CNN webpage with a photo and text saying “We have a photo showing the suspect’s unmasked face. How has no one recognized him and come forward to police?”

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    Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist:

    But my guess is that this person is just a random person who happened to have similar outfit, near the wrong place, around the wrong time. They saw this and immediately put the blame on the person.

    I mean, the guy on the shooting video was smart enough to have a suppressor, but he just decided to pull down his mask when he know he’s on camera? Doubt.

    Robert Lee Stinson was falsely convicted using “teeth mark” psudoscience BS, and that was a low-profile case. This is a “high-profile” case to them. Who knows what ends they’ll go to find someone to blame it on.

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      Thing is, everyone has seen this photo by now. The person in the photo has seen the photo. People who know him have seen the photo. If it were a photo of me, I’d be like, “Oh shit, I better call a lawyer because these cops think I killed someone” and call to clear up the mistake. I’d let everyone know that’s a pic of me, but I am not the murderer.

      Nobody has done that yet.

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        You’re brave if you think that would be enough for them to leave you alone. I’ve know a few people who’ve been stalked and harassed for years by cops who had nothing on them.

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          Sure, but that’s why my first call is a lawyer. Establish an iron-clad alibi, and point out that I don’t have United Health Insurance or any medical debt, bring in my doctor who says my arthritis would prevent me from riding a bike that far, package all that up into a single irrefutable tweet and then go have a primetime interview with a cable news reporter. You can’t trust the cops, but if you make it known that you are in the photo and you didn’t do it, they will hopefully leave you alone.

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            Never talk to the police even to give evidence that proves your innocence, never ever ever talk to them get a lawyer the justice system is slow and on your side the police can NEVER HELP YOU

            Edit: the police are part of executive branch they enforce the law, there’s a difference between all the branches. Police have to prove their case to the judicial, but as they clarified in our basic Miranda rights from that cops tv show back in the day ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU

            Don’t say anything lol why would you?

            To be clear this is more difficult to realize in the moment you are being questioned. Just sing an old Martin Luther king song to yourself if you know you are innocent.

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        Seriously? If someday my face appeared on a wanted poster for a crime i did not commit and did not have clear alibi, i’ll lay low.

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          Someone with my motives might have killed a CEO the other day and so I’m trynna lay low too just in case

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        Can’t you do all that after they catch you? Cause there is a chance they won’t and you doing that might increase your chances of getting caught and being wrongly convicted.

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        You’re right, the dude in the photo is probably AI generated, so the poliece looks like they have a suspect already and nobody is going to embarrass them.

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      smart enough to have a suppressor…

      That is all of a form 4 stamp and a $200 check my man. These days it’s a few weeks dwell time.

      I have 12 of them. Most of the guys I shoot with have several. None of them are even close to being on this side of the bell curve for intellect.

      Dude had a plan that was well thought out, but the can on his pistol wasn’t an indicator of it.

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      I loved that CNN published a picture of the wrong guy, smiling, handsome, flirting with the receptionist.

      So now, it makes it easier for the murderer to escape because people are looking for a face that is not his and in the collective unconscious he went from a dark alley murderer to a handsome, smiling guy casually flirting that makes him even more likeable.

      I know it’s way too far fetched but as a plan it would be a genius master plan.