Mug shots, also known as booking photos, serve a few functions. One is to identify the person who was arrested — for instance, to distinguish among people who have the same name.

A screenshot of a photo of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Chief James Large holding a mug that says "Go ahead, call HR" posted on social media by Large's daughter was emailed to Mayor Ken Welch, his ...

In the photo, Mr. Trump is posed against a plain gray backdrop, just like the 11 of his fellow defendants whose mug shots were taken before him, including Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell and Rudolph ...

Before the release of Trump's mug shot, police departments and newsrooms had already been debating the ethics around publishing such photos. For most people, mug shots are taken during one of the ...

One Reddit user , whose post had amassed more than 46,000 upvotes as of this writing, shared the photo, which purportedly ...

A picture may be worth a thousand words. Donald Trump’s Fulton County mug shot is worth all that and 13 counts in the Georgia indictment filed last week. Trump, 77, is known for mugging for the ...

There are countless pictures of Donald Trump, but if New York police snap his mug shot on Tuesday, it will instantly pass into history as one of the most famous. The former president of the United ...

Below, a brief history of mug shots: 1850s: The advent of photographing criminals. The earliest mug shot (as we think of them today) was taken of a prisoner in Brussels, Belgium in 1843.

The mug shot is the first time in U.S. history that a president has had such a photo taken. Political strategists speculated that Trump’s defiant look in the mug shot was strategically used to ...

If Trump chooses to smile for the camera, he’ll fit into a history of smiley political mug shots going back nearly twenty years. It began with former Texas congressman and Republican House ...

A photo shared online in mid-February 2025 allegedly shows a framed mug shot of U.S. President Donald Trump hanging on a wall in the White House. The mug shot was taken at the Fulton County Jail ...