He also had a three-page handwritten manifesto that included grievances with the US healthcare system, a document that spoke to the suspect’s “motivation and mindset”, officials said.

Publish it then.

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Deny that you know or even saw them. Defend them if they do get caught, through protest, fundraising, bail, etc. Depose those who put them in jail if they are sentenced.

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He was carrying it around for absolutely no reason and for long enough to get caught with it? Bullshit, it’s manufactured evidence.

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First thought that came to mind as well, it sounds very implausible for him to be carrying a manifesto.

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Unless he planned on not surviving

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Ikr

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This thing about a guy at Macdonald’s recognizing his eyes also sounds bit strange tbh

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Well, a YouTube account with the shooters name posted a video today titled “truth” which was basically saying that there were videos scheduled to be made public in the near future (presumably on the same account), which would speak to his motivations and mind set or something of the sort.

Instead of telling you about it, I would prefer to just link the video, but according to YouTube, the account associated with the YouTube channel has been removed, so you can believe me or not on this. the video was only up for about 4 hours and when I saw it, maybe 30 minutes before it was removed from YouTube, it had 10’s of thousands of views. I know those counters aren’t exactly real time, so it’s not unreasonable to think that upwards of 100k people saw it, maybe more, and unless one of them saved it, it’s likely that nobody else will see it.

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Well well well,

Once, not if, but once it leaks, who ordered this, and who executed said order of this information being suppressed, you’ll have more heads in line for the guillotine.

¡Congrats!

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Pretty sure that YT account was faked, or mis-related to Mangione

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Or he consider himself a crusader for a cause more than a vigilante and was carrying it to get more attention to his beliefs.

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And yet instead of waiting around to get lots of attention and people *quoting things he said before cops arrived he quietly got on a bus. Doesn’t track.

*fucking worthless autocorrect

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My tin foil hat theory is that he was planning out another shooting and got interrupted.

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They need dozens of psy PhD types to review it to asses risks and prep narratives to discredit him.

Get fucked, dude is a hero.

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Give them time to write it up! They police are having problems with the shared Google Doc permissions.

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and the reading, don’t forget the reading

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Historically speaking, pigs can’t read.

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Wow thanks for posting

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We wouldn’t want to arouse ill-will toward health insurers /s

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Hey you got your account back!!

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Are you referring to the 2FA problem I had? I brute-forced it with a simple Bash script utilizing Lemmy API. Our instance doesn’t seem to have rate-limiting.

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that is configurable by your admin. while it was useful for you, you should probably raise that problem to your admin.

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Yea, Oh Cool.

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Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

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Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Or, and hear me out here, we can view this with a little sympathy: there’s $60k in rewards for anyone who turned this guy in, and the person who did it makes peanuts at McDonalds.

Now, I don’t know if I would do it, but I can completely and utterly sympathize why someone who makes poverty wages would turn class traitor for what almost certainly life-changing money.

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Well then this person is a moron. They won’t see a dime. Maybe a pat on the head and a gift card from the dollar store.

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Employee of the Month

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They’ll let him order anything he wants off the dollar menu!

Which is really just a pack of fries, minus the fries at this point, becaues what store has a dollar menu anymore?

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No way the average person working at Mcdonalds does anything but blow 60k even if they get it.

Edit: To be clear, I spent 4 years working at one. Good people, bad people, but not much economic sophistication in either group.

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I don’t. Might as well just be a cop if you think like that, plenty of room for bootlicking morons in that profession.

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Here here. I’m poor as shit, got no insurance whatsoever, 60k would be somewhat life changing for me. I would never ever squeal on a comrade like that, even for millions.

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Find out finds everyone

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Way ahead of you.

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that person might get 60k…

maybe because of this circle jerk, regime will pay out to prove a point.

but there is a lesson in this discussion folks.

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Neat how that works. Keep the populace poor and they become a wall to wall surveillance system for you. And people worry about technology…

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Off-topic question: are rewards money taxable?

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There’s no reason for them not to be treated like any other income.

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If I remember correctly, they can be anonymous. If that’s the case, they wouldn’t really be easily taxable. Still, we are talking about the government here, and if they tax lottery winnings, I would bet they tax rewards.

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The downvotes on this really make me question my faith in humanity.

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Only the downvotes?

What about the cheering on of murder in the street?

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shooter and ceo were closer in class than the shooter and working class

Ah, good ol’ “anyone who makes enough money to pay rent is part of the capitalist class, not the working class”

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Some people think anyone whose parents actually owned a house are “the elites”.

No. The CEO earned more in a year than even someone with a six figure salary would earn in a lifetime.

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I dunno. I’ve never met the narc, and I already don’t feel like he’s on my side.

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Simply a lack of class consciousness. America has worked hard since the rise of the USSR to topple workers power through union busting and destruction of community.

Basically we are built by our material conditions.

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One doesn’t have to go far to find a boot-licking class traitor who thinks if they run the rat race well enough they’ll get a piece of cheese.

But to be fair to the McDonalds worker, the cash reward is designed to do just that.

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$50k is 1-2 years pay for the person who reported him. For them, that short term relief was worth more than the highly improbable outcome where this man’s actions actually impact their life in a positive way in the next few months. Money wins almost every time

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I’m glad the rat will most likely get denied their pellet.

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Idiot yes but we can’t be too harsh on the pedon… so much education needs to be done, and these recent events is a good time for outreach and education.

Unity is the message. Luigi did the hard work, least the plebs can do it show some solidarity.

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Class solidarity is for those who can afford it

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Tell that to the social Democrats that build labor rights brick by brick a century ago. A lot of times they litterally starved on strike.

