• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    This makes me believe it really wasn’t him. If he actually wrote a manifesto, he’d have declared himself guilty, taken credit, and done a speech about how he was now a martyr for the cause.

    If he’s sticking to his story, then I believe him. They couldn’t find the real killer so they just went with whoever “fit the description”, as per usual.

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      9 hours ago

      Wouldn’t be surprised if he was in New York on some legitimate business, they caught him on camera at a Starbucks near the murder, blasted his image all over the news and social media, and just waited for someone to call.

      Then when they got the call, they grabbed a backpack with “evidence” and claimed he had it on him when they arrested him.

      Did anyone believe that he was wondering around for 3 days with a bag that was holding the murder weapon, fake IDs, and a hand written manifesto? He ditched another bag, and escaped on an e-bike. Why would he then run around for three days with the rest of the evidence.

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        6 hours ago

        Either he is the dumbest man alive, or the police really wanted to just go with the first guy who fit the description knowing that they’ll look like heroes to their corporate overlords, and that if another guy bites the dust they can just say it was a copycat.

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      17 hours ago

      Innocent until proven guilty. It’s the government’s job to prove him guilty. He doesn’t have to help them.

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      16 hours ago

      Personally, I am sad that is all it takes for you to believe something. Businesses, media, governments, and more are trying to make people believe things (unrelated to luigi) that aren’t true. You need to raise the bar, not lower it. Maybe you want to believe he didn’t do it, but I hope you don’t actually believe that based on so little information.

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        13 hours ago

        There’s too much that doesn’t add up, it’s just too convenient that he had the gun and manifesto on him.

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      20 hours ago

      I mean, if he can away with it while not undermining his original intentions, why not do it?

      There’s various ways he could go unpunished that would prevent a retrial and so he’d then be set up to be influential in some kind of healthcare reform.

      Heavy on the cope though.

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      1 day ago

      That doesn’t explain why he keeps mogging the camera, or what he yells to the journalist in that one video.

      I don’t know if it’s him, but I think whoever it is, is just following their lawyer’s advice, not trying to be a martyr

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        16 hours ago

        The thing is they’ve actually made a mistake charging him with terrorism. It is surprisingly narrowly defined so even without a sympathetic jury he might get a not guilty verdict for it and it weakens the whole case against him. But most of all by including it they’ve made all his intentions and politics central issues to the case. All the evidence and his statements about this will have to go into the public record. If he had pleaded guilty that wouldn’t happen nor would there be a chance for jury annulment. Pleading not guilty is simply the smarter option to take.