There is another version of this photo, of inferior picture quality but less tightly cropped, showing a policeman or soldier with a rifle standing off to the right.
They are tollerant and can often speak more than one foreign language English, Spanish, German.
I have not seen anything quite like this before.
The Baltimore judge who sent this wife-beater to the City Jail whipping post allowed journalists to be present but forbade cameras, but New York Daily News lensman Joseph Costa foiled the ban with this sneaked picture.