Skip to main content
← Scott Wilson

UVU Officer and Civilian Restraining a Man

Daylight photograph of a university police officer and a civilian restraining an older man in a blue shirt bent forward on a paved walkway

What This Image Shows​

A tense daylight photograph on a paved walkway. An older man in a bright blue long-sleeved button-down, balding with thin grey hair and silver wire spectacles, is bent forward at roughly forty-five degrees with his mouth wide open in a shout or grimace. A young man in a grey Lightning McQueen t-shirt, jeans and a charcoal cap grips his upper arm. Behind him a Utah Valley University police officer in a dark navy short-sleeved uniform shirt, with a short grey-flecked goatee, black-framed sunglasses and a gold name plate, moves in. A second officer in a black polo and khaki tactical trousers stands adjacent, holding a radio and speaking.

This is a documentary frame of a physical detention on campus, and it captures three distinct categories of person in one shot: a uniformed campus officer, an officer or contractor in a black polo, and a civilian participating in the restraint.

Who was authorised to put hands on people that day, and under whose command, is a live question in this investigation. The photograph does not name anyone, does not establish what preceded the incident, and does not establish that anyone visible acted improperly. See the cluster overview, Law Enforcement and Security Team.

More In This Cluster​