https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/cavalacante-police-group-photo.html
After an intensive search, fugitive Danelo Cavalcante was seen posing for a photo with 24 law enforcement officers. Mr. Cavalcante had escaped a prison in Philadelphia and had disappeared into the wilderness back in 2017 after a connection to a murder in northern Brazil.
After 2 weeks of searching the latest lead, a forest in Chester County, Pennsylvania, hundreds of law enforcement officers used drones and dogs to eventually capture him in about 5 minutes.
Upon his capture, all of the officers decided to take a large group photo and was captured on camera. Some of the media felt that it was wrong to take the picture since Mr. Cavalcante seemed to have had a rather expressionless face and disturbed look, but this has happened many times before. Some considered it to be an event not about memorializing but this search had been going on for quite some time so it was something worth celebrating.
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You sort of address whether or not this is news, but you could
go further. You could ask whether or not the officers should
have taken the photo, and whether or not all the fuss that
followed is news. Who was hurt? Who was affected? Is this
another example of people (seemingly) having to complain
about everything.