Maybe I’m just face-blind or being dense but the photos from the scene of the crime look like a different dude than the ginning hostel check in guy. The jackets and backpacks are different. Although people can have multiple jackets and backpacks. We don’t see much of the shooters face but the eyebrows look different. Although, people can pluck/shave eyebrows. I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

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I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

I sure as fuck wouldn’t. I know enough not to come anywhere near the police if they’re scrutinizing me for any reason, even if I know 100% I’m innocent and I can prove it. You absolutely cannot trust them not to just arrest you and railroad you into a bullshit conviction anyway, or plant some evidence, or decide “he had a knife” and just outright kill you. You know how they say “anything you say can be used against you?” That’s because they absolutely won’t use it to help you, even if you’re not guilty of anything.

I am positive city hall is breathing down the NYPD’s neck real hard right now. The entire department has got a lot of egg on its face for not being able to stop this guy, not being able to positively identify this guy, hell, not even know with any certainty where he went afterwards. They are under immense pressure to hang somebody – anybody – over this because they’re looking even more like chumps than usual.

So no, a wise man would not expose himself to the cops in any way whatsoever.

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The cops need to present a suspect so they can say they did their job. Whether it’s the right suspect is another matter.

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Yep, if something like this can happen, it might not be the best idea to go to the police:

Man pressured to confess he killed his dad. His dad was alive and well [3:40]

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Fuck I had to stop watching after the bit with his dog. That’s heartbreaking

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They only care that the forms are filed. They don’t care if they are filed with correct information.

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We did it, reddit NYPD!

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And if the cops do ask and want to pursue questioning you … you don’t talk to the cops in this situation and just ask for a lawyer … they ask what your name is - lawyer … what is your date of birth - lawyer … where are you from? lawyer … lawyer, lawyer, lawyer

Never talk to the cops, especially when the cops are desperately looking for a suspect.

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Don’t ask. Tell them to get you your lawyer.

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What if you don’t have a lawyer? I know the state can set one up for you, but I also know those lawyers are overworked. They take on something like 12,000 cases per year, and get on average 4 minutes to prepare your case.

Could I just call my mom and be like “FIND A LAWYER RIGHT NOW PLEASE!”?

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Is it “shut the fuck up” Friday?

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

https://youtu.be/uqo5RYOp4nQ

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It is ALWAYS “shut the fuck up” Friday.

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Was about to send that first link. Glad someone beat me to it.

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Fair point. I suspect that the NYPD doesn’t really want to bring him in alive.

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A dead suspect checks the boxes. Can’t dispute facts with evidence. Allows the media to say they got him. Gives them an easy victory.

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The CEOs get a false sense of security and are lured out of hiding. Then the real killer guns down another one. Rinse and repeat.

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Never talk to the police, there are many reasons why

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Massad Ayoub is the man when it comes to firearms and law. I know of no one more expert.

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This is sound advice. There are too many bad actors among cops to trust them to be impartial or fair.

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Making a murderer is all you have to see to know this is the truth. I feel so bad for that family.

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Yes! A real eye opener for me!

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I bet they stop releasing info because of the public reaction. At this poiny, they want us to forget and not have copycats. They’re scared.

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Especially just murdering you. Lot harder to get a corpse to testify that they didn’t do it. Makes it a LOT easier to say “well, they did it, but they’re dead now, case closed.”

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Just imagine this is green text.

Nab the wrong guy

Shoot him in the back 53 times while screaming “stop resisting!”

Investigate ourselves, find no wrongdoing

“Case closed, boys!”

Police chief gets got by The Adjuster the next day…

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Storm troopers murder these kinds of people rather than expose the injustice system.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/909515885/protester-suspected-in-portland-shooting-death-killed-by-law-enforcement

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Wow. Dood. Your reality sounds stressful.

Its like an episode of Law and Order but in real life!

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