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  • 2018-10-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Sheriff's Dept. Dress Arrestees in Nike Shirts for Their Mugshots? (en)
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  • On 11 October 2018, activist Shaun King posted a series of mugshots purportedly taken by the Union County Sheriff's Department in Arkansas showing various arrestees dressed in Nike attire. King reported, via a source, that the sheriff was dressing individuals in Nike shirts for their mugshots as a way to mock the company and their new brand ambassador, Colin Kaepernick: The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the Union County sheriff's office removed all mugshots from their web site shortly after King's tweet went viral: As of this writing, the Jail Roster at the Union County Sheriff's Department is indeed void of mugshots: However, we did find several of these photographs on arrests.org, a website that collects mugshots from county sheriff's offices from around the country. In addition to locating several of the mugshots that were originally posted by King, we also found eight additional mugshots taken in Union County, Arkansas showing recently arrested individuals in similar Nike clothing: A number of conservatives called for a boycott of the apparel company in September 2018 after Nike featured Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL star who became a lightning rod for controversy when he started to kneel during the National Anthem in protest of police brutality in 2016, in a new advertisement. Sheriff Roberts told Little Rock television station KLRT that these mugshots were not connected to any Nike protests but rather were simply provided to people who came into the jail without proper attire: The Union County Sheriff's Department also posted a news release with this information on Facebook: The mugshots available via Arrests.org only date to the end of August 2018, and the earliest mugshot that we could locate involving a Nike Athletics shirt was posted on 13 September 2018. As Union County Sheriff's Department has removed the mugshots from their website, we are unable to verify Roberts' statement that this shirt was in use for several months prior. Many of the individuals pictured above also appear to be wearing clothing underneath their Nike shirts, which could indicate they were perhaps not supplied with Nike-branded clothing because they lacked proper attire. We've reached out to the Union County Sheriff's Department in an attempt to determine what classifies as improper attire. It should be noted that our examination of the mugshots on Arrests.org didn't yield any specific patterns about who was given Nike shirts to wear. The vast majority of mugshotted by the Union County Sheriff's Department between 1 September 2018 and 11 October 2018 were not wearing Nike shirts. (en)
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