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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The cops responded to a call saying "Yeah I think he's here," believed it and arrived in force within the time a person spends at a MacDonald (was the suspect playing in the ball pit?) and arrested him, finding the incriminating gun and silencer he had no reason to keep, along with a "manifesto"" which is a rarity among sane people but shooters have to have one according to cops?

Sounds reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories, but there's a massive motivation for the US government to find anyone who looks about right and is disgruntled and then frame them, or plant evidence on someone they found through an illegal means. The US surveillance state uses parallel construction all the time to hide the actual (often illegal) ways they find someone.

Plus, if you don't have a suspect, the message to all the proles out there is that you can kill CEOs and get away with it. The internet just showed that the only reason the working class aren't doing The Purge on CEOs is fear of consequences. That's a critical threat to the ruling class, and they will 100% frame, pay to take the fall or blackmail someone into it rather than not convict somebody.

It doesn't line up at all that he brought a handwritten copy of his manifesto plus his fake IDs and his recently used murder weapon to a Macdonalds. Especially after being careful about escaping the city, and the amount of practice he had to smoothly clear the jams when he shot Thompson shows this was premeditated.

Unless he takes the jury stand and uses it to verbally blast the ruling class and try to incite more violence, this ain't the shooter IMO.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Theory I heard is that he wanted to be arrested, because he has a plan, maybe using court as a stage for making a public statement.

And that he may even tell the mcDonald worker to rat him out and collect the money.

Probably far from truth, but it would be cool if all that was true.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Only to have the reward money claim rejected because" without his tip they would have caught him anyway" or any other bullshit reason, just like insurance companies love to do. Oh the irony.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

If the internet ever finds that McDonald’s employee, I predict they will not be happy about it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

AFAIK it was a customer, not an employee. If it had been the latter, that location would quickly get a serious image problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The employee that called it in been all over the news today.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Already does I believe, new one star reviews saying it has a rat problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It has some 1 stars before all of this too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Well, that is one way to put it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

He recognized that guy from that picture they populated? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago

"Sell out your own, cattle!

Maybe we'll throw you a milkbone!"

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