It would be incredible if they fumbled the prosecution because the cops were overeager dipshits.

#Shut the fuck up and only communicate through your lawyer.

Prosecution also referenced a “faraday bag” as part of their argument that Mangione engaged in “criminal sophistication”,

til I'm a criminal mastermind for using a ridgewallet

1. I lean towards believing him. Cops planting evidence, something they’re known to do, seems way more likely to me than him being the dumbest criminal alive after seeming to be the smartest criminal alive, and the cops managed to find him.

I think they found the pictures of Luigi in the hostel, decided “That’s our guy” despite no link between hostel guy and the shooter, tracked him down because they had his face and evidence of where he was going, and planted the evidence when they found him. That “manifesto” was written by one of the cops on their drive to Altoona.

The pictures of man in the hostel are very clearly a different fucking guy than the guy in the taxi who is also clearly a different guy from the shooter. They’re wearing different clothes and don’t even look that much alike.

2. If Luigi was the shooter, I’m glad to see they’re going with the “I don’t know shit, they planted that, I’m not the guy” defense anyway, I think that’s his best shot. The only piece of evidence that actually connects him to the shooting is the shitty security footage of him shooting the guy. “That’s not me, that could be fucking anyone” is a great defense even if it was you.

It’d be hard enough to find a jury willing to convict him if he looked into the camera and said “My name is Luigi Mangione and I am about to murder Brian Thompson for what he did to my mother,” it’ll be even harder to find a jury willing to convict him for a video of a video game character creation screen’s default white man shooting someone.

Still not convinced Luigi is even the guy from the hostel picture. Luigi has a prominent monobrow in his mugshot photo, the hostel dude doesn't. I get my eyebrows waxed due to being cursed with a monobrow and they do not grow back that quickly. The cops did not find the killer, they found a scapegoat to keep the ruling class happy. Him conveniently being caught with the murder weapon and same fake ID a week later in a random McDonald's just screams of planted evidence.

WHERE THE FUCK HIS LAWYER?!!!

Holy fuck, he might not end up JUST with a hung jury, but a full-on acquittal!

apologies for the TikTok

No need to apologize for using free speech.

The ones who should apologize are trying to ban it.

Kind of wild to me we have a statement of him claiming the money was planted but nothing about the gun or the handwritten manifesto that was basically a confession. Like....was he asked about that????

cops plant evidence i have seen it done just to tack on more charges even when they have all the evidence they need.

"I'm not sure if it was planted" would be a normal thing to say if you knew you were a fall guy and some other shit definitely was planted