I can’t help seeing this image like this — a lone protestor doing something crazy and anarchistic surrounded by a semicircle of a hundred professional cameras — and wondering if this is anything like good journalism. Sure, this event happened. But it sure looks like a stunt for the cameras, rather than an organic protest event. Would this have happened were the cameras not there to see it?
In searching for a copy of this picture, I noticed that most occurrences online crop out the right-hand half of the image…
It reminds me of a similar video captured as part of the recent G20 protests in London. I’ll hunt for a copy…
Edit: you can see it here at around 4:14