This is a screenprint of a video thumbnail preview of an online ITN News story from early last month. Grammatically, the caption is decidedly imprecise:
The syntax used makes it appear that the protest is against naked bullfighting, a pastime that rather makes the mind boggle.* A simple alteration to the word order ― Naked protest against bullfighting ― would resolve this and still let ITN position the word naked prominently.
However, naked is a problem here, since the protester at the front is clearly not naked. Thus there's inaccuracy as well as imprecision in the caption. Further investigation reveals that the protesters, animal rights supporters in Mexico, never intended to remove their underwear…
* Mindboggling or not, it is a fact that some people do take all their clothes off to do bullfighting. Famously, or perhaps notoriously, there's some nude bullfighting in the Spanish film Jamón Jamón (1992), although apparently the scene takes place at night, so it's impossible to tell. If you're desperate, YouTube has some video footage of an almost naked bloke (he's wearing trainers and socks) trying simultanously to avoid being knocked down by a bull (he fails) and to hide his bits behind a red cape.
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