• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    91
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    Why are we pretending like this isn’t prudent on NYPD’s part? If this weren’t 2000 miles away I’d probably show up, if not to try and bust him out then at the very least to throw shit at the cops and yell. And if I’m considering driving a prius thru the fence to free the guy, I can only imagine what the non suburban-cishet-white-male-techie demographic is feeling about it.

    • Vedlt@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      57
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, I assumed it wasn’t too keep him under control, but because of the hero worship he’s receiving.

      • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        26
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        6 days ago

        Of course it still looks really bad on camera. This is one of those lose/lose situations where your best course of action still amplifies a message you probably don’t want to amplify.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        6 days ago

        Absolutely. Turns out people still hate murderers, and like justice. Hence the love for luigi and why Derrick Murderer hasn’t got crowds demanding his release…

        • nepenthes@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          6 days ago

          To people who don’t know the story (ie potential jurors) it could be detrimental, but I’m sure his lawyer will address that.

          • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            6 days ago

            Does any potential juror possibly not know about this? We’re not talking about rare mineral slave miners here.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      I think they’re on top of a building after the helicopter landed. Don’t quote me on that. I know you’re just bullshitting but if you really want to do something don’t go throw shit at cops and get yourself arrested, do something smart.

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      5 days ago

      lol, there are actually fewer escorting Superman in a scene meant to be over the top.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      5 days ago

      This tells me they see Luigi as a more dangerous threat than the military saw fucking Superman in that movie.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    49
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 days ago

    Yeah no shit, crowds didn’t gather around to ask for the release of the college killer.

    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      ^ this.
      The media outreach of one person was huge and is a bigger risk to transfer than the other. Ill let you all figure out who is who

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    5 days ago

    They want to look super scared and weak. Its how I see them when it takes that many fedbois for one dude.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    6 days ago

    On a possibly unrelated note. If you were with the NYPD, would you pull strings to be part of that escort? Just a shower thought.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      6 days ago

      Oh yeah. Like I said in another post, they probably billed six hours of overtime for the ten minute walk. Cops love money just like most of us and they have all kinds of ways to make overtime and danger bonus pay and shit like that without actually working.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      edit-2
      5 days ago

      that’s a trick question: pigs don’t shower

      i apologize. i’m going to stop calling police pigs. i have been working on it for a year and failing but i am going to xmas gift myself the right to stop calling them pigs.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 days ago

      Not to mention one did their act in NYC and fled to suburban Pennsylvania while the other had to deal with police from a far more mundane environment. People who think the comparison can be used to paint police intentions (as if they’re even a single body like some army of droids and not individuals who have free will to show up) are just sad, it would be like saying “the 1918 plague was not as widely reported or is as known as the smallpox plague, therefore it killed less or was less a priority”. People are sadly disproportionate, that’s just how things seem to have worked in history.

  • robocall@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    6 days ago

    It’s making a statement that if you go after the rich/CEOs - they’ll throw every resource into finding you.

  • Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 days ago

    It’s all about attention. They wanted their photos taken. Luigi made history, while children getting massacred is just another day in the USA.