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Amid intensifying public debate about the right of NFL players and others to protest against police brutality and social injustice, a photograph emerged online in late September 2017 appearing to show a young black man kneeling at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The web site America's Freedom Fighters wrote: The earliest postings of the photograph that we could find were around the same time on 27 September 2017, first in a Reddit group called The Donald at 9:50 Eastern time. The caption says only that the scene of the image is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and does not provide a date or any further details. About thirty minutes after that, the Facebook page Salute Media posted what appeared to be a screenshot of an earlier version of the photograph, along with a caption that read: After publication of this article, Katie Wiederhoeft contacted us to explain that she had taken the photograph. It was originally posted to her Facebook page at 1:03 A.M. on 27 September. In an e-mail, she told us that she took the photograph while visiting Arlington earlier that day: In response to a question under her Facebook post, Wiederhoeft confirmed that the man had been recording a video during the ceremony. It's possible that the man was both protesting and recording a video when Wiederhoeft's photograph was taken. It's also possible that he was kneeling to get a better angle for his video, or in order to steady his hands while he recorded. Without further evidence, and without being able to speak with the man in the photograph, we cannot say with any authority what exactly might have prompted or motivated his kneeling, although we know from the person who took the photograph that he was recording a video. The public is requested to remain silent and standing during the wreath-laying ceremony, so the person in this image appears to not be adhering to that request.
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