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Writes Radley Balko: “Believe it or not, there was a time when people would have doubted a picture like this could have been taken in America. No one would believe it — probably some third-world despot or Eastern European dictatorship. In fact, it was taken in Durham, North Carolina by a college photojournalist, and recently won the ‘Spot News’ category of the College Photographer of the Year competition.”

Get the full story from Radley right here. And thanks, Claire Wolfe, for the tip.