About

Knife Wielding Kid is a photoshop meme based on a screen captured image of teenager Logan Clark moments before he was shot by campus police for threatening other students with knives.

Origin

On December 7th, Nevada high school student Logan Clark was shot in the shoulder by campus police after attacking other students with knives. That day, Twitter user @evanyuson uploaded a video of Clark swinging the knives, followed by a video in which he is shown laying on the ground after being shot.^[7]

Spread

The following day, a video of Clark laying on the ground after being shot was subsequently reuploaded to Liveleak.^[6] On December 9th, a thread about the incident was submitted to 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board, where some users began replying with photoshopped pictures of the attacker (shown below).^[2]

That day, 4chan moderator Swaglord posted a picture of Carter holding the knives with the caption "teleports behind u" (shown below). That day, Redditor Brobi_WanKenobi submitted the post to /r/4chan,^[1] where it gathered 1,000 votes (95% upvoted) and 50 comments within five days. On December 10th, Clark's father condemned the police officer who shot his son, claiming he did not need to use lethal force. In the coming days, several other threads featuring photoshops of Clark were posted on 4chan.^[3][4][5]

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