• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Frankly I still question if he’s a lookalike scapegoat so the police can save face and try to put it to bed. May also explain the odd “planted” evidence that is being mentioned.

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      2 days ago

      Eh, if he was a real random fall guy, they wouldn’t have picked a rich handsome guy in his mid 20s.

      Like, it’s almost most definitely him…

      But fuck the cops, fuck the wealthy, and fuck the healthcare industry. They need to prove it beyond reasonable doubt and all those groups are habitual liars.

      So if I was on the jury, they’d need a lot of evidence and need to be able to explain how they got it. They used some illegal spy tech shit because it’s a rich victim? Then all evidence gained after gets thrown out.

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        they wouldn’t have picked a rich handsome guy in his mid 20s.

        Why not? Luigi Mangione is closer to pleb status than billionaire status. He’s not in the class that the police protect, why would they have any qualms about framing him?

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        Yeah, and NYPD wouldn’t have gone so far out of state so quickly. If I was trying to grab a fall guy as fast as possible, I would have picked up the nearest criminal I knew that looked vaguely like him and might have had motive.

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          wouldn’t have gone so far out of state so quickly

          Nah, that part I get, they knew shooter came in on a bus, so they grab someone on a bus.

          The gun, silencer, and manifesto could have been from the central park bag.

          It’d just be crazy they wrapped the one guy on a Greyhound bus with generational wealth.

          His best defense is pushing that angle, the “but how did you find me?”

          Like, this part has barely been mentioned:

          Authorities said a customer in the restaurant thought he matched the description of the suspect in Thompson’s killing and notified an employee, who called 911.

          https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-worker-luigi-mangione-private-security-1999217

          To me it’s more likely that customer was a fed or law enforcement, they already knew he was there, they just needed a legal way to act on that. There’s been a big push to put all the blame on the fast food worker, but I have a feeling stuff like that would have kept happening and may not even have been the first person told.

          It’s no “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”, but you could build a legal defense on this that results in all charges thrown out.

    • Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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      2 days ago

      Wouldn’t shock me. Police always want things to be done in open and shut cases all of the time. Makes their job easier.