Mangione: “I don’t know where that money came from. I’m not sure if it was planted.”
Mangione: “I don’t know where that money came from. I’m not sure if it was planted.”
Mangione said during his arraignment, “I don’t know where all that money came from,” referring to “$8,000 in cash [and] $2,000 in foreign currency” that law enforcement claimed was on his person. Prosecution also referenced a “faraday bag” as part of their argument that Mangione engaged in “criminal sophistication”, while Mangione claimed the bag were merely “waterproof”. This was part of a larger argument to deny Mangione bail.
Edit: apologies for the TikTok, but I removed tracking from the URL and it comes from the official CNN TikTok.
You're viewing a single thread.
- I lean towards believing him. Cops planting evidence, something they’re known to do, seems way more likely to me than him being the dumbest criminal alive after seeming to be the smartest criminal alive, and the cops managed to find him.
I think they found the pictures of Luigi in the hostel, decided “That’s our guy” despite no link between hostel guy and the shooter, tracked him down because they had his face and evidence of where he was going, and planted the evidence when they found him. That “manifesto” was written by one of the cops on their drive to Altoona.
The pictures of man in the hostel are very clearly a different fucking guy than the guy in the taxi who is also clearly a different guy from the shooter. They’re wearing different clothes and don’t even look that much alike.
- If Luigi was the shooter, I’m glad to see they’re going with the “I don’t know shit, they planted that, I’m not the guy” defense anyway, I think that’s his best shot. The only piece of evidence that actually connects him to the shooting is the shitty security footage of him shooting the guy. “That’s not me, that could be fucking anyone” is a great defense even if it was you.
It’d be hard enough to find a jury willing to convict him if he looked into the camera and said “My name is Luigi Mangione and I am about to murder Brian Thompson for what he did to my mother,” it’ll be even harder to find a jury willing to convict him for a video of a video game character creation screen’s default white man shooting someone.
The amount of evidence they have "planted on him" at this point would mean the cops have level 99 pickpocket in Skyrim and putting suitcases of the stuff in his inventory. So far the cops have planted:
- a 3d printed gun
- a 3d printed silencer
- 4 fake ids
- a handwritten manifesto
- $8k in USD, $2k in foreign currency
- faraday bag likely from a graphics card or some shit
- a jacket
- a backpack
- a unibrow
You know they can just lie about finding it on his person, right?
I could believe that the cops lied about the money to prove flight risk to hold without bail in PA.
However, he tacitly admitted to the court the rest of the stuff they found on him when he didn't challenge that but instead just challenged the money. In fact his reply challenging "criminal sophistication" of the Faraday bag doesn't indicate a denial of the Faraday bag being his, it simply denies that it was used as anything other than a waterproof bag.
Ok you made me watch this fucking TikTok since I couldn’t find a text source. He only disputed those things because they were the only things brought up during the prosecution’s justifications for denying bail. The rest of the items weren’t mentioned in this context, so if anything bringing them up in it only would have made him look more guilty.
He only disputed those things because they were the only things brought up during the prosecution’s justifications for denying bail.
That's now how these things work. You're taking the reporting summary and pretending that it is the whole contents of an arraignment. You don't think that arraignments include if the suspect was armed?
You're working overtime to show your own ass.
I do, which is why I sought out a text source for a more complete recounting. I dont know how he responded to what was found on his person because it's not reported on. Anywhere.
The trial is already happening?
It was an arraignment
All any of that means is they brought a backpack full of all that stuff. None of that is difficult except the eyebrows which imo don’t line up with the video of the guy who actually did the shooting. Who is, again, wearing different clothes than Luigi is in the hostel.
Yes and it's actually not even his fault because the evil Dr. Yakub had made the entire white race on Patmos and the cops are using their tricknology on all of us. That's how they got the manifesto to line up with his reading list despite planting the backpack.
“ChatGPT, write me a manifesto of a 26 year old man who killed a healthcare CEO who read these books”
chatgpt + usa police is actually bleak to think about now that you mention it lolI’m wondering how long it’ll be before we find out someone was framed because the ChatGPT log of the cop creating the evidence comes out
It's already happened I'm sure, but it won't be revealed until the person has been sitting on death row for decades.
The gun has changed three times now. First a fairly regular gun with subsonic ammo. Second a relatively obscure piece. Now it was 3d printed. The guns changed as many times as Luigi has changed his eyebrow and jacket
Considering he's clearly a master of transformation magic, it's amazing the police were able to catch him at all.
None of those things are impossible to get for the civil forfeiture department