If they wear blue, that is? Might be brown.
A veteran cop has revealed how political correctness may prevented (sic) police arresting the man accused of throwing a thermos of hot coffee on a baby. Nine-month-old baby Luka was at a picnic with his mother and friends at Hanlon Park, in Brisbane's south, on August 27 when a stranger approached and poured hot coffee over the infant, badly scalding him.
At this point, is anyone at all surprised?
Despite CCTV clearly capturing the face of the suspect, police failed to find or detain him, and detectives revealed on Monday that the now-identified 33-year-old accused attacker had managed to flee overseas. Former Australian Federal Police detective superintendent David Craig criticised Queensland Police for not showing the suspect's face in their first public alert despite having a clear picture, and for being deliberately vague in describing him.
'His description was reported as "a person [with] tan skin…" that doesn't narrow it down very much,' Mr Craig told Channel Seven's Sunrise program. 'He should've been called out as a man of Asian appearance, just as we do people of Caucasian appearance. It didn't happen quickly enough in this case.
'This is not racial vilification terms. These are identifying terms.'
It seems it's not just the UK police that get hung up on identifying terms then.
The 33-year-old man accused of carrying out the attack was in NSW on August 28 - a day after the incident in Brisbane. He flew out of Sydney Airport on August 31 with his own passport just 12 hours before police confirmed his identity. A warrant has since been obtained for his arrest for alleged grievous bodily harm, a charge which carries a possible life sentence.
Only if caught. And he's not likely to come back now, is he?
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