Perhaps he was hoping that by doing this today, there would not be much on the news about it tonight, since there is that situation in MO of the unarmed teenager being shot down in cold blood by a white police officer.
Mugshot or no. He is being viewed as a political prisoner in a way, and the mugshot becomes a non-issue.
Another shooting in St. Louis today.
Two St. Louis city police officers shot and killed a black man who came within several
feet of them brandishing a knife on Tuesday a few miles from the turbulent suburb
Ferguson, authorities said.