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"Alleged" is funny
There's basically no evidence tying him to the scene or crime besides a gun and manifesto that cops "found" in his backpack after they began to illegally search it without a warrant, were stopped by another officer that warned them that a warrant was needed, turned off their body cam, repacked the contents of the backpack, moved the backpack to a police station, and then turned the body cam back on, just to immediately go right for the exact zippered pocket the gun was in.
Also it makes even less sense that someone would go through the trouble to learn to 3D print and assemble a ghost gun in their living room with no previous experience, and only travel in sunglasses, gloves, mask, and obscuring clothing, just to not do the literal only thing a ghost gun is for, which is ditch it at the scene. And carry around a manifesto admitting to the crime that they meticulously avoided being tied to.
It is wildly convenient for the cops to "find" it in his possession, because that is genuinely the only possible way that the weapon could have been useful in their case. If they had found the gun any other way, they would have no way to link it to him. What a miracle! They had no leads and he was not even on their suspect list, so they'd have had nothing. Also super convenient for the cops that a ghost gun can't be traced, so no way to prove that it wasn't planted on an innocent person.
I thought i recalled them finding a different backpack belonging to the shooter ditched in a park in NYC, which further begs the question of why he'd keep the gun if he'd already dumped other less incriminating evidence.
You're correct, he ditched a grey backpack, which the cops discovered in central park. The police claim that the grey backpack only contained clothing and literal monopoly money.
It would be mildly amusing to learn that he had two identical backpacks and ditched the wrong one. Of course that couldn't be the case because Luigi Mangione was busy caring for orphan children on the other side of the country with me that day.
Facts. Though I'll say, I suspect that he probably did do it, it's just that whatever evidence they have that tipped them off they cannot admit to having, so they rushed a frame job while it was theoretically plausible it would stick.
If there was any hope in hell of a conviction, it would have gone to trial ages ago. At this point, I figure they're just waiting for a particularly busy news week when they'll give him the 'ole Epstein special to deter copycats.
Yup. We are supposed to believe that the grey backpack, which he ditched in central park and was successfully found by police, only contained some clothes and literal monopoly money, but not the gun. Lol.
They found the gun in that backpack, but that was totally useless to them, so they pretended it was never there until they could plant it in a way that helps their case.
Innocent until proven guilty