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So how did they catch him?
Was it the thousands of hours of NYPD overtime, for cops walking around central park? No.
Was it Sherlock Holmes style detective work? No.
Someone dropped a dime on him, while he was eating his McMuffin.
And he conveniently had the weapon and his manifesto on him.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113613850822947257
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioAll the CSI is just to tie the story together:
* This ID is the one used to check into the hostel
* This silenced pistol matches the one that made these spent shell casings found at the scene
* This manifesto gives motive
If he had gotten rid of that evidence, it would be harder to make a case.
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Today in justice:
* They did find the man that killed the Healthcare CEO. Because they made the whole country "be on look out" (BOLO) for him.
* They didn't find the man that killed an immigrant on the same day. No info shared.
* The man that choked a Black man to death was found "not guilty"
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@mekkaokereke "We don't mind murdering shits as a rule. They just have to be the right kind."
@alexanderhay
"rule of law" has always been a misdirection. it's always been about vibes.
@mekkaokereke
@mekkaokereke thank you. It’s valuable to remind a lot of folks about the many lies embedded in the white supremacist line ‘All Lives Matter’
@MargaretD @mekkaokereke CEO lives matter even more!
"Some Lives Are More Equal Than Others"
@MargaretD @mekkaokereke First time I saw that, it reminded me of "every customer is our top priority" in that, no not every customer is the top priority, and only someone who is okay with deprioritizing less important people would say shit like that.
And hey, that's exactly what they wanted to convey about which lives matter.
They're fine with some lives not mattering at all, and see no need to every change it.
So far, the point of this thread seems to have been missed.
If a person of color or some other marginalized person had been killed on the same spot would all of the same resources have been spent? If the killer was white in that scenario would he go to jail? Would it grab the headlines?
@mekkaokereke would love to understand what happened in that jury room, as they hung on manslaughter, got that dismissed, and then acquitted on the lesser charge anyway. (I guess jury nullification isn't as rare as I thought.)
I know, I know -- racism! But the killing happened in front of witnesses, on video. Did jurors come out and say to each other, "well he was black so I'm voting to acquit"? I just don't see how else you get there in a case as open-and-shut as this one.
@aburka @mekkaokereke These days? It would not be surprising at all. This is the time of monsters.
@mekkaokereke Today, injustice.
@mekkaokereke And how many people died of lack of insurance?
It begs the question... Since everything was so meticulously planned, did he want to be caught?
Otherwise, why keep this evidence, and the manifesto?
Does he want to take a stand in court and fully expose his motive publicly?
@Lily_and_frog @mekkaokereke I think he must have wanted to be caught, keeping the evidence meant that his manifesto would be the one to be connected to the case, if it's ever released or leaked. He wouldn't want a lookalike to get credit for it, people who write manifestos want credit. He was prepared to be caught.
@Lily_and_frog @mekkaokereke being this public can only be to avoid a couple of accidentally disabled body cams.
Someone in my circle suggested that he might be trying to control the narrative.
They have to enter the manifesto into evidence because it was found on his person.
Which suggests that he did want to be found and in court.
We will see.
My hope is that the longer this case and the trial stays in the public eye, the longer the public discusses alternatives to our current health insurance system.
@Lily_and_frog @mekkaokereke
The alternative hypothesis is that this is a patsy — much easier to control the narrative without the real assassin in the picture
There's a fine line between speculation and going into wacko conspiracy theories. I think you might be standing on it.
The Police and the media do lie all the time and we have little confidence if them. But they usually lie by ommission: what they say is true, but don't mention everything, and use emotive language. The police does that usually to cover their back when they fuck up.
But going as far as creating a suspect out of the blue, I'd say unlikely.
And going into this kind of hypothesis, the possibilities are litterally infinite!
There, one I just pulled out of thin air:
he could be an accomplice acting as a decoy, whether knowingly from the suspect or acting independently...
I think it's wiser sticking to the known fact, accepting them as true, but yet always be open to the possibility not everything will be in the public domain.
@Lily_and_frog @mekkaokereke
> There's a fine line between speculation and going into wacko conspiracy theories. I think you might be standing on it.
Yeah
Be careful ;-)
I don't remember who said this but "always keep you mind open, but not too open as your brain will fall off"!
All their policing boiled down to the willingness of a witness to come forward.
Interesting enough, a lot of the discourse we see online indicates that people wouldn’t have wanted to come forward.
Those are the dynamics that can make or break an investigation like that.
Sounds like you are giving tutelage to the terrorists that may want to come in his footsteps you terrorist sympathiser you!
But seriously, discard your weapon and don't use real ID is like crime101.
Apparently it was a fake ID with fake name. It was the one used to check in to that hostel.
@mekkaokereke @n_dimension Discard your used fake ID too.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io a guy who orchestrates an assassination with this level of attention to detail and doesn't ditch the evidence is a guy who wants to get caught.
or is a patsy.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io @breadcat well that part seems pretty definite
@mekkaokereke I'm gonna be a real hard sell that this is the guy. He's *A* guy with a grudge against the healthcare industry, sure. But *THE* guy? I don't know, anyone with the ability to plan ahead enough to carve words on bullets and plant a backpack of monopoly money on the scene probably knows to ditch the weapon (...which the cops are now trying to plant, because that's what cops do).
@mekkaokereke after doing such a clean exit at first, i expected him to have place to lay low for weeks or months if needed, not to go around in public with everything to make the case to send him to life in prison on him (or worse), it's like he wanted to be caught after all? Maybe remorse about the killing, maybe wanting to actually make political case, or maybe he's more confused than we though.
@tshirtman @mekkaokereke Considering his personal background (his family is very rich and has invested a lot in nursing homes and hospitals among other business ventures & his cousin is a Republican state rep) it seems quite possible he wanted to embarrass his family as some sort of revenge.
@tshirtman @mekkaokereke Maybe he wants to go to jail so he can get healthcare.
I love the fact that most of us are so kind and optimistic, that even when discussing the barbarity of US prisons and jails, and the dystopian horror of US healthcare... that the idea that the US would lock people up and not provide them with free healthcare, doesn't even occur to people.
Like that would be so evil, that people just assume that US prisons and jails must provide free healthcare. Right? But they don't.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113625595083922740
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/08/29/fees-limit-healthcare-access/
@mekkaokereke To be more specific, the pistol fires the same type of ammunition as the shooter's pistol, which is one of the most common cartridges in the entire world. "Ballistics forensics" matching has always been pseudoscience.
The evidence is thus "the suspect was in possession of a firearm that could have been used to do the crime", which isn't nothing, but "this is the murder weapon" is not supportable without a uniquely identifying feature. Like the Shinzo Abe weapon.
@mekkaokereke I’ve been thinking about all the facial recognition software that must’ve been used and somehow it didn’t match against his public X profile picture.
@mekkaokereke a few salient points
@mekkaokereke he's arguing it was planted. i believe him if only because there's no way the killer went to all that trouble with the fake backpack full of monopoly money, only to get arrested at McDonald's with all the evidence on him
@mekkaokereke carrying all that sounds like it's as if he wanted to get caught