• Pronell@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Fairly well-executed plan? Dude was eating in public in the same jacket he wore that day.

    Not to mention going without the mask at Starbucks and keeping the manifesto and weapon.

    He wasn’t trying to seriously evade capture. But I think he was close to having a chance.

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      4 days ago

      And yet the only reason he was caught as soon as he was, was because a McDonald’s employee wanted $50,000 (and didn’t even end up getting the money anyway).

      I didn’t say it was a flawless plan or even great, just that he did evade authorities for days despite the insane amount of resources NYPD poured into finding him.

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        He was 100% getting caught regardless of who reported seeing him. The only chance he had was ditching everything and running forever.

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          If he made it overseas, it would have been much harder.

          I think he would have been much better off going immediately to a lawyer, and go into hiding for a while. Her could have afforded to Doordash some Mickey D’s.