Anybody who comes forward will have a target on their back.
Fucking class traitor
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Anybody who comes forward will have a target on their back.
Fucking class traitor
My money is on scapegoating some poor soul as a warning to the masses.
i didnt see nothing man...
straight white transexual male female of african american decent with dash of asian heading north east south.
Do these people really think Americans are about to turn on a folk hero and even if they are willing, would you want to be on that guy's shit list over some dead executive?
a folk hero
I can’t wait for songs to be written about him
ETA: I hope his name is Jayne. The man they called Jayne…
Careers could be made, the demand is there.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist:
But my guess is that this person is just a random person who happened to have similar outfit, near the wrong place, around the wrong time. They saw this and immediately put the blame on the person.
I mean, the guy on the shooting video was smart enough to have a suppressor, but he just decided to pull down his mask when he know he's on camera? Doubt.
Robert Lee Stinson was falsely convicted using "teeth mark" psudoscience BS, and that was a low-profile case. This is a "high-profile" case to them. Who knows what ends they'll go to find someone to blame it on.
A hoodie and a backpack could describe half the people at any tech company in America.
Oh shit, I wore a hoodie and backpack to college once.
And I also smiled at someone once. Pretty sure there was a CCTV camera near by.
Are they looking for me?
Oh shit is that a knock on my door?
Aaaaahhhhh noo it wasn't me I swear
😱
/jk
I keep an unworn blank hoodie, an unused backpack, and a pair of barely worn sneakers ready in case of… necessity
Because it's not even the same guy?
I'm starting to suspect the backpack they found was a rando just doing a solid for a hero to throw off the pigs.