Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.

The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier.

  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well, there is the whole “innocent until proven guilty”, which means exactly that we’re supposed to assume that any alleged criminal is innocent until there’s actual evidence and shit that actually proves that they’re guilty.

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      24 hours ago

      Did you note that I said CRIMINAL, and not ACCUSED CRIMINAL?

      I swear, if lemmy could ever get its head out from its own ass and actually read comments in good faith instead of seeing each one as a platform to launch a manufactured bullshit argument from, more people would come here.

      But this is why people don’t. I know a lot of people this think this place is a joke. And shit like this is why.