According to reports, the two officers saw the suspect fumbling with something in the back of the vehicle; he fled when he saw the two officers.
If they have released that much information without identifying the color or dress of the perp you can do some “educated blank filling” to conclude this was not a white male. If it had been a white male the newsies would have shouted it loudly, and Janet the Useless would have been crowing even louder.