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Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting taken into custody after being recognized at McDonald’s
(www.theguardian.com)
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Tinfoil hat time: with the police looking increasingly incompetent with no suspect or leads, the first person apprehended who vaguely resembles the shooter is provided with a free ghost gun, fake ID, and manifesto. It's all just too "slam dunk" perfect for me to not question it.
Nah, its quite difficult to forge bodycam videos. This isn't the older era of "just put things in the person's pocket and arrest him". Too many cameras would be hard to plant so many items without getting caught.
Unless its a blackmail and he was coerced to become a scapegoat, its very hard to plant the evidence.
But if the body cam footage is missing for some reason, I'm gonna be very sus of this.
I don’t think that’s true at all. If anything, the perception that body cameras make the evidence found more solid actually increases the chances that evidence will be planted.
Multiple times now we have seen that these cameras do not record continuously. They have triggers like when the cop pulls a gun or shoots but otherwise need to be manually activated. And a lot of the time the cop knows the camera and will plant evidence before pretending to “discover” it on tape.
And we’re not talking about some random stop here. If this were to be a cover up type thing, it’d be much more carefully done. I mean not finding this guy would both embarrass police to an extreme degree and also encourage other people to do this stuff.
Whatever you do, do not underestimate the fact that elites want police to keep them safe and if some random person has to take the fall so they can say they caught someone, that’s absolutely what they’ll do.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/538279258/baltimore-police-caught-planting-drugs-in-body-cam-footage-public-defender-says
IIRC Baltimore got caught that way twice. I'm too lazy to google the other incident now though.
I always have a heightened sense of skepticism because of the fact that I came from an authoritarian and got lied to. PRC, Tiananmen, ya know the deal...
That being said, I don't think that every time the governemnt says something, its always a lie, or every time cops finds a perpetrator, its a scapegoat. Sometimes, government does tell the truth (keyword: "sometimes"). Sometimes, people do get caught.
But in my brain, events are never recorded as "This is 100% true" but more like "This is probably true according to the information I know, but there's also a chance it isnt real"
Like, theres no way we even know if history is real. Maybe the entire human history was fabricated. We never know. But its really hard to go through life thinking "Everything is a lie" so I'll just go with "Its probably true, but theres a chance it is a lie"
Ya get what I'm saying?
Nevertheless, whether this guy is the resl perpetrator or a scapegoat, ya bet I'd nullify this shit if I got on the Jury.
I thought so too, but if that's the case, why would they have him "Found" on a McD's after a call from a bystander?*
Doesn't really make the cops look competent, now does it?
*Bystander or McD employee? The news sources seem conflicted on this...
The local police responded and are holding the suspect for NYPD while they travel to interview the suspect.
Imagine being that cop and you know you are too stupid for the job haha