Maybe I’m just face-blind or being dense but the photos from the scene of the crime look like a different dude than the ginning hostel check in guy. The jackets and backpacks are different. Although people can have multiple jackets and backpacks. We don’t see much of the shooters face but the eyebrows look different. Although, people can pluck/shave eyebrows. I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    I guess the happy hostel guy would have come forward and been like “WTF?” and “I have an alibi” if it wasn’t him?

    I sure as fuck wouldn’t. I know enough not to come anywhere near the police if they’re scrutinizing me for any reason, even if I know 100% I’m innocent and I can prove it. You absolutely cannot trust them not to just arrest you and railroad you into a bullshit conviction anyway, or plant some evidence, or decide “he had a knife” and just outright kill you. You know how they say “anything you say can be used against you?” That’s because they absolutely won’t use it to help you, even if you’re not guilty of anything.

    I am positive city hall is breathing down the NYPD’s neck real hard right now. The entire department has got a lot of egg on its face for not being able to stop this guy, not being able to positively identify this guy, hell, not even know with any certainty where he went afterwards. They are under immense pressure to hang somebody – anybody – over this because they’re looking even more like chumps than usual.

    So no, a wise man would not expose himself to the cops in any way whatsoever.

    • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      The cops need to present a suspect so they can say they did their job. Whether it’s the right suspect is another matter.

    • IninewCrow
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      And if the cops do ask and want to pursue questioning you … you don’t talk to the cops in this situation and just ask for a lawyer … they ask what your name is - lawyer … what is your date of birth - lawyer … where are you from? lawyer … lawyer, lawyer, lawyer

      Never talk to the cops, especially when the cops are desperately looking for a suspect.

        • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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          What if you don’t have a lawyer? I know the state can set one up for you, but I also know those lawyers are overworked. They take on something like 12,000 cases per year, and get on average 4 minutes to prepare your case.

          Could I just call my mom and be like “FIND A LAWYER RIGHT NOW PLEASE!”?

          • @unmagical@lemmy.ml
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            You can use your phone call for whomever, just know it’s not private and you best hope whomever you call will actually help you.

            The distinction I was making is that the response to “can you get me a lawyer?” could just be the cops walking out of the room and coming back several hours later and seeing if you’ve changed your mind. The same thing for “I’ll wait till my lawyer is here.”

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              Isn’t your “phone call” a Hollywood trope? It’s not like you get to gamble on the highest stakes call of your life (oops, line’s busy or you misdialed or whatever), but you only get one chance like it’s some legal gotcha the cops can pull on a suspect.

          • @Boinkage@lemmy.world
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            It’s the state’s responsibility/problem to bring you a lawyer if you can’t afford one before the police question you. If the cops are so sure you committed a crime then they’ll charge you and get a public defender assigned so they can interrogate you with a lawyer present. If they don’t have enough evidence they’ll try to bully you into talking without a lawyer present and trick you into confessing. This is one of 403 reasons why it’s important to ask for a lawyer then shut the fuck up until your lawyer arrives.

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        A dead suspect checks the boxes. Can’t dispute facts with evidence. Allows the media to say they got him. Gives them an easy victory.

        • troybot [he/him]
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          The CEOs get a false sense of security and are lured out of hiding. Then the real killer guns down another one. Rinse and repeat.

          • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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            C’mon man! You should have ended with “Another one bites the dust”.

            Then we could all have it playing in our head!

    • @piecat@lemmy.world
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      I bet they stop releasing info because of the public reaction. At this poiny, they want us to forget and not have copycats. They’re scared.

    • @Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      Especially just murdering you. Lot harder to get a corpse to testify that they didn’t do it. Makes it a LOT easier to say “well, they did it, but they’re dead now, case closed.”

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        Just imagine this is green text.

        Nab the wrong guy

        Shoot him in the back 53 times while screaming “stop resisting!”

        Investigate ourselves, find no wrongdoing

        “Case closed, boys!”

        Police chief gets got by The Adjuster the next day…

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    Definately 7’ 8" female. Asian descent. Bald. Possible Alopecia. Dwarfism.

  • @DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    Feel free to upload more pictures claiming to be him that aren’t, post them to Reddit, send them to the news claiming to be from an official source.

    Protect your folk heros America.

