• magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    As much as I dislike them calling, I can’t really be mad at someone who’s making minimum or near-minimum wage for being tempted by the reward money. There’s a good chance they’re living paycheck to paycheck.

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        5 days ago

        Have a little faith in humanity? If it’s a 19 year old working through college that’s basically their whole 4 year tuition and them some in that area

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          Didn’t say I didn’t have faith. But the likelihood they will have much in a years’ time is extremely low.

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          You must not know how much tuition is. That’ll cover a year at a place like NYU. Maybe 2 years for an out-of state school.

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      Well this guy literally had all incriminating evidence on him. With that level of carelessness, he’s gonna get caught sooner or later. Like the pulling the mask down is just asking for trouble.

      Maybe he just wanted to chill a bit and see himself famous before eventually planning to let himself get caught. Who knows?

      I mean, he might just wanna let himself get caught to not have the blame pinned on a scapegoat.

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        Having all the incriminating evidence on him seems… Extremely unlikely considering the rest of what we know about the situation.

        That’s the type of shit you’d expect from desperate police planting evidence. Planting a random suppressor, a supposedly “phantom” 3d printed gun, and a manifesto isn’t exactly hard. Only the gun could possibly be directly traced to the bullets fired, and that’s not something they can test in the field.

        Not saying that’s necessarily the case here, but this would not be the first time law enforcement, including the FBI, planted evidence because of outside pressures.

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          Ehh…

          I mean, there’s probably CCTV footage of him chillin’ in the McDonalds, and also the bodycam footage of the cops entering the Mcdonalds and searching him. Its not that easy to plant a bunch of evidence with all those cameras aroung, and creating a bunch of fake bodycam footage isn’t really that easy. So as long as they release those video footage, I’d believe this is the guy.

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            Do they plant the evidence on him in the McDonald’s, or is it just in a bag at the station and it’s “found on him” when they search him there? Planting it publicly seems hard. Would have to give every officer a bag of “evidence” or know who was going to respond to the call. Besides the whole not getting seen planting it by the public.

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              I think its standard operating procedure to search a suspect right after detaining to make sure he doesn’t have weapons, so I’d assume its all on the bodycam footage.

              Well, if they release bodycam footage of the arrest right at the mcdonalds and also the searched conducted in the same footage, without any cuts, then I’d believe it.

              If theres any cuts, or weird video artifacts, or if experts say the footage could be faked, then I’m gonna be very sus.