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Man busted in Chris Hansen sting operation wearing Trump shirt
The Badge Does the Arrest. The Shirt Does the Signaling.Power Wore the BadgeA Louisiana sheriff’s office, working with Chris Hansen, ran a child-exploitation sting and arrested Brennan Temple, who had allegedly sent explicit material to someone he believed was 15. The article lingers on Temple’s Trump shirt and Hansen’s joke about irony, then follows the arrest and the phone call to Temple’s mother.That is the surface event. The political event is the state using a highly staged humiliation ritual to display its force while inviting the audience to laugh at a chosen symbol.The Actual…
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