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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

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[–] leadore 150 points 1 day ago (9 children)

From the article:

Although a host of eyewitness accounts and video camera footage recorded Mangione’s movements before and after Thompson was killed in New York City on Wednesday, police said they were unable to locate him until a McDonald’s employee identified the suspect at a Pennsylvania franchise nearly a week later.

They should have said "the suspect's movements" or "the shooter's movements". Not "Mangione's movements". They are already presuming guilt by saying it was Mangione who was recorded. Newspapers used to be careful about doing this. I think they can be sued for defamation for this, can't they?

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[–] boogiebored 5 points 18 hours ago
[–] frog_brawler 30 points 1 day ago

Of course it was. He’s not the dude. Let this shit play out and become a cold case.

[–] leadore 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What if you find shooter's backpack ditched in park with jacket, gun, silencer, and fake ID used at hostel, but say it only had a jacket and monopoly money. And say that the guy probably left the state on a bus. Now you can pretty much do anything you want with any plausible-looking guy in the country you want.

I'm just asking questions! Also, most of the bags and purses you see for sale these days have a "faraday" phone bag or pocket in them, no level of sophistication required.

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[–] Sanctus 410 points 1 day ago (56 children)

Authorities are desperately trying to make an example of someone, anyone with a motive. Turns out more than half the country has one.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Luigi needs to shut the everloving fark up and let his lawyer do the talking for him. The cops are trolling him with fake evidence and he's falling for it.

"The gun WASN'T a 32 caliber, it was a 22 rimfire!" etc, etc.

[–] zib 104 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This is the correct answer. If you are arrested by police for ANY REASON, the only word in your vocabulary is now "lawyer". Remember kids, anything you say or do will be used against you.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

While this is generally good advice, it doesn't apply to public spectacle.

There's countless cases in the US where public pressure forced the government to drop charges or at least reduce sentences.

This guy has support from 99% of the people. Keeping that support is important to his defense.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Step 1 - Have an AI scrape social media looking for someone similar looking who has posted negative things about the insurance Industry.

Step 2 - sprinkle crack on them

Step 3 - ????

Step 4 - record breaking profits for health insurance corporations every year forever and ever and ever

[–] chaogomu 36 points 1 day ago (10 children)

People who know this shit have been through Mangione’s social media feeds.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

The guy likely did it. The guy's social media history puts him right in that "potential mass shooter" territory, but one more radicalized by pain rather than the right-wing shitholes of the internet.

But the part no one's talking about yet are the copycats to come. Because this guy got attention for it. Accolades even. That's part of what mass shooters want. Attention. Accolades are a wet dream for them.

At least this will be better than when they were murdering children for the shock value.


So yeah, I think "Rich asshole murdered" will become more common. If only the richest asshole in whatever Podunk little town the mass shooter was from.

And yet, I can't say that it will be a completely bad thing. If the mass shootings must happen, (and America apparently says they must) then I'd rather it be a rich asshole who bites it than a classroom full of grade schoolers.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Looks like they are trying hard to rebrand the guy image by publishing pictures where he looks off. How i'm supposed to believe the government has no plan against the people when they pull stunt like this?

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Fox news is saying people are supporting him because he's handsome and we're all a bunch of shallow morons.

Completely leaving out the fact that that CEO and others like him make decisions everyday to let people suffer and/or die for profit. To buy more yachts or whatever the fuck excessively affluent people do with money. Wipe their ass with it? Use the money from dead cancer patients who hit their lifetime maximum coverage to delicately pat their hemorrhoids clean maybe?

The media is trying so hard to spin this I hope they all get carpal tunnel from typing out all those half truths and outright lies. Then they have their claims for quality of life giving surgery denied. Then maybe they'll get it.

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[–] Carmakazi 275 points 1 day ago (16 children)

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

Prosecutors, man. Acting like he had a fucking radio jammer or something.

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