I can't help but remain cynical when it comes to so many white people expressing their relief over a recent arrest connected to The Waldo Rapist case. I'm sure that in time they'll find another minority boogieman and respond with even more widespread racial profiling.
Still, what's clear from this story is that THE COMPOSITE SKETCH SUCKED despite the fact it was placed everywhere in Waldo like a de facto warning to people of color.
IF this dude is in any way connected to the case then the sketch didn't do a good job of indicating his age, a 70's era mustache, eyebrows or the fact that he didn't look like The Creature from The Black Lagoon.
Still, I don't want to interrupt the celebration of relieved white people, I just want to YET AGAIN point out that the hard work of the KCPD is what will ultimately lead to the safety of Waldo and NOT so much panicked racial profiling performed by neighbors, Internet trolls and local pundits.
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Info Emerging About Person Of Interest In Waldo Rapist Case
More proof that cops can't draw Black people!
Police Hold Man In Waldo Rape Case
Residents Applaud Break In Waldo Rapist Case
Metro women relieved after months of living in fear
Cops cant draw white people either.
ReplyDeleteMy older sister's dating that guy on the LEFT.
ReplyDeleteif those darn women would only take more time looking at this guy! what were they thinking?
ReplyDeleteYou are such a schmucky idiot. He could have grown the mustache in a week!
ReplyDeleteThe sketch is perfect! You suck.
ReplyDeleteReally? You're pointing out the fact that he grew a mustache as a critic of the drawing? Really?
ReplyDeleteIt's very hard to judge and compare between the drawing and the pixelized image of a guy from who-know-what-year shown at an angle on the tv set.
Police sketches are a composite of the testimony of a number of witnesses, most of whom are doing the best they can to remember any distinctive features at all. The point is to give a general idea and eliminate description that are way off the mark. The reliability of these kinds of tools is something up for debate, but I still feel it's better than just having some general verbal description out there.
You're really reaching for cynicsm on this one.
I think people of all races are celebrating the arrest of a suspect. Hopefully it is the right guy. Maybe he would have become bored with white women.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is the police gave out the sketch asking the public's help. At the same time a parole officer must have been meeting with this guy knowing he was a convicted rapist released from prison shortly before the rapes started.
ReplyDeleteYou're right that race played a big part in the serial rape case. The rapist is black. He raped 5 white women. He should face hate crime charges. Rape is not about sex. It is about power. You don't get any more racist than that.
ReplyDeleteRight on, 11:11! Rape is the ultimate hate crime.
ReplyDeleteTony, you still haven't talked about the fat piece of shit who killed that poor white boy on 71 highway a while back. I wonder why?
ReplyDeleteI like it when people cry about racial profiling when a criminal does in fact fit to a racial profile.
ReplyDeleteThe person drawing the image doesn't have a model in front of them. I don't think its that bad!
ReplyDeleteJust so you don't think I'm always critical of your stuff, the movie monster pix was damned funny! Hate to say a rape case made my morning, but that pix sure did!
ReplyDeleteActually he looks a little like that fat guy politico (Ron somebody?) you're always showing in here.
Yep - it sure looks like there was racial profiling. By the perp, that is. Weren't all the victims white women in this case? Looks like this piece of shit criminal has something in common with Tony (which is probably why Tony is so concerned about him): a hatred for white women.
ReplyDeleteWatch this dipshit end up looking exactly like that sketch.
ReplyDeleteNow that would be some funny shit.
I wonder how well Tony would be able to describe his rapist if he was being forced (as if he would fight back) to have sex, sodomized and assaulted, out of sleep or out of the blue.
ReplyDeleteEven this dude's neighbors said he looked like the sketch.
Much as sometimes even when you're paranoid they ARE out to get you...sometimes you are 'racially profiling' because it IS a black man.
ReplyDeleteWere the victims supposed to say he was white?
ReplyDeleteWere the neighbors supposed to be looking out for a white rapist?
Were the police supposed to be on the hunt for a white person?
Justin Bieber!
ReplyDeleteclevon, you dont know shit, rape happens to old grammas and nuns and young women as well.
ReplyDeleteI dunno....he still looks like terry reilly to me.
ReplyDeletecleavon... I'm inclined to agree with you. I think rape really IS about sex, not power.
ReplyDeletethat power thing is an invention of women who don't understand men but think they do.
exactly what it is, I'm not sure. but I agree, its about sex by men who have no respect and aren't willing to earn the privilege of a woman's gift.
I'm not positive, but I suspect that 50,000 years ago, most sex by early humans was what we 'civilized' now call rape.
I'm not so sure in some other cultures today, things haven't changed. The interesting question is this: Why is it different in America?
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
ReplyDeleteEventually, Kansas Citians should get the answer to why it took so many months to arrest someone in the Waldo rapes.
Sure, this is a question the police don't want to hear on a day they have announced a major break in the case.
But it's a question that should be asked, so the public knows whether the police conducted a thorough enough investigation into the widely publicized case.
The facts released Wednesday raise the uncomfortable question itself.
Consider: The man arrested in connection with the Waldo rapes is a convicted rapist, according to police.
That's one of the first lists of suspects the police likely would have been looking at during their months of investigations, with dozens of officers dedicated to the case.
The suspect was paroled from prison -- again, one of the first lists of possible suspects the police would have examined during their probe.
The attention focused on the Waldo rapist was intense.
The case occurred in the city's southwest corridor, where much of Kansas City's civic elite still lived. It also had a racial angle to it -- the rapist was a black man and the victims were five white women, in separate cases.
Yet even with all the attention, the case stretched from late September of 2009 to the last attack in late February of this year.
So why did it take so long for the police to solve the case? The public needs to know.
------because 75 percent of the kcpd cops have desk jobs.--------
Radioman KC I hope you're joking. If not you're an absolutely ignorant.
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