On Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said he wasn't bothered by the photo. Some experts say he should be.
, responsible for the shooting deaths of 13 people, including three children. And in the 1980s, then-U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani made the walk an “art form,” according to Levenson.
In Cavalcante’s case, authorities did a more traditional perp walk after they’d cleaned him up and given him a hospital gown to wear. managed to breach police perimeters and steal a van, turned him into a meme, with some finding the humor in how he could evade authorities.By posing him in a photo with authorities, Levenson said, police risked giving him the sort of attention that can be damaging to victims and their families, and increases the risk of copycats.
“Those men and women worked amazingly hard, through some very trying circumstances,” he said. “They’re proud of their work. I’m not bothered at all by the fact they took a photograph with him in custody.”
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