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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

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[–] index@sh.itjust.works 149 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like they are trying hard to rebrand the guy image by publishing pictures where he looks off. How i'm supposed to believe the government has no plan against the people when they pull stunt like this?

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 115 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fox news is saying people are supporting him because he's handsome and we're all a bunch of shallow morons.

Completely leaving out the fact that that CEO and others like him make decisions everyday to let people suffer and/or die for profit. To buy more yachts or whatever the fuck excessively affluent people do with money. Wipe their ass with it? Use the money from dead cancer patients who hit their lifetime maximum coverage to delicately pat their hemorrhoids clean maybe?

The media is trying so hard to spin this I hope they all get carpal tunnel from typing out all those half truths and outright lies. Then they have their claims for quality of life giving surgery denied. Then maybe they'll get it.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 2 weeks ago

Fox news spent all of yesterday "just asking questions" about his connection to California to trigger more hate towards liberals where if you read the manifesto he is definitely a sovereign citizen type of person.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't buy that many yachts anymore. They go to space...

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear there is a titan(ic) moon by Saturn. Maybe they should build the world's cheapest spaceship and go check it out. Well, I guess the starliner is available.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes! And also the spacesuits are style over substance with fake ties and the cheapest polyvinyl chloride ever!

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Mugshots rarely look good because they want a centered and level profile of your face with a neutral expression in order to capture as much detail as possible. It also might have been a minute since he's seen a shower or a razor. I wouldn't call that a conspiracy, there are much more important details at play here than his looks.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 weeks ago

they released multiple mugshots, pictures of him in jail and now there are even videos. That's not normal at all.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mugshots are also designed to make people look bad because it used to be a way that criminals would use for self promotion. But if they look bad then it has the opposite effect making them seem more animalistic and thus more evil. Also often used in wanted posters if enough photos are available. This has been the case for long before photography was invented with drawings as well.

Otherwise, they'd look more like photo IDs, which have the same requirements and are bad compared to something framed specifically to flatter someone, but not as bad as mugshots. Doesn't help that most mugshots are taken after long, abusive "interrogation" sessions or other situations that exhaust them rather than immediately upon arrest, but that's on purpose.

But the tactic to use mugshots as self promotional got popular when photos first came around because if they could get in a good shot, it's not like the police could afford to take multiple. Film was expensive. And they were put in newspapers and such, so they spread around for free. Just look at the famous criminals of the Wild West era. So police doubled down on making sure the photos looked as bad as possible and it became a popular tactic to use against "famous" criminals. Now it's used against basically all criminals.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Mugshots are also designed to make people look bad because it used to be a way that criminals would use for self promotion.

Versus now where only presidents use them for self promotion.

[–] dasenboy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Trump's mugshot sure looked good with the practiced Hitler look that he gave. But of course he had help from the lighting guy who put on an uncommon (for mug shots) sideways light on him, thus giving an even more Hitler look to him.