You guys think there’s an element of everyone wanting to be in the picture? As in it only takes one cop to walk him from A to B, but he’s famous and this is a huge important case so they all come with just because you want to be close to important things
“I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it.” - Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
Fun fact: dude to the left of Luigi walking behind him is NYC mayor Adams. His positioning is definitely intentional to be in the shot.
Vultures, someone (parasite or not) died in the street and their concern isn’t a lost life or even the motivations of the alleged killer but how can they get their photo op.