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      Yeah, these are obviously different. All kinds of visible differences. Pockets, color of bag, strap sizes, no string on hood, lapel looks different, one looks more like a hoodie with a jacket, the other looks like a jacket with a hood… Just doesn’t match very well at all.

    • That doesn’t mean it’s not the same person. It means they have more jackets and bags. If I was going to murder someone I too might bring extras so I can get changed afterwards.

      To be clear I hope they don’t catch this guy, but I’m just being real.

    • @Mango@lemmy.world
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      It’s the Everyday Bag by Peak Design. Probably v2. I want it so I can cosplay assassin-kun! Gotta figure out the right jacket.

  • MagnyusG
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    I was curious when I was hearing the police chatter saying the suspect was wearing a “cream-coloured” jacket, when in the assassination footage it’s pretty undeniably black or a dark colour at least.

      • @Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world
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        He probably spun around counterclockwise, but if you focus a lot it might have been the other direction

      • Ragdoll X
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        I heard that he’s an ethereal being from another dimension that has already faded away from our plane of existence so the police is wasting its time looking for him and should close the case.

    • @xtr0n@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      The fabric looks different too. Like the shooter’s jacket seems to have a texture like gore-tex and the hostel guy’s jacket seems more like a cotton-poly weave. It’s hard to know for sure with the low quality images, but the colors look really different (and neither is anything close to cream)

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        The pockets are alone to give away that Hostel guy is wearing a “field jacket” cotton blend while Agent 47 is wearing a ECWCS cold/wet weather top. He could have two jackets and all that but they’re different jackets.

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    The clothing color could be due to lighting. Remember the blue black dress meme? Multiple backpacks is too easy. So that’s a non-issue.

    That being said. Why isn’t anyone considering that maybe the cops couldn’t give a shit either. But they have to try because the money people said so.

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      I don’t think lighting makes a light grey backpack into black. That’s a bit of a stretch. Especially considering the jacket on the left have no chest pockets. The one on the right has massive pocket flaps like they are the main character.

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        thank you! where did he stash the other jacket, and if he did why would he pick one of same colour and type?

        • @TBi@lemmy.world
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          4D chess! Obviously that’s his plan to throw off the police, have another almost identical but distinguishable backpack and jacket! /s

      • GladiusB
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        It’s more than incompetent. It’s that they can’t get caught. That there is a way to execute and not be held accountable. If that knowledge hits the masses it’s a public relations nightmare.

    • @Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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      That’s what I think as well. The assassin hopped on a bike and pedaled off to Central Park.

      Personally I think he had a different clothes going into the city. Changed in CP, Stole a bike, then biked to the hotel did the deed. Biked back to CP ditched the clothes and bike and left the city.

  • @MooseTheDog@lemmy.world
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    CNN and others just put the photos out without verification. No official photos have been released. CNN even said as much in their article

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    These are not the same person. They fit the description, and where near the scene. Police would want to talk to both regardless.

  • ZeroOne
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    Reminder even facial-recognition softwares & Geo-Location data HAVE made errors that put innocent people in jail

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    The assassin looks like he is wearing a black windbreaker style jacket and the other guy looks like he is wearing a cream colored dickies jean jacket with the grey hood like you get from walmart

  • @Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    Wow. Dark haired male in dark hooded jacket and back pack. Rare. I see slightly less than 30 such most days.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    The first back pack is white. The second one is very dark white almost black. The first jacket has white buttons, the second jacket has dark white buttons almost black. The first jacket has buttons, the second one looks like a special kind of button where the buttons on one side intermesh with the buttons on the otherwise in a zigzag pattern… I bet those have a name like zigzaper or zigper, who knows.

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      The first one is a dark brown or green zip up with a built in hood, the second one is a green button up over a hoodie.

      They’re barely similar. The NYPD has too much of nothing.

      It’s like these:

      • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        Could be green. I’ll ask Pete when he comes out of hiding from under the bed. I assume Prez Trump will be pardoning Pete. When he does pardon Pete, he’s going to everyone’s darling. I can’t talk for all Americans, but definitely, all #1’s will love Trump personally. With enough love, anything is possible. I mean lube. 1 in, 1 out, 1 in again, that little hook at the top of the 1 really does beg for lube…anyway what was the question? I hope I answered correctly.