Identify Any Unnecessary and Potentially Offensive References to Gender, Race

Essay

Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.
Crime report on television (or in the newspaper): "Police are looking for a white man about thirty years old, with brown hair and brown eyes, and about five feet ten inches tall. He has tattoos on both forearms-a picture of a snake on the right and the word 'mother' on the left."