Using Suspects’ Faces, RPD Weaves Compellingly Pro-Police Narratives. It's a Practice that's Known to Cause Harm. – Shasta Scout

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Using Suspects’ Faces, RPD Weaves Compellingly Pro-Police Narratives. It's a Practice that's Known to Cause Harm. – Shasta Scout

This image is a composite created by Shasta Scout. It shows a blurred and cropped copy of RPD’s original photo of Rafael Zendejas on the left, juxtaposed with select comments from the public on the right. See RPD’s original post here. For this story, Shasta Scout reviewed more than 600 RPD social media postings shared over the last three years. While we’ve chosen to highlight only a single post it represents many hundreds more.  In the wee hours…