Debunked: Photo of James E Holmes at Occupy San Diego

Mick West

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Some of the conspiracy theorists are either grasping at straws, or just making things up:



For a start it's not San Diego, it's New York, the Brooklyn Bridge, Occupy Wall Street. Here's the original:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223...otestors-blocked-brooklyn-bridge-photos-p.htm





The carried protestor is actually Ari Cowen:

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/the_world_we_want_to_see/


It seems like whoever made the hoax image simply trolled through all the images they could find of Occupy protesters until they found one that had a superficial resemblance, and then used a low resolution version of the image to hide their deception. Presumably the hoaxer had some kind of anti-Occupy motive.
 
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