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On 7 July 2016, a photograph purportedly showing Alton Sterling and two of his children holding guns was posted to the White Rights section of Reddit. There is no evidence, however, that the man pictured in this image is the same man who was shot and killed by police officers in Baton Rouge. The image displayed above has been circulating since at least 2010 (a time stamp on the image shows it was taken even earlier in 2007) when it was posted to comedian Dan Goodman's Ghetto MySpace web, where it was accompanied by several other images of this family: A few of these photographs have also been featured on Parenting Fails lists. While Goodman did not provide an exact source for the images displayed here, the pictures from Ghetto Myspace were purportedly culled from real MySpace profiles: Goodman removed the post containing these images from Ghettomyspace.net shortly after this article was published. He explained the decision in an email, writing that he wanted zero association with the community claiming that the images showed Alton Sterling: There is no evidence that this image is of Alton Sterling (it bears little more than a passing resemblance to later photographs of him) or that it came from Sterling's MySpace profile:
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