That Must Have Been Painful

Nice lakefront Rahm:

• A man tried to sexually assault a woman late Friday on the lakefront bike trail by the South Loop, but she escaped after a bicyclist scared him away, Chicago police said.
  
  About 11:20 p.m., the 27-year-old woman was attacked while walking south on the bike path in the 700 block of South Lake Shore Drive, according to a community alert issued by police.
  
  A man attempted to sexually assault the woman, who struggled and tried to pepper-spray him. A passing bicyclist then “startled” the man, and he ran away, police said.

And then the Tribune does something remarkable:

• The alert described the suspect as a black man with a medium complexion, who was thin but with an athletic build. Police said he did not have any facial hair, was between 28 and 30 years old, standing between 5-foot-10 and 6 foot tall. Police didn’t provide a detailed clothing description, but noted he wore a black jacket and black pants.

Now we know and you know that Community Alerts ALWAYS have this information on it. The media chooses not to report it though - delicate sensibilities or some bullshit.

But something must be different with this case. A reader speculated that someone in the media or related to someone in the media must have been the victim for the Tribune to swerve this far out of their comfort zone.