It's kind of telling watching folks try to analyse the police misconduct in the United Healthcare case to support this or that conclusion because, like, you know they do that anyway, right? Cops routinely fabricate evidence even when they genuinely believe they've got the right guy because it's easier than doing their jobs.
Ultimately, the cops blatantly faking evidence tells us nothing one way or the other because it's literally standard operating procedure.
@qwertystop replied:
Is there news on the case I haven't seen?
Unless there's been an even more recent development I have't gotten up to speed on, way back in December of 2024, the NYPD chief of detectives gave a press briefing in which he cited an interview with Luigi Mangione's mother, quoting her as saying that the shooting "might be something that [she] could see him doing"; the reported statement was subsequently widely circuated by news networks. A couple of days ago at the time of this posting, the relevant interview transcripts were finally turned over to Mangione's defence team, and it turns out that not only can that statement not be located in the transcripts, but the alleged source is now claiming he never directly spoke to Mangione's mother at all.
The thing that's remarkable about this case is not the existence of the police misconduct-- it's the sheer incompetence involved in it, especially given how high-profile the case is.
I cannot emphasise strongly enough that this level of incompetence is in no way exceptional.
