was mistakenly identified as a burglar. The other was mistakenly identified as a rapist.
And just for the record, I also agree that there is a huge difference between a cop and a private citizen “profiling.”
Based on a description of a suspect in a specific case, one that has included a sketch. That’s misidentification, not profiling.
Go ahead and enjoy your fun with semantics.
Go ahead and enjoy your delusions that your false equivalency amounts to anything other than a false equivalency.
One time, I thought I saw Matt Ryan at a supermarket. Turns out it was just a guy who looks like Matt Ryan.
Misidentification.
One time, I saw a guy walking through my neighbor’s yard looking closely at the house. I thought he was casing the joint. Turns out he wa s a contractor hired to size up a renovation.
Mistaken suspicion.
The difference between the two seems fairly obvious and not at all semantic.
+1000 to brianc
Nice to see a rape is so much fodder for you humorists.
“Nice to see a rape is so much fodder for you humorists.”
Yeah, but let somebody look at their flat screen in their living room window the wrong way, the humor vanishes and it’s time to be on the look-out for anyone “blaming the victim”.
Nice to see you understand the difference between joking about a rape, and joking about profiling (or lack there of). Well done.
Points to The Walrus for gently sprinkling a Big Lebowski quote into a delicate conversation.
Ah, thank you sir (or ma’am). I do what I can.
Careful, man, there is a beverage here.
Or another favorite, this aggression will not stand, man.
Being cautious and calling the police because someone looks like a published police sketch is not profiling. Stopping someone who is definitely doing something that would be considered suspicious, whether he/she were white or black or purple, is not profiling. Stopping someone who would not have been stopped if he were white, is profiling.
The “resident of the neighborhood” must feel terrible that he could be mistaken as a rapist or even considered to look or act suspicious like a rapist. Appreciate him having courage to straighten this out so “young lady”, neighbors and police can move on and catch the real criminal.