[Ciexyz]

I'm surprised they even identified him as "a Middle Eastern male". In my area, they identify perps as "a brown-haired male wearing a green jacket", deliberately omitting any mention of race. Unless it's in a positive sense, as in "the elderly man that wandered away from the nursing home is Caucasian...."

[John H K]

surprised they even identified him as "a Middle Eastern male". In my area, they identify perps as "a brown-haired male wearing a green jacket", deliberately omitting any mention of race.

"Middle Eastern" isn't a race.

Arabs are Caucasians.

And frankly "Middle Easterners" cannot be spotted on sight. To most any American people from Pakistan and India look "Middle Eastern" and that's 3,000 miles from the "Middle East."

And many Hispanics, Greeks, Southern Italians...would be pretty indistiguishable from a "Middle Eastern" person.

Some scholars define a "Mediterranean" sub-race of Caucasian.

[XBob]

161 - "I'm surprised they even identified him as "a Middle Eastern male". In my area, they identify perps as "a brown-haired male wearing a green jacket","

We do things different in Texas than in Pittsburg. Besides, we have a lot more mid-easterners and mexicans here near Houston. And he was identified as mid-eastern by his looks, and his 'accent'.

[freebilly]

I'm surprised they even identified him as "a Middle Eastern male"

The editor who let that one slip through has probably already been ordered off to sensitivity training....