She's looking like the one, definitely, given the proximity to the crime and the description.

No one deserves to lay on the sidewalk and die on his 20th birthday. We believe there are more people out there who saw what happened or have information, and we're urging them to step up and tell us what they know.

It was a pretty good turnout in spite of the weather, and the crowd was very well behaved. We made a few disorderly conduct arrests, mostly of people who may have had too much to drink, but there were no serious incidents at all.

We do do that. If we get specific complaints, we'll put an officer out there to educate pedestrians as well as put an eye on the motorists, to keep everybody honest. We do get complaints on both sides of the coin.

Circumstances are important. The circumstances mitigate the degree to which the crime was committed.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.