As the People concede, the officer did not have reasonable suspicion to detain defendant pending an identification by the eyewitness. Defendant's clothing was sharply at variance from the description of the suspect, and there was insufficient spatial or temporal proximity between the detention and the crime as well as a lack of suspicious circumstances (see, People v Brown,
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