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[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago

Really not liking how much more information they're getting about him. DNA testing a candy wrapper left nearby, these new photos, and a potential cellphone. Seems inevitable he's caught. I hope in that case, he ends up with countless fan letters to keep his spirits up, much like our other hero. yamagami

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

Idk, seems like the two photos released are just different guys. NYPD also raided both a home and hostel. Feel like they’re just flailing.

[-] znonymous@hexbear.net 52 points 1 week ago

I am going to start a vigil for the safety and elusiveness of the shooter.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Setting up a prayer shrine for him next to my shelf of CEO voodoo dolls.

[-] Guamer@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago

timmy-pray but unironically

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

Anytime the cops are on a man hunt there is a nonzero group of people they roll up just to check. In my state they shot up several cars that vaguely matched the description of thr car Dorner was driving at the time.

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

They are doing that scene from Le Samourai when the chief of police asks every precinct to bring him 20 guys wearing a trenchcoat lmao.

[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not to be a downer, but cops will pretend to know less than they do in order to lure their target into a false sense of security, make them think they've already won, that kind of thing. I'm pretty sure they already know who the guy is and they're waiting for him to become more convenient to capture. I would LOVE to be proven wrong and that the Bicycle Assassin is legit eluding the authorities.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago

I'm hoping the assassin is already in a country that doesn't extradite to the US

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago

Cops in NYPD have an atrocious clearance rate for homicides.

But yes, they are likely trying to lure them into a false sense of security, by declaring the little evidence they have, which honestly, is all pretty circumstantial. No gun, no charge, essentially. Especially or a white person in NYC.

My hopes are that this gun came from a library, and has 10 deaths on it, already, which would put more investigative manpower behind THOSE deaths.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

That clearance rate is so low because cops don't give a shit though. They're gonna give a shit about a capitalist

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 11 points 1 week ago

I think it's more due to incompetence, myself. They didn't solve the last hot job in Manhattan, either, and pretty sure he was a broker at a hedge fund.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

They're also incompetent, I'm just saying the clearance rate could easily be higher if they actually did their job as it's described

[-] AnneVolin@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That clearance rate is so low because cops don’t give a shit though. They’re gonna give a shit about a capitalist

Their bosses are, but they aren't.

If anything they'll find some poor guy to drag in.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

No, it's because it's actually extremely difficult to find someone who covers their tracks well.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I can't believe the clearance rate is just 56% right now. In most countries it is closer to 80 or even 90%. In the UK they have the highest clearance rates for murder, even if the killer and victim were strangers.

[-] MouthyHooker@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

If he’s smart (which it seems like he is,) he changed clothes immediately after leaving the scene and then got the fuck out of Manhattan (and hopefully out of NYC entirely) 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

He could wear two sets of clothes on top of each other. Like double pants and stuff. That way he can strip off a layer and no one will know what he looks like since they only knew one layer. Also shoe prints can easily be destroyed by putting tape on the sole, which renders any shoe prints unusable.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure they already know who the guy is

why

[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago
[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not sure this is even the shooter. In the other photo they have of him from this camera, he's wearing a black backpack. In the video of the shooting, the shooter has a white backpack.

The cops may just be harassing a rando who was nearby.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Clothes are totally different, shooter had on a black hooded jacket with no pockets as well

Edit: that's not to say this isn't the person just that more info is missing. They did execute a search warrant and if it was this place maybe they were able to track it from the phone they found and ask for the surveillance footage to search for anyone matching the build leaving early in the morning

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 22 points 1 week ago

DNA testing of a candy wrapper, on a public sidewalk would be so laughed out of court by even a public defender, its amusing to think about.

The cell phone, fair chance nothing is on it, or if it's even the shooter's, which would be another thing. Its likely a burner phone, and finding a burner phone in NYC is like finding gum under a table.

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Okay but hear me out they caught a guy in The Wire by DNA testing a soda can he left behind after a shooting.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

famous real event, The Wire

Also as a biologist I gotta say I’m incredibly fucking dubious about how trace DNA is used as evidence

Like, contamination is just so easy. We had to keep a specific room where you couldn’t even touch the light switch without gloves to avoid contamination. It’s sooooo easy for stray DNA to get in your shit. And thats where the stuff I’m looking for is in relatively large pieces of tissue.

It’s the perfect mess, it sticks around long enough that it can ruin your shit, but also fragile enough that you have to be careful to not destroy it.

I just don’t trust that the tiny bit of DNA you found on an item on the street of midtown manhattan means fucking anything. I don’t feel like that tells you anything more than “This guy was in the city in the last week”

Oh you swabbed the shell casing? How do you know it didn’t roll into a puddle of spit on the sidewalk? How do you know that DNA came from the shooter? You don’t know shit.

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 21 points 1 week ago

good luck landing a conviction

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

The prosecution is going to do their best to handpick whoever they need to secure it. There's enough people who think "the guy deserved it, but its still a crime" that I don't have as much optimism. sadness

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

only need one cool liar in the jury

[-] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

God I wish that were me .jpeg

[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

Nullify Negate Neutralize

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 12 points 1 week ago

And I'd hope a group in NYC takes to the courthouse, flooding it with jury nullification information, for all potential jurors, if it ever gets to trial.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Just air dropping "Jury Nullification facts" fliers from a drone outside of every courthouse in NY

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

There's gonna be protesters outside the courthouse yelling about jury nullification lol

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They'll just murder him. I'd be astonished if they caught the right guy and tried him.

[-] MouthyHooker@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I don’t trust our “justice” system. I believe they’ll nail you to the wall if they want to. But I would think a good attorney could get the candy wrapper thrown out of evidence because anyone could have tossed it. At the very least, should be enough to make a case for reasonable doubt.

Again, this is all assuming there is a fair trial, which is a big assumption in this country.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Phone was a burner phone and the water bottle had a smudged fingerprint, the bike was not a citibike as original reported

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