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DA says 40 UnitedHealthcare execs got bodyguards, and one dyed her hair after Luigi Mangione killed CEO Brian Thompson
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It's really not...
You cant say for sure it's him in the video, and while cops say he had a bunch of evidence on him, they also say they didn't find that evidence till after the chain of custody was violated. Nothing in his backpack is admissible.
Like, this is America bro, corrupt cops isn't anything new. They lie all the time, you can't fault the majority of Americans for not caring what they say as a result.
It's not up to you or me to say what's admissable or not. The gun in the video is the gun in the backpack. If you want to argue the cops planted it, then you have to explain how they got it.
Occams Razor - Luigi failed to ditch the gun.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-suspect-thursday-hnk
"Marked shell casings from the assassination scene match the gun found on the suspect. His fingerprints match some key items investigators found nearby. And he was arrested this week – after going silent from his mom and friends for months – with a fake ID and a handwritten “claim of responsibility” referencing the crime site."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/us/luigi-mangione-evidence-illegal-search
It might be the gun.
It might even have been in the backpack and Luigi just had it on him.
But it doesn't matter, the cops pulled a Mark Furhman. They're not used to having to follow the law, so they fuck up high profile shit.
Nothing in the backpack will be admissable. And all the evidence was from the backpack.
Ideally. Fruit of the poison tree and all that.
Shell casings from the crime scene match the gun found in the backpack. It's the same gun. See the cited article above.
If they planted the gun, shell casings wouldn't be too hard to plant either.
There's no evidence the cops knew ANYTHING about the gun until it was found in his possession.
I'm not lying here, I can't prove a negative. If you want to assert the cops planted the evidence, the burden of proof is on you.
So far, there is none.
It's not a deliberate lie to say we have photos of Mangione wearing the exact same outfit as the shooter in the same general time and place a the shooting and when he got turned in at the McDonalds, he was carrying the gun and a hand-written manifesto.
Look, I'm sorry you can't recognize reality when you see it. But the idea that the cops in New York somehow collected evidence for the cops in Pennsylvania to plant on him is absolute nonsense.
No cop had the slightest clue who he was until the McDonalds turned him in.