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[–] 210 points 1 year ago (28 children)

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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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They didn't track him down because he wasn't the shooter.

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  • [+] -18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It can't be luigi because he was at my house at that time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I do think they couldn't catch the killer, and they needed a scapegoat just to make an example out of someone.

    No need to track down your scapegoat; especially not when you just found someone's cringy but fitting manifesto online.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Welcome to McDonalds
    Would you like to report any serious crimes today?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A good defense team doesn't go around screaming what their defense strategy is going to be. Just because they aren't telling YOU, doesn't mean they have a bad defense strategy. They drop their bombs when the time is right.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The method that totally wouldn’t have been used was to have a foreign ally in Five Eyes track all cell phones and correlate the information with security cameras. Then they share the intelligence with the US. Technically on the edge of legal but they know the shit storm if americans generally knew how surveilled they are. We literally would hand them all our related files, ask them to spot suspects, and hand us back the answer. The soaking version of surveillance.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Part of the point of the Snowden leaks was that they don't completely give a shit about those limitations. I'm sure the details vary in various parts of the apparatus, but as I understand it they don't even really bother with the fig leaf anymore (even as of that pretty long ago time at this point).

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