Red Circle Drawn on a Hand Movement by the SUV
What This Image Shows
A frame beside the silver SUV. A man in a black polo shirt and dark trousers stands in a slightly hunched posture, gesturing near his waistline; another person carrying a brown backpack is partly out of frame on the left. Behind the vehicle sit a mound of gravel and a grey concrete wall.
A bright red digital circle has been drawn over the centre of the image, placed on his hands and waist. No text accompanies it in the frame itself. The circle is doing all of the argumentative work: it directs the viewer to look for something at a waistband in a compressed, low-resolution image where clothing folds, phone cases, radios and belt clips all read the same way.
The site reproduces the annotation because it is part of what has circulated publicly, and rejects the inference. Nothing is identifiable at this resolution, no object has been established, and no person shown is accused of carrying anything or doing anything improper. For the site's handling of similar annotated frames see Brown Shirt Puller and Persons of Interest.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Question Man
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