• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    wouldn’t have gone so far out of state so quickly

    Nah, that part I get, they knew shooter came in on a bus, so they grab someone on a bus.

    The gun, silencer, and manifesto could have been from the central park bag.

    It’d just be crazy they wrapped the one guy on a Greyhound bus with generational wealth.

    His best defense is pushing that angle, the “but how did you find me?”

    Like, this part has barely been mentioned:

    Authorities said a customer in the restaurant thought he matched the description of the suspect in Thompson’s killing and notified an employee, who called 911.

    https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-worker-luigi-mangione-private-security-1999217

    To me it’s more likely that customer was a fed or law enforcement, they already knew he was there, they just needed a legal way to act on that. There’s been a big push to put all the blame on the fast food worker, but I have a feeling stuff like that would have kept happening and may not even have been the first person told.

    It’s no “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”, but you could build a legal defense on this that results in all charges thrown out.

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        They don’t need facial recognition, there’s gait recognition that’s just as good.

        However I don’t think that’s what it was because Luigi’s back issues would have introduced variations in gait that make it much harder.

        It’s 2024 bro…

        That’s all stuff we knew about 20 years ago, I think what they used is something we can’t even guess at. Once we find out it’ll sound like common sense like gait recognition and savvier criminals will account for it by doing things like wearing different sized shoes or even putting tacks in their shoes.

        But until people know what’s being used, they can’t beat it reliably, which is why they do these parallel investigations to hide how they really do it (only applicable when one of the elites are victims).

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          I suspect the Ministry of Silly Walks will start receiving a lot of new grant requests soon if you’re correct about gait recognition being used in this case.

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            He’s not saying they used gait recognition, he’s saying they probably used something high-tech that no one has heard of. The public has know about gait analysis, voice analysis, handwriting analysis, etc for a long time.

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              The public doesn’t know about gait analysis.

              I don’t think this is any real secret squirrel shit, I think it they’re just trying to conceal the identity of the person who made the tip.

              Which is understandable, I’m sure if they were identified they’d get death threats.

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                You don’t know about gait analysis. A quick search would show you its not “squirrel shit.” Lots of research papers are available from the past 10+ years about using it for surveillance, and there’s even a wiki page.

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          There’s another case I have a strong suspicion about. Some “random guy at the bar” tipped off the FBI about a guy they’ve been watching for years. They claim they printed out the picture matching the name/description and the agent recognised him immediately as someone he had questioned once and snapped him up. Was one of those guys planning to blow shit up but I don’t get why they couldn’t get a fucking warrant for that.