I heard Navarro has an excution photo blown up on his walls at home. Why would anyone do that?
This is true, he had this image as custom wallpaper in his home as a bachelor but it is not as sinister as you may think. One of Navarro’s favorite filmmakers is Woody Allen. He particularly likes Stardust Memories and there is a scene in that film where the Pulitzer Prize winning photo from the Vietnam War era of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan holding a gun to a prisoner’s temple is blown up to cover an entire wall. In a bit of a morbid homage, Navarro had custom wallpaper made of the same photo. The photograph still causes strong memories and emotional sparks on the viewer but here is some background on the photo: at the time of the photograph, Loan was the national police chief and chief of police in Saigon. Loan demonstrated his military skills as a pilot, chief of staff to the commander of the South Vietnamese Air Force, and as a leader in special ground combat assignments. The Viet Cong captain shot by Loan was in civilian clothes and had been captured in the act of murdering a police
