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New York Dems want to pass a bill that would limit a description of a suspect to identify suspects essentially by the clothes they wear only. Truly mind-numbing stupidity. NYPost reports the following: Cops might as well wear blindfolds if the City Council passes a bill that would let them use little more than the color of a suspect’s clothing in descriptions — or risk being sued for profiling, according to this provocative new ad (pictured) from the NYPD captains union. The ad asks, “How effective is a police officer with a blindfold on?” And the answer is not very,...

ST. PETERSBURG — About a dozen family members and friends, mostly women, were playing cards at a home Wednesday night when someone knocked on the front door. When Ebony M. Stewart, a 27-year-old mother of two, answered the door about 10:45 p.m. an unidentified man shot her dead, police said. [snip] After the shooting spree, the suspects took cash from the various purses in the house and left. Stewart had two children who were staying with a relative at another house. The suspect with the handgun was described as black, 20 to 24 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches...