The latest case which is illustrative of this problem is the one of Dexter Lawrence.

Once again, the media are sharing this high school graduation photos while the dude was twenty-six during his fatal encounter with police.

This is a form of lying from the mainstream media, and they're constantly guilty of it.

More than ten years later, most people have images of a fourteen-year-old Trayvon Martin seared into their brains, despite Martin being seventeen at the time. Do you have any teenage boys in your life? When my nephew was fourteen, I was a foot taller than me. Now, he's taller than me, and could easily kick my ass.

You can find an innocent-looking photo of anybody. If the person in question was killed because he was trying to do the killing and ended up losing the fight, it's dishonest to mine for childhood photographs. It manipulates the way that people perceive the people who may have acted in self-defense.