This is an amazing photo of a robbery suspect in Sunday’s
Reading Eagle.
It appears she stole a phone in West Reading and took a
selfie, which somehow got sent to cloud storage so the police could retrieve it.
If so, the robber is pretty dumb.
Also, what a great newspaper story that would make!
Most crime stories are entertainment. Lists of most-read stories
in local media are crowded with stories about trouble. I doubt they are read mostly
out of sympathy for the victims. Stories about violent crime, fires and car wrecks have action, conflict, juicy details –
what every reader wants.
Well, not this story. We’re left to our imaginations.
(Sensitivity alert! Describing suspects merely by their race
tends to bolster prejudice and is bad journalism.)
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