• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    That’s such an obviously bad take

    The guy was carrying groceries. He obviously wasn’t one of the student protestors, which completely invalidates the point about his white shirt

    If they wanted journalists to witness it, why did they search all of them and confiscate all pictures and footage of the incident? One of the few surviving photos were famously taken and smuggled out by Jeff Widener Charlie Cole. He hid his negatives in the tank of his toilet, which prevented the CCP finding them. Stuart Franklin hid his photo in a box of tea to smuggle it out

    The explanation that Tank Man escaped is suspicious, because it’s widely agreed the CCP made him disappear

    Edit: Clarified information about photo, and a bit about Stuart

    Edit 2: It was Charlie Cole that kept his photo by hiding it in the toilet. Jeff Widener smuggled his out by giving it to a hotel guest to bring to the diplomatic compound