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As long as they had a sample of his hand writing, which wouldn't be too hard to get, it would be easy enough to take. Discrepancies could be blamed on his back injury. Any police officer can pull up drivers license records, and those usually have a signature in them. You could extrapolate a handwriting style just from a signature. Or maybe it's just in block lettering so hand writing is less distinctive.
And again, we're dealing with a department that has literally been caught on camera planting evidence on people. They're not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.
No, a handwriting sample is not easy to get. It generally requires a search warrant, which means you can name the suspect before they are arrested, which didn't happen here.
A driver's license signature is not a handwriting sample, unless the manifesto consists only of Mangione signing his name over and over again all over the page. There are plenty of other letters, capitals, etc that they cannot reproduce.
Yes, cops are sometimes dumb enough to plant evidence. But they generally do this to the defenseless, not people from wealthy families who can hire someone like Johnny Cochrane.
Which is another major hole in this theory: if the NYPD were looking for someone to frame, why not frame someone who cannot afford to defend himself?
Why wait days for a phone call from an Altoona McDonald's, when there are plenty of people they could frame right then and there in NYC?
Why finally choose someone located 300 miles from NYC, considering that a randomly chosen person in that McDonald's was likely in central PA during the murder and thus would have an airtight alibi?
Why forge a handwritten manifesto when they could easily avoid suspicion by using a typewriter?
I mean, instead of spending days in Central Park, they could have spent 10 minutes searching the Fediverse for "guillotines" and "my medical debt" to find at least a dozen defenseless New Yorkers with a legit written history of advocating death to the wealthy and genuine animus against health insurance.
But no, instead they chose to frame some random guy. And because cops love extra work, they chose a random white, wealthy guy instead of a poor POC like they usually do. For an extra challenge, they even chose a young, attractive guy instead of someone less sympathetic like Ted Kaczynski.
Your theory requires the NYPD to spend a lot of effort making a lot of risky bets that could backfire and destroy their case, for no reason at all.