• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    The thing is Stephen King recently told a story in Billy Summers about how a triggerman fades into the woodwork after a pro hit. And King is someone who only does a bit of research (contrast someone like Chuck Palahniuk).

    So yeah, someone who is not quite dressed like the guy getting caught on camera and then held up by police as a suspect sounds like the police being lazy.

    It’s a hired killer. Follow the fucking money.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    From what I can gather the disgruntled insurance victim was wearing some of the most generic high end clothing for the new york area. There are so many people running around with similar clothing that they are probably just throwing pictures out there looking for a scapegoat they can destroy.

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      20 days ago

      Doubt, I hope this guy gets away but I believe all the video clips and photos realaed are definitely the guy who pulled the trigger. The police are good at tracking someone down if a rich person gets hurt or killed

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        20 days ago

        They’re not even wearing the same jacket. One is a hoodie and the other is a military style, zip-up jacket. It takes about 10 seconds to identify 10 differences in their clothing.

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          You don’t think it’s possible that someone who seems to have gone into decent effort planning this out didn’t bring two jackets?

          Wearing one jacket most of the time and the other while you actually are doing the crime seems like a good idea to me.

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            20 days ago

            Why would he choose two different jackets of similar enough style to catch the attention of anyone reviewing security footage? That type of decision doesn’t seem to be one that would be made by someone as obviously competent as the shooter.

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              That’s a good point but I still don’t think it’s out of the realm of possibilities, I think a lot of things will remain unclear unless he gets caught. Hopefully he never gets caught and this can remain an interesting mystery

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        19 days ago

        You overestimate the cops’ competency. They’re mostly fascist dumbfucks who only manage to have a career because they’re willing to beat or evict all the poor people the department tells them too. They don’t solve many cases in general

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        20 days ago

        He could just come to my house and want for nothing, lol. It’d take about 3 weeks but he’d have a new SS#, ID, and quite a bit of cash in his pocket. This dude has the overwhelming majority of the country on his side. If he went to a Trump-hostile nation, I’d imagine they’d also use him as a torture-poke to jab at Trump regularly.

        Bro’s got a shit ton of options.

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        20 days ago

        I’m gonna be leaving a glass of warm milk and cookies outside my door in case he needs some dinner. Its accidental! Not aiding or helping in anyway. If he doesn’t drink it I’ll have it in the morning when I remember about it.

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    21 days ago

    Haha, he looks like a young version of my partner. He’s hot and this makes me realise I definitely have a type.

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    21 days ago

    Sorry, I just don’t think it’s him, different backback straps and pockets where there weren’t any before, this is turning into another Boston bomber misidentification. But this time it’s the NYPD instead of reddit making the mistake

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    21 days ago

    Do some people here not realize that if we start allowing this kind of extra-judiciary assassinations, it’s not only going to happen to who you think are the bad guys? Next one could be an opposition party leader or the spokesperson of a minority defense non-profit.

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      21 days ago

      To be fair, noone allowed it, it just kind of happened. And this is just kind of something that happens after things reach a tipping point in society, it’s happened throughout our entire history in one form or another and will be happening all the way into the year 50 million assuming we make it that long

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      21 days ago

      Or maybe even schools. How will we cope when they start going after our kids? Going after women’s healthcare providers? God, when will this end…

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      21 days ago

      Do some people here not realize that if we start allowing this kind of extra-judiciary assassinations

      The fact that he’s wanted for murder and is the subject of an active manhunt seems to suggest that extrajudicial assassinations are not, in fact, allowed. In fact, I might be so bold as to suggest that the justice department generally frowns on them.

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      21 days ago

      What moral highground are you trying to hold onto?

      Here in America we have normalized supporting a genocide. We normalized slavery and torture in our prisons. We normalized extrajudicial killings of anyone we pin with the label “terrorist”.

      Normalizing extrajudicial killings of our oligarchs is a step in the right direction and helps to fix all the other problems. We need more heroes.

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      21 days ago

      We’ve allowed it for decades. There’s just handwringing now that it happened to a shitbag ceo instead of happening to an unarmed black man at the hands of the police.

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    21 days ago

    If he gets caught, he should slow roll the trial as looooooong as he can…

    … And run for President in 2028 🇺🇸

    Felonies don’t matter anymore… obviously. He has a platfom I’d like to hear more of.

    Clearly has a face that would look good on a campaign poster.

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      By being a felon he’s already prequalified to be president. The problem is I don’t think he’s old enough yet, even in 2028.

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        20 days ago

        Their laws are worth less than the paper they’re written on. Fuck em. He’s old enough if he gets enough votes. We’re already letting millions of mentally ill fascists elect criminally corrupt sociopaths.

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          Oh totally in agreement. But if we pretend for a moment that the law matters (it doesn’t) I don’t think this guy will be 35 in 2028.

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            This likely isn’t even the guy as others have been pointing out.

            Too many clothing mismatches, backpack straps, pockets, different from the shooting site.

            The NYPD just needs to arrest… Someone.

            A low level owner was targeted and killed by a peasant in one of their centers of power, New York City. That isn’t allowed to stand.