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in practice it do seem like that…

But the Adjuster was from well off family, and not all of us dirt poor… i don’t blame the snitch here.

I do expect most people to be able to do their part tho… if wage slaves can’t rally around this, we gonna have another generation of the fuckening.

make no mistake, the owner class will punish us hard for this.

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We can’t tell you who squealed, but it was one of the dozen employees at this McDonald’s. Probably the one that’s going to change jobs soon…

I’d be pissed and scared if I was an employee at that McDonald’s

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He had everything on him to get caught and convicted. I don’t think he wanted to run forever.

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America’s working class has a long history of buying into propaganda and acting against their own interests. It’s a huge reason why the medical industry has gotten so bad.

That being said, it’s important to keep our anger focused on the system, not people who are getting suckered by it.

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It pains me to see so many people ready and willing to beat up their Trump voting neighbor who fell for propaganda designed for them but not the Trump financing ceos

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Jokes on you if you think this is going to change anything

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Oh look, nothing relevant changed. Looks like my comment still stands.

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Because they rely on “tips” , as the corporation is unable to pay a wage that is sufficient to support a basic standard of living. If only capitalist weren’t so greedy they wouldn’t be relying on the tips to survive.

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I worked at McDonalds for a few years when I was younger. They didn’t let us get tips.

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Also worked there. There is no McDonald’s that has ever allowed tips. It’s against their corporate rules. I even saw an employee get written up for accepting a tip, once.

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Some of us aren’t brainwashed into bloodlust by marxist bullshit, even though we’re poor.

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Some of us would like it if we and people like us were not poor for the rest of time.

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Somebody better nullify that jury.

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It only takes of working man to get on it to make it flop

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And here’s your 12 jury members…

Oh, it’s Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerburg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch,

…I could keep this joke going if I used google, but is it sad that I could name 6 people by memory just by using the parameters “Rich asshole who would have no empathy for the general public, and would absolutely convict”?

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it would have to be 12 CEOs but they deff aint got to be proper owner oligarch… just scrape some middling f500 roaster with some “nonames”

but yes valid point… but defense can generally strike some of these.

this guy going to need proper counsel, I am assuming fun raising won’t be an issue. he deserves the best.

coupled with proper PR campaign on socials since TV will try to destroy him.

this jury must not convict because the glove don’t fit hehe

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I could name 6 people by memory just by using the parameters "Rich asshole who would have no empathy for the general pub

You should find more about gates than the name

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

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I’m fairly certain they’ll just find a new jury

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Sure sounds like justice.

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we gonna keep trying until we win…

tbh that is the ruling class MO tho

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I mean… it does seem pretty fair? If the jury is hung it’s up to the state to retry. If the jury comes back not guilty then that’s the end of it.

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Fortunately in criminal trials if the Jury can return a not guilty verdict, that’s game over for the states case. Double jeopardy they can’t retry.

Now if one guy on the Jury opposes a guilty verdict, and no verdict is reached, then the state can retry.

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They could also go after him with Thompson’s family in civil suit to destroy him financially, which it turns out is not double jeopardy

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Lol … I thought you were asking to nudify the jury

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Why do I keep reading his name as “Luigi’s Mansion”

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Lucky the police got him before he got nintendo’ed.

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We should spend the next year blanketing NY with information about jury nullification.

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100% agreed. Might I recomend making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH_Y1TupoQ go as viral as possible.

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I like that, but there is a major problem with it, and it’s around 2:49 in the video:

Do you have any beliefs that might prevent you from making a decision based strictly on the law?

Grey suggests that saying “No” with intent to nullify is lying, and therefore perjury. He is wrong. Where legislated law and constitutional law come into conflict (and they do in all cases of nullification), it is your duty to strictly follow constitutional law. You must judge the case as a layperson. You are constitutionally obligated to follow your own sense of rationality. That means if legislated law provides an undesirable outcome, you are obligated to “strictly follow [constitutional] law”, and refuse to convict under a lower law.

I can honestly claim to have no beliefs that would prevent me from making a decision based strictly on the law. The 6th Amendment is part of the law, and the 6th amendment requires and empowers me (as a juror) to make whatever decision I determine is appropriate.

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My reply would be: “if the law is just, I will make a decision that serves justice”.

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Earlier in the video he stated that the jurors cannot be punished for their decision, this applies if the outcome results in perjury.

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This better not be a rickroll…

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Careful, in case you haven’t heard, discussing jury nullification is apparently against the rules of lemmy.world. SMH (at lemmy.world admins).

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The pinned post on lemmy.world right now clarifies that discussing jury nullification for crimes that have already happened, such as this, is perfectly acceptable. It’s only discussing it with respect to crimes which have not yet been committed which is against the TOS.

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Wait, we got a Future Crimes Division? I didn’t know .world was run by a bunch of milky precogs…

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If you trust them after having enforced an unwritten policy and still not allowing discussion of something that’s perfectly legal.

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I’m not sure that’s true. I’ve had plenty of comments stay up. My guess is either the mod team got their shit together or those comments were deleted for other reasons.

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It seems that it was never written in their terms before and had been inconsistently applied, but just in case you hadn’t seen these:

https://lemm.ee/post/49117816

https://lemm.ee/post/49305452

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They are certainly empowered to do that, just as I am empowered to block any instance I don’t want to participate in. If they are not tolerant and respectful of my beliefs (even if they don’t share them) then I don’t want to contribute to their community either.

Layperson juries are a fundamental component of criminal justice. The law exists to serve the people, not the lawyers, not the government. Rejecting jurors for understanding the purpose of having a layperson jury fundamentally violates the rights of the accused in particular, and society in general.

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