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Circled Abrasion and Bruising on an Upper Arm

Cropped close-up of an abrasion and raised bruise on a person upper arm, circled in purple and again in red

What This Image Shows​

A cropped close-up of an injury on a person upper arm or shoulder. The visible area shows a reddish abrasion with raw skin along its upper edge, transitioning below into a raised purplish-blue bruise. A purple digital ring has been drawn tightly around the bruise, with a larger red ring drawn around that. A white sleeve is pulled slightly aside to expose the area. Other people crowd the frame — a plaid or flannel sleeve at left, the hair and jawline of someone leaning in from above, another person hand at right, and a dark blue synthetic jacket in the upper corner. The background shows blurred vertical metal structures in bright outdoor light.

The double circling is an annotation added by whoever published the frame. Injury photographs from the immediate aftermath are collected because the pattern of secondary injuries is one of the few physical records available from the scene, and because abrasion and blast-effect injuries are argued to look different from one another. Nothing in the frame identifies who is shown or establishes when or how the injury occurred.

Described clinically and without inference here. The theoretical injury patterns proponents argue for are set out in the shockwave and reaction-timeline graphics elsewhere in this cluster, and in Microphone — The Exploding Mic Theory. For the wound-location dispute, see Cause of Death.

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