FALSE: "Walter James Palmer (killer of Cecil the Lion) sitting next to the Trump's at the GOP convention"
2016 Republican National Convention at Cleveland, Ohio.
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After someone was convinced he/she saw Walter James Palmer in a CNN video at the GOP convention several sites
copied this 'news'. Twitter and Facebook took it (as always) like candy and were screaming on many timelines.
A friend asked me if it was really our lion-killing dentist, Walter Palmer. As I am experienced with photo/video analysis I dug into the story.
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Let's take a look at the short footage shown on CNN;
This guy (let's call him mr. X for now) is NOT sitting next to the Trump's but just walking by.
I must admit, he really does look a lot like Walter Palmer indeed..
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First I placed both heads together to make a visual comparisation:
--> Different shape of forehead.
--> Different nose.
--> Different hair.
--> Different neck-skin.
--> Man on left wears some sort of ear-piece.
--> Different ear.
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Next thing was to overlay both heads with 50% transparancy;
This sure looks legit and fitting, but keep in mind that the top-layer (Walter) was re-shaped in order to fit the underlaying head.
What I noticed here was;
- same mouth
- different shape of rear head
Something about the ear...
So I made a close-up comparisation of the ears;
We see here that the shape of the inner upper part of the ears is NOT the same shape.
A human ear is like a fingerprint, by the way.
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The guy on the video has a lot less wrinkles in his face then Walter, but people said it was possible he had visited a plastic surgeon.
Only a couple weeks ago there was a recent photo of Walter released;
We clearly see he still has his wrinkles here..
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SUMMARY OF DIFFERENCES:
- shape of forehead
- shape of nose
- upper inside of ear
- wrinkles
- wrinkles around eye
- shape of hairline
- shape of back of the head
- wrinkles around the cheek
- way in which neck-skin forms
- length of hair (minor evidence)
- different glasses (minor evidence)
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The guy in the CNN video is NOT Walter James Palmer, but a security guard of some type as he clearly
wears some sort of earpiece used to communicate.
The guy in the suit also wears a pin which looks like a secret service type of pin (difficult to enhance).
NOTICE: This is my personal opinion based on the above facts.