So I was reading about the Ukrainian dude who got assassinated and the article mentioned he was about to get into his car, a black Mercedes-Benz.
You never read about anyone calling the police with their blue iPhone.
Or a description of a suspect wearing a red banana republic t-shirt.
Or that a young man was stabbed with a green santoku knife from Victorinox.
It’s like free advertising.
I feels like you read too much into this. The best descriptor is usually the getaway vehicle and the easiest, unchangeable feature(giant tattoo, birthmark, etc) because those thing cannot be changed in just a few second, and what the public will have easier time to identify. What phone people calling the police with is super irrelevant, and they’re not gonna have extra obscure detail described that the public won’t know, it just gonna confuse people. Everyone know merc, saying “a black merc” will have everyone on a look out.