White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying

The New York Times ran the image posted by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, as well as the one posted by the White House through an A.I. detection system. It concluded that the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation.

Charles Blow:

“As I wrote for the @bittersoutherner: 

‘The moment is eerily reminiscent of the Jim Crow era, when families picnicked in the shadow of lynchings and purchased commemorative postcards featuring the gruesome deeds. We have not returned to that depth of violence, to be sure. What we have now is less severe, but today’s ruthlessness stokes more widespread hostility than any hangman could have dreamed.

“There is a deliberate conspicuousness to ICE’s inhumanity. Cruelty is being performed. It is pageantry, and intentionally so. Terror craves notoriety. Indeed, it depends upon it. It must ripple. It must be vicariously experienced. That is the amplification dependency of it.’”