The Chronicle‘s crime reporting takes an interesting, if not entirely informative, turn today:
Police are searching for four men who smashed a jewelry case inside the Memorial City Mall this morning and ran off with about six Rolex watches.
About six. Maybe five. Perhaps seven. Something like that. The jewelry store must not know, because they surely don’t keep inventory or have exact numbers for insurance purposes. Or perhaps a call was placed late to them, Rick Casey style, and the number of stolen watches could not be confirmed by press time. Who knows?
The men are described as 20 to 30 years old and between 5 foot 5 and 5 foot 10. Two of them had braided hair.
Braided hair?
That reference caught the eye of Banjo Jones:
Am I wrong or does the “braided hair” part imply these suspects are African American? I’ve seen a few white guys with braided hair (none down here in B’port I’ll have you know) but it’s pretty much a style favored by young African American males, right?
Is saying they have “braided hair” just some sort of code so that the rest of the jewelry store owners in Houston know that two of the bad guys are African American, but leaving out the apparent fact that they are indeed African American somehow going to keep the readers out there who are “keeping score” off their racist bully pulpit?
It gets confusing. That’s all I know.
Yes, it does. I still don’t know how to score that reference.
