Does the initial source of a police description of a suspect have any constitutional significance?

state action took place at all in this case. Notwithstanding this dicta in the amended panel opinion, however, the initial source of the police's description of a suspect bears no constitutional significance. It simply is not relevant, one way or another, to the question of whether state action takes place when the police act upon that description, and the panel's disposition cannot plausibly rest on that basis. Cf. Palmore v. Sidoti, 466 U.S. 429, 433 (1984) ("Private biases may be outside the reach of the law, but the law cannot, directly or indirectly, give them effect.").