Online, she found a 2011 article from the DemocratandChronicle of Rochester describing Mann's being named a knight of the French Legion of Honor, a gesture bestowed by the French government to thank the veterans who helped liberate France.
But the man in the picture, Shane Keller, tells the DemocratandChronicle newspaper of Rochester that it was actually taken in his basement in Brighton, a relatively well-to-do suburb with low crime that is nowhere near the poor neighborhoods that were the subject of the photo essay.