Biography
Shelby Ligons, 22, of Nashville, charged August 3, 2020 with malicious destruction of property by fire after she set fire to a poster reading slogans against police and placed it inside a window of the Nashville Metro Courthouse on May 30, 2020. Pleaded guilty; 12 months and 1 day federal prison + 3 years supervised release + $500 restitution.
Portrait provenance
Shelby Ligons wearing a white head covering and medical mask, from Joe Wenzel’s August 4, 2020 WSMV report on the Nashville Metro Courthouse case. WSMV explicitly captions this photograph with Ligons’s name and credits it as “Photo submitted”; the individual photographer is not identified. This is a masked photograph, not an unobscured headshot. Original-pixel upper-body crop, 285 by 375 pixels from the original 887 by 554 pixel photograph, without enlargement, retouching, unmasking or generated details.
