Not being hairstylists...we believe this is the chee wee hairstyle

[Anita Garcia]

More from the Sheriff of St. Tammany Parish..."Asked whether it shows the suspect with dreadlocks or the one with chee wees, Strain said, "We were betting whether anyone would ask that. Not being (hairstylists), we believe this is the chee wee hairstyle."

<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/sttammany/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1156318160183270.xml&coll=1>

The article did not have a picture of the sketch.
The article did not describe the length of the braids.
The article does not explain why there is only one sketch, and not two, of the suspects.
Does this change your impression(s) regarding whether the Sheriff's original statements were unconstitutional racial profiling?

Snip from todays article:
"Detectives Tuesday released a sketch of one of the two gunmen who killed four people nearly two months ago in a drug-related, execution-style shooting near Slidell.
. . . .
The sketch represents the first detailed information released so far about either suspect, who had previously been described as young black men, one with dreadlocks and the other with a "chee wee" hairstyle.

The vague descriptions became the source of controversy two days after the shootings when Strain said in a TV interview that anyone walking the streets with such hairstyles could "expect to be getting a visit from a sheriff's deputy."

The statement drew a sharp rebuke from the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused Strain of engaging in unconstitutional racial profiling. Strain has refused to back down, and the U.S. Justice Department has assigned a mediator to try to resolve the dispute.

Based on descriptions from two witnesses who survived the carnage, the sketch depicts a black man with a thin mustache and braided hair.

Asked whether it shows the suspect with dreadlocks or the one with chee wees, Strain said, "We were betting whether anyone would ask that. Not being (hairstylists), we believe this is the chee wee hairstyle." "

[annabanana]

1. I give...

what's a chee wee?

[Richard Steele]

2. Apparently, no one knows.

Even the cops who said they were gonna stop anybody
who had one have now admitted they don't know what it is.

[Anita Garcia]

4. Makes the comment suspect, er, questionable

[Richard Steele]

7. Not much 'question' in my mind.

The sheriff is a racist POS who publicly announced a policy
of detaining every black male who dared to use public streets.
That fact is NOT in question.

[EFerrari]

9. I hope he keeps talking. He indicts himself every time he opens

his mouth.

[Anita Garcia]

3. We've been trying to get the Sheriff to tell us that for weeks!

Lot's of speculation on the internet about what "it" is.
The real question, however, is what did (and does) the Sheriff think a "chee wee" hairstyle is since he later qualified his comments by saying he wasn't racial profiling, he was using it to find the suspects.

[EFerrari]

6. Maybe the good Sheriff needs to get himself an expert

at Supercuts.

:rofl:

[prole_for_peace]

5. why a whole article about it and no SKETCH

they talk about it but don't show it. if it was "released" couldn't they have printed a copy?

[Anita Garcia]

8. Then we would have a lot more to talk about

Like, "Is that dreadlocks, chee wee or corn rows"!