I had a gun pointed at me and when you're looking at the gun you're not really paying attention to the guy and then when you're sprinting and ducking you're not really aware of the finer facial features either. So later when I'm talking to the detective he's like you're gonna go to county and help do a sketch and I wanted to be helpful so I was like sure. So I get there and the guy shows me a 100 different polaroids yes polaroids of various inmates and says just tell me these lips, that nose, these eyes, don't worry about describing the guy, just pick out the features that you see in the photos. So we sit there for a long time, and the sketch is just a sketch, I don't know if it looks like the guy or not. The guy keeps asking me and I'm like yeah yeah I keep nodding my head but deep inside it's all the same, especially after staring at all those photographs.
So finally we're done and I look and it's Generic Black Guy and I give the sketcher the thumbs up and say, yeah that looks like him.
Sorry Generic Black Guy, I was too embarrassed to admit I wasted the guys time.
Hope you're out of jail now and back on your feet!
Sorry again.
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