A male “assaulted and attempted unsuccessfully” to rob a female victim at 3:20 a.m. Friday at 16th and Dolores streets. Reasons for this failure are unexplained in the police report, and no arrests have been made.
Armand is a photojournalism and multimedia student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and is originally from Baton Rouge, La. His work history includes being a paper pusher in Los Angeles and a youth program coordinator in Ramallah, and is currently a student editor at Mission Local, which means he gets to read a lot of news and tell people what to do.
He also waits for the day when bacon and buffalo sauce combine on one plate.
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Why do you name the race of the attacker but not of the victim? Why mention race at all unless it’s relevant or is part of a detailed description?
Steve: Thank you for your comment. You’re right. Generally we would put ethnicity into an article on crime if we had a full description of a suspect–height, weight, age, facial hair etc–that might help. But this is so general that I should have caught it and edited it out. We’ve made the correction. Best, Lydia