• Damage@feddit.it
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    14 hours ago

    My theory from the start is that they knew it was him, but found out via illegal means so they had to frame him some other way

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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      13 hours ago

      Definitely. They’re claiming that a McDonald’s worker called the cops on a nondescript (well, kinda attractive) white guy? A hundred Luigis eat there every day, and the “Bartender that remembers someone from three days ago” is an artifact of cop dramas.

      When I worked in fast food, I called the customers “wallets with feet”. Jeffrey Dahmer and Tim McVeigh could have come in together and I wouldn’t have noticed.

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      13 hours ago

      This is most likely the case. He may be able to beat that charge, but juries are notoriously stupid.

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      12 hours ago

      And risk getting the case thrown out over all the other ways they’re pushing their limits?

      I doubt it.

      Parallel Construction works if you can prove it by legal means. They wouldn’t have needed to risk getting the whole thing nullified if they didn’t bother with his Miranda Rights or getting caught planting evidence on him. Parallel Construction needs precision, and nothing NYPD is doing sounds precise in the slightest.