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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Cops are some of the worst people in the world. Cowards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

It's a fast track to power over others without having to first gain significant knowledge/wisdom to wield responsibly.

A surgeon is a allowed to cut you open and rearrange your insides because they have been through the intense trials and scrutiny to be trusted to do so.

Cops are just a few weeks of training. Who does this fast track to power without commensurate burdens of responsibility attract? BULLIES. The kids that stole your lunch money are the ones handing out speeding tickets and on drug dealer bribe takes.

That's the paradox of power, the harder someone seeks it for its own sake, the worse a candidate they are to possess it. Maybe if Law enforcement were part of some kind of mandatory national service where everyone has the option to hold it for a year or two would help, but this sociopathic place is too selfish for such ideas.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 14 hours ago

Not a legal expert, but sounds to me the entire case has been mishandled and all charges are to be dropped immediately.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's surprising it worked. It's a really well-known tactic, owed to being on every cop show ever. Pretty sure it's totally above-board, though. Anything you leave behind (trash, crumbs, maybe a bit of saliva) is fair game. Unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Please don't let any of my hairs fall out while in custody.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Let this be a lesson, if ever arrested. Keep your mouth shut and don't accept anything that the cops give you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ask for water from a bottle only, then drink without letting it touch your lips.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But only if you're wearing gloves

[–] shadshack 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They'll take your fingerprints when they book you. They'll hold your hand down and force it onto the reader / ink pad if they have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah yeah true, forgot that this was an arrest and not just questioning

[–] rc__buggy 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you're arrested for a felony in CO you have your DNA collected via swab. Is that not standard? They don't do that in PA?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They don't usually collect until after you're convicted, if I recall correctly.

[–] rc__buggy 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In CO a felony arrest gets you swabbed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Sucks for CO

[–] [email protected] 30 points 17 hours ago

Well he is a bit of a snack.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm kind of surprised he fell for that

[–] Lucidlethargy 35 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

He didn't murder anyone. He's clearly just someone the cops framed. Who walks around with a confession in their backpack after murder?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Someone who is a perfect example of the "I didn't think I'd get this far" meme. For you to believe he's a scapegoat, you also have to believe that the cops found a guy who looks like the killer, wore the same clothes as the killer, was in the same area as the killer, and had motive to kill the ceo of uhc basically within hours of the murder, because that's when the media started running the pictures from the hostel. The, this hypercompetent police force who found a perfect patsy in no time lets him float in the wind for 5 days for... No reason.

There's a lot of shady elements, this is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

Different clothes, different backpack. Same person? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I understand why he did what he did as much as anyone but this conspiratorial thinking annoys me.

Maybe someone who sees the online reaction to their action and expects to become a martyr when found carries a confession with them?

Police in the US is beyond fucked up but if this is a cover up I'll eat my shoes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like little risk as far as this alleged crime goes, if there's any semen on the scene, it's likely mine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

The blood is mine and it was consensual.