EditorialEmergency workers treat a man who had been beaten after being mistakenly identified as a thief in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times)
EditorialDonald Trump, then the president-elect, is flanked by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, left, and the venture capitalist Peter Thief during a meeting in New York on Dec. 14, 2016. (Kevin Hagen/The New York Times)
EditorialPhillip Andrew Santiago as a thief who robs the home of a film star in “Miami Motel Stories” in Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 6, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialAshlee Latimer, also known as Mx. Thief, the gender-neutral alias who has been posting memes and motivational notes on the @LTMusical twitter account since the 2017 off Broadway run of “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical," at the Longacre Theater in New York, Dec. 30, 2019. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)