• ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    14 days ago

    That’s absolutely not him, jacket and backpack are both different colors. This dude has a black backpack and beige jacket, shooter had a gray backpack and black jacket.

    Like, it’s not even close, NYPD is just harassing a random guy.

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      14 days ago

      They really don't have shit on him. First the Citi bike bullshit, then they found "a" phone, now theyre posting the wrong picture.

      I really think our guy might get away with this

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        13 days ago

        I watched the video. Dude is a pro and is definitely getting away with it.

        People are all harping over the etching on the shell casings but like there have been numerous hitmen throughout history who have left calling cards and not been captured.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          13 days ago

          My money is still on “disgruntled customer/relative of customer” but those are not mutually exclusive things, there are plenty of professionals who have good reason to hate UHC

          • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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            13 days ago

            Oh yeah I mean it might have been a totally pro bono case but dude certainly knows what he is doing

  • Bureaucrat
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    14 days 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

    • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]
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      14 days 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.

      • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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        14 days 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
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          14 days 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
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            14 days 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
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              14 days 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

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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            13 days ago

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

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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          13 days 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 [she/her]
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        14 days 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
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          13 days 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.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      14 days 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.

        • Bureaucrat
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          14 days ago

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

      • CrawlMarks [he/him]
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        14 days 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.

    • beef_curds [she/her]
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      14 days 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.

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      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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        14 days 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

      • Bureaucrat
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        14 days 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

        • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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          14 days 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 [he/him]
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            14 days ago

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

        • Bureaucrat
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          14 days ago

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

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        14 days ago

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

    • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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      14 days 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
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        14 days 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.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        14 days ago

        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.

    • MouthyHooker [she/her]
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      14 days 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
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      14 days ago

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

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      14 days ago

      And yet somehow, every single CCTV camera in the Brooklyn subway was broken during a mass shooting a couple years ago, in which the NYPD certainly fucked up

    • InternetLefty [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      Seriously - cameras on cameras all over Manhattan. And we are only seeing what they want us to know about!

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    14 days ago

    Fashy groypers who shoot kids in the back in a daycare, NO CHIN

    Big dick assassins that kill healthcare insurance ceos, STRONG ALPHA CHIN

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    5 days ago

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  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    It was fun while it lasted. Hoping that this the incompetent NYPD targeting a random guy with a hoody though inshallah

      • Hohsia [he/him]
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        14 days ago

        I learned while reading some of these comments that the NYPD isn’t as incompetent as I’d like to think deeper-sadness

        Turns out when you have the budget the same as the GDP of a small country, it’s kinda hard to be

        • Owl [he/him]
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          14 days ago

          It's actually very easy to be incompetent with a large budget, and I will happily provide that service to anyone who needs it.

      • Lurker123 [he/him]
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        14 days ago

        “Oh, god” said the narrator. “Why can I hear myself? Do I only exist so long as there’s something to read? Please don’t stop writing.”

  • PurrLure [she/her]
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    14 days ago

    They want tips? Well the only tip I want is susie-blush [REDACTED] toriel-blush

    Apparently this isn't even the same guy though. The clothes don't quite match.

    I mean you plan out an elaborate moidah with custom engraved bullets and then right before you shoot your shot you go to a Starbucks, take your mask off, and socialize right in front of their camera before placing your DNA everywhere? Doesn't make sense. I think they put out false info on purpose to lure the real guy into a false sense of security. The NYPD is basically an army of their own and there are a lot of wealthy and powerful people that want to see this guy caught, surely they aren't this fucking stupid? Feel free to let me know how well this take ages, lmao.

  • Verenata
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    14 days ago

    Shut up that is not him is it?! Lmao he's hot!

    Real folk hero hours about to begin if that's actually him. Society be doing that.

      • Verenata
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        14 days ago

        Nooo straahhhppp literally me rn 😭

        • MouthyHooker [she/her]
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          14 days ago

          All of us right now.

          I actually don’t think the guy in the photo is the shooter though.

          • Verenata
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            14 days ago

            Noooooooo that's shit BUT that means the guy in the photo won't be going to jail for life 👀 silver linings girls 💅 and any other boy fanciers for that matter.

    • Moss [they/them]
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      14 days ago

      This is seemingly a completely unrelated, devastatingly handsome man

      • Verenata
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        14 days ago

        Just handsome npc 128

    • ManFreakBeast [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      Lmao he's hot!

      If he gets caught, we'll have the first killer in prison who actually DESERVES to get tons of horny mail from fans.

      • Verenata
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        14 days ago

        Lmao I was thinking that, people get so horny for shit heels in prison if they are hot so this guys gunna be a celebrity.

        • ManFreakBeast [he/him]
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          14 days ago

          This dude is gonna get so many nude Polaroids from lefty only fans girls.

              • Verenata
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                14 days ago

                I wonder if I should run a special discount for a lifetime membership and the price just says "proof of praxis" lmao.

                (This is a joke i will not be doing that Mr. Fed. Just to be clear.)

          • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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            14 days ago

            Pretty sure they censor that stuff in prison. Like they'd just get photos with black marker over the usual places or nothing at all. All part of the Christian morals of the USian prison-industrial complex. Can't have those horrible depraved sinners being incensed by nudity when they should be reading the bible and being exploited as slave labor. But maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

      • Verenata
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        14 days ago

        OK magazine top 100 hottest guys of 2024

  • Jew [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    Timothee Chalamet really is everywhere these days

  • ManFreakBeast [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    Every white dude with a hoodie in NYC is a suspect now I guess. If I lived in NYC I'd be a suspect.

  • roux [he/him, they/them]
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    14 days ago

    NYPD aren't sending their best.

    "This is the guy, see he had a hood on." is basically what they are going off of. Like this is the best they got?

    Literally not the same guy:

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