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The police may have downsampled before releasing and the website may have downsampled before posting to save bandwidth.

> Do you see any visible fingerprints on the photo? I don't.

The photo accompanying the article has the fingers blurred out. In the original photo the fingers must have been clearly visible, because that’s how the police are claiming they identified the man.

It's motion blur, evident from the blurring of the letters. Unless the police added motion blur to the entire photo (why?), they would appear to be stretching the truth.

If you look at the full size image there's at the very least a large portion of palm print fairly visible. That's enough if you have a palm print, I assume.