All articles tagged with #visual forensics
The Washington Post’s Visual Forensics team analyzes surveillance video that shows ICE agents tailing a white work van and then approaching on foot in Houston, reconstructing the minutes before and after the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and illustrating how video analysis informs discussions about use of force in immigration enforcement.
A Washington Post Visual Forensics analysis shows Elias Irizarry, a Pentagon counterterrorism appointee, moving through restricted Capitol grounds and climbing through a broken window with a metal pole during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot; he later pleaded guilty to trespassing and was pardoned by Donald Trump.
Images circulating on social media purport to show U.S. land mines scattered in a southern Iranian residential area near Shiraz, described by experts as the first such deployment by American forces in more than two decades; confirmation and verification of the claim are ongoing.
Iran intensified its retaliatory strikes against American allies in the Persian Gulf and Israel, hitting sites in at least nine countries since the start of the U.S.-Israeli attack; within 36 hours it struck every GCC member, targeting airports and at least three ports and damaging residential towers, luxury hotels, and roads, according to satellite imagery and videos used by The Washington Post’s Visual Forensics team.
Washington Post visual-forensics analysis of multiple angles shows eight federal agents wrestled Alex Pretti in Minneapolis; one later surfaced with Pretti’s gun, and seconds after, shots were fired, with unclear whether other officers realized the weapon had been disarmed.