Was Photo Of
Migrant Mother 'Fleeing Tear Gas' With Children At U.S. Border Staged?
ByJoseph Curl
@josephcurl
November 26, 2018
Shortly after hundreds of migrants battled U.S. border
agents in a violent conflict on Sunday, one photo began being highlighted in
the mainstream media.
The photo shows a woman pulling her children, reportedly
fleeing tear gas fired by U.S. authorities.
Social media immediately filled with outcry. "Trump
is tear gassing babies at the border. Read that again. Trump is lobbing tear
gas canisters at mothers & children at the border. Lordy there are photos
of children running from the noxious gas. This is Trump’s America &
America’s shame. Real news, real Trump. Who wants this?" one person wrote
on Twitter.
But one observant Twitterer found some unusual things in
the very same picture posted above. In the background, it appears as if many
people are not fleeing anything, and a photographer with a camera on a tripod
appears to be taking pictures of a child running as another photographer shoots
people "posing as if fleeing."
"Look at the high resolution picture of the guys in
the back holding each other for the photographer to make it look like they are
running," wrote another.
Others expressed doubt on Reddit. "We're supposed to
believe that this person dragged those poor, pantless children 2888 miles in 45
days? Walking ~20 hours a day? And we're supposed to believe it is a totally
organic thing, not paid for by anyone?" one user wrote.
As doubt was cast on the highly publicized photo, two
well produced videos juxtaposed CNN's Jim Acosta lecturing the president about
what the reporter claimed was not an invasion.
Jim Acosta
explains that the caravan is not an invasion...
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