I’m certain that if the victim had been a poor American or dark skinned, we would be seeing 30 NYPD fanning out in the park to look for potential evidence.
This country is run by fucking disgusting people.
I think your fundamental mistake is thinking it’s “run” at the level that impacts this. Do you think Biden is ordering the NYPD? Congress? The justice department? Strong doubt that they need to tell the NYPD to behave this way, this is simply how the NYPD behaves. They are an organization of bad people who do bad things daily, this just being a normal outcome of their badness.
It’s a systemic issue. This is capitalism, which exists to protect privilege of rich people. The police are just their enforcers. They serve and protect the rich, and of course their system. It is modern day feudalism. Police are the modern day bailiffs that will hit you over the head with a stick if you try to question the system. It’s not that the NYPD is not a bunch of fucked up bastards, but they are part of something much bigger, and much worse. That’s why ACAP, as it is usually meant, is insufficient. It really should be:
All Capitalists (and their minions) Are Bastards.
But they are a bunch of fucked up bastards too, and ones who deliberately choose to be supportive of the system. It’s not dissimilar from people who decide to go work for price Waterhouse coopers or JP Morgan chase. They want to be part of the systemic evil, and therefore are far far more evil than average. To translate to the west coast, startup founders and “raw water” purveyors.
You cant entirely blame “the system” when there are individual choices that go into saying “actually I like this system and have no empathy for anyone else, sign me up”.
Pretty sure that the President can’t give orders to state or city police.
Let me look this up. The New York City Police Commissioner is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the mayor. The mayor probably knows where his campaign financing comes from. The NY attorney general is also elected.
The killer entered New York City by bus on Nov. 24, when a surveillance camera at Port Authority Bus Terminal caught his arrival at 9 p.m., law enforcement sources told ABC News.
If they knew that for sure, they would know who it was. This sounds more like “Of course our surveillance state is working; Don’t you plebes get any ideas.”
From that I’d say they have pretty good matches on him. The bad news for him is that these days with surveillance, you need to be really sneaky before you commit a crime as well as after. It’s hard to cover all your tracks on the way in and on the way out.
It looks like they’re getting better pictures of his face, that’s real bad for him. Personally, I’m not confident he’s getting away with this. It would probably be wise to leave the country asap.
If he is caught and brought before a jury of his peers, then anything might happen. Not sure they will find a jury where all of the jurors will vote to convict him even if the evidence is crystal clear. Cops knowing this as well, I wonder if the guy will not have an “accident” before they catch him.
He was supposedly using a fake ID, so they trace the fake ID back to the bus tickets…
Doesn’t mean they would know who he was.
I mean, Greyhound lists it as something that they use to let you on the bus without a ticket.
https://www.greyhound.com/help-and-info/tips-and-faqs
It’s the second and third entry under the “Your Tickets” section.
Even IF they didn’t ask for it and it wasn’t needed, he could used the same name to get a bus ticket that his fake ID showed.
Realistically not having a physical ticket is one less thing to worry about losing that could have fingerprints on it.
I bet he originally planned to leave the monopoly money with the body but when in the situation of getting the fuck out of there realized it was a very bad idea
You’re probably right, but maybe it’s a hint at his next moves? The guy already has a flair for the dramatic.
Monopoly the game is about how shitty the landlord system is and how it ruthlessly crushes people.