No matter how the case turns out, the memory of Dominque Strauss-Kahn’s “perp walk” is likely to endure: an unshaven defendant staring straight ahead, handcuffed and in rumpled clothes, flanked by stony-faced police officers as he leaves a New York precinct through a gauntlet of photographers on his way to court.
In his home country, France, where the press is prohibited from publishing photos of defendants in handcuffs unless the person is convicted, the image and its potential lingering effects triggered outrage. A former French justice official, in news accounts, called the photos “incredibly brutal, violent and cruel.”
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