[shhrubbery!]

If John King is afraid to say more than "dark skinned," out of fear that divulging more information might be "inflammatory," then I think one could fairly deduce that the additional descriptive information is "middle-eastern looking."

If the suspect were just an American with a dark tan, or an African American, I think there would be little reason to fear that reporting this would be "inflammatory."

[Meet the New Boss]

If John King is afraid to say more than "dark skinned," out of fear that divulging more information might be "inflammatory," then I think one could fairly deduce that the additional descriptive information is "middle-eastern looking."

If the suspect were just an American with a dark tan, or an African American, I think there would be little reason to fear that reporting this would be "inflammatory."

In his auto(?)biography Obama wrote about a skin-bleaching treatment - he claimed that he was traumatized as a child when he read about it.

I can see them popping open a can of that to whitewash whomever the perp turns out to be, just as George Zimmerman was transformed into a "white Hispanic."