• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    20 minutes ago

    Luigi Mangione? I haven’t heard that name since he saved my life, here in North Carolina, same day as that United Healthcare guy keeled over from a heart attack

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    14 hours ago

    Woah woah woah, slow it down, we don’t know if it was murder yet. For all we know it was self defence.

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      Even if he did do it, it looked like a clear cut case of self defense. Brian was coming right for his throat.

      But also, there wasn’t a shooter. If you watch the video, Brian trips and falls on his own gun, shooting himself in the back 3 times

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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      I’m not sure what your point is. That’s why there’s a trial. A murder trial. To decide if he’s guilty. Nothing in the story claims otherwise. In fact, they go out of their way to point out that he has only been accused, not convicted.

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        12 hours ago

        Exactly. The media—and people as a whole—need to stop automatically assuming he’s the killer. Even those who support him are still acting like he’s the one who did it. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

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          He’s the wrong guy entirely. His build doesn’t look like those earlier NYPD photos showing the dude actually shooting the other dude. Not-Guilty. I think the NYPD picked up the wrong guy on purpose as an, “oops, I guess it’s a cold case now.”

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      4 hours ago

      Also the law doesn’t matter anymore anyway, so nobody should vote to convict because they’re concerned about the rule of law.

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    15 hours ago

    In response to hearing about your 10,000+ individual donations, averaging under $30

    So if that doesn’t send a message, maybe another CEO to spell it out?

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    18 hours ago

    I’m surprised they kept this guy alive. Maybe they figured out how obvious epstein looked and didn’t risk it with this guy

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      3 hours ago

      Better to keep him alive as an example to poors who have any ideas about attacking their ruling class masters.

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      Epstein had blackmail, and as such was still a danger to the rich, even in jail. On the other hand, Luigi was just some guy with a gun who got lucky, if they can lock him up for the rest of his life, he doesn’t pose any danger.

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      I fear that we’re witnessing a concerted conditioning aimed at ensuring the suspension of habeus corpus. At this point, it seems to be a bipartisan theatrical effort. I reallllllly hope I’m just being paranoid because if I’m right, we have no concept of the hell that awaits us (I’m writing this from a quantum decryption proof VPN)

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      19 hours ago

      300k+ to work one of the most famous cases in the nation? You bet your ass lawyers are looking at that. No matter the outcome you’re a legend. You can’t buy that kind of PR/marketing.

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          Enough money that it’s a legitimate job on its own really helps. 300k is a reasonable number for that.

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            Keep in mind that is not the take home pay of an attorney but will need to be used for various expenses which pile up with court cases including hiring people to do various aspects of the work on something this big. Its very possible that Karen Friedman Agnifilo may end up doing it pro bono which if the possible pay is low enough may even be preferable to do financially for her.

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      I don’t think 300 million would even be enough. They want to make an example of him.

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          How do you figure? The US has handled a lot of notorious cases, and most of them get quietly forgotten in prison.