Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Minnesota State Patrol

Minnesota State Patrol

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Feb 2021 at 23:15:47 (UTC)

Original – Minnesota State Patrol troopers during the George Floyd protests in 2020

Reason: High-quality, story-telling image. (Sort of makes you quiver a bit.)
Articles in which this image appears: George Floyd protests
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: Tony Webster

Support as nominator – AllegedlyHuman (talk) 23:15, 6 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I personally don't like this photo, it portrays the police as "bad oppressive guys". --Gnosis (talk) 00:26, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well, but they are sometimes. --Andrei (talk) 19:19, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a valid reason to oppose, Gnosis. AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:24, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It lacks illustrative human interest. --Gnosis (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Given your other two comments (fear that the police look like "bad guys" and subsequent defense of the police warning that "criminals will eat us alive,"), along with your deceptive reformatting of comments [1], I'm not willing to assume that this is a good-faith criticism of the photograph itself, as I am with Sca (who you copied word-for-word). AllegedlyHuman (talk) 20:42, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you get robbed, you run to the police! Without them around, criminals eat us alive. --Gnosis (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Since they're all in riot gear that conceals their faces, this snap lacks illustrative human interest. – Sca (talk) 13:57, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Andrei (talk) 19:19, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Good for the article, but not up to FP standards - just a haphazardly framed snapshot. --Janke | Talk 15:13, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. Given what happened to Gnosis, I will not have my oppose on the basis of "it makes the police look bad", although I have that same opinion. I just don't think it represents the police well, and it is not a broad portrayal of the protests. It makes it as if the entire impact of the protests were caused by police (seeing how the guards raid the entire frame), when it obv isn't the case. It does look good tho IMO. Gerald WL 16:28, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think I've ever heard reasoning for an FP oppose vote include the phrase "It does look good, though." AllegedlyHuman (talk) 17:41, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.8% of all FPs} 17:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Striking image! Kestreltail (talk) 18:58, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:17, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]