This particular photograph is filled with the sweeping expanse of a modern auditorium, with lines of occupied chairs leading away from the camera and terminating before a white-lit stage.
Arrayed in an orderly line, several dozen newly minted police recruits stand at rigid attention upon the platform, all clad in blue and black dress uniforms.
With a bundle of diplomas tucked under an arm, an older man with a spider's web of gray furrowing his beard stands poised before the assembly, his free hand frozen as he hands a certificate to a dark-haired Latina woman in the line's middle.
You idly wonder how these cadets fared during the riots.
Not well seems like a pretty safe bet.