Hmmm? Suspicious = disposed to suspect something wrong
You don't recognize the individual. He/She seems interested in the houses. It's night time. There has been crime in the area.
I've called the police on some suspicious folks in my neighborhood following a couple of break ins. Turns out, one of the calls was some landscape workers taking a break at 7:30 PM on a Friday night. The other white guys were actually the burglars that broke into a house a few nights before. They were released because they had no evidence to hold them. They were "just looking at houses."
So, if you don't know what suspicious looks like, you sound predisposed to assume some sort of racism.
I look out the window and judge the person walking across the street as “suspicious”. Well, he’s visiting you a few houses up the street.
Martin was not a stranger in the neighbourhood, having visited before, at least once right before he walked to the convenience store from where he was returning. A rash of burglaries in the neighbourhood. 40 in the past year, I read (correct the number if you know better.) What does the above say about the quality of the “work” performed by the volunteer crime watch captain, also an unemployed car wash professional, and a 9 year student at a two year college, who as someone else pointed out had an earring in at least one ear, and could have been easily mistaken by Martin as a stalking faggot? (I’ve seen those, haven’t you? They are the ones who look suspicious, as you return with a bottle of iced tea to the house where you’re staying.