• flamingleg@lemmy.ml
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      this is funny and everything but there was no reason for him to be in the mcdonalds, wearing the same outfit, carrying a buffet of incriminating evidence. It doesn’t make any sense at all. He’s probably innocent, like for real innocent. Or at worst a fall-guy for thompson’s wife, who gained the most feom his death and now doesn’t have to go through messy divorce proceedings to get her hands on a good chunk of his wealth. That should have been the starting point for the investigation, but the whole thing became a circus.

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        what i don’t understand is why anyone not-evil would spend time trying to find the murder at all, why wouldn’t you just assume anyone accused is not guilty?

        Someone removed an objectively and obviously evil person, they righted a wrong, by all accounts us normal people should be giving them a toast rather than supporting attempts to bring them to “”““justice””“”"

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        “I have this awesome ghost gun that’s basically impossible to trace back to me, so of course I think I’ll hold onto this instead of ditching it, but I’ll take the time to ditch this here backpack in central park.”

        You’d have a hard time convincing me that the cops didn’t find the gun in that bag and wait to plant it on the first believable suspect to pop up. They had zero leads before that phone call came in, and they’re stiffing the rat that called out of that reward money they promised. They just needed to be able to say that nobody gets away with eating the rich.

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        The FBI was under a lot of pressure to find a suspect. They could have planned that bag on him after they arrived.

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        cops would never falsify evidence, surely? certainly not the FBI, they’re all upstanding citizens