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A cruel middle finger to America? Or simply a crude gesture from a kid? The image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with his middle finger up for a security camera in 2013 became a flash point today in the Boston Marathon bomber's sentencing trial. Jurors saw video of the incident, during which he paces in his cell, looks into the lens and fixes his hair in the reflection. Tsarnaev then briefly makes what the defense called a "V sign," followed by the middle finger and walks away. Prosecutors characterized the photo as encapsulating Tsarnaev's "callous" character. The defense said he was just a teenager looking at himself in a mirror. What do you think? Tweet us using #TheShortList. Here's what else happened in court today.