• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    I 100% assume that the McDonald’s employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don’t want to give away their methods.

    I have no evidence and I don’t really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.

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      3 hours ago

      That could be. I’m still vouching for the “conspiracy” that Luigi actually didn’t do anything but was selected as a lookalike scapegoat. The similar looks is what prompted the McDonald employee to call, and they incompetently called the police instead of the tip line.

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        3 hours ago

        I haven’t heard that his defense team is trying to claim that… I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.

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          What would the defense say? “That wasn’t him, just someone who looks similar.”
          They already claim that by pleading innocent at the start.

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            1 hour ago

            Not really… “not guilty” can mean, he didn’t do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden’s “yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that.” Or just the OJ Simpson “let’s talk about something else for a while and change the subject” defense. It could be a lot of things.

            But I do get it that that might be their defense and they’re just not saying anything about it because they’re waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.

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        43 minutes ago

        Oh come on. You really think rich people and the police protecting them would let a millionnaire killer run free?

        They need a scapegoat, but what they need more is the certainty that the shooter won’t do more damage.

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      4 hours ago

      Even if the tip was useful they can just claim to wasn’t and just not pay it out. Not like there’s an oversize process for it. Once they have the guy they can find the trail with whatever data they have and say they did it without the tip.

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      5 hours ago

      Ok, I’ll accept this conspiracy theory and add to it:

      It was actually the surveillance software in the AI drive through.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s like the police always saying that they find a “passport” in the truck after some terrorist attack. They have inside informers and they don’t want to disclose them.

    • 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      this isn’t a conspiracy theory to the people saying it is. these systems are well attested to exist already. predictive policing is already being used. fucking watch yourselves. big brother sees all.