In the viral video, the man is seen walking beside a tiger at the park before crouching to pose for a photograph.

That’s when he said he saw a man crouching in the parking lot holding a revolver. “He looked right at us, out in the open,” Swiney said. He later told police what he’d seen.

Though Porter is no stranger to making headlines, he noted that he never thought that a show like Pose would ever be a reality, but now he believes anything is possible. “There was no context ...