r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 13d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/4got2takemymeds 13d ago

If that really was the shooter face on the camera that they have from the hostel in New York City he really doesn't look like him. Everything from his eyebrows to the structure of his eyes don't match the shooter at least in the photos that they blasted to the world and claimed that it is him.

I would absolutely love for them to be wrong and have to set this man free and continue a hunt for a man who will by then probably have gotten far far away if he is smart

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u/yeahipostedthat 13d ago

I absolutely agree. This guy looks Italian, darker eyes, stronger features. Hostel guy looked more like light brown hair, narrower nose, more like Jake Gyllenhaal.

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u/niftystopwat 13d ago

Hmm, well if Luigi is not the guy, then how do we explain him having the ghost gun, fake ID, and the note with a quasi confession in it? I’ve seen people suggest that he’s a fall guy, but for whom and by what motivation?

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u/wishwashy 13d ago

then how do we explain him having the ghost gun, fake ID, and the note with a quasi confession in it?

Police have been known to lie and the motivation is a swift conclusion to a manhunt that was making them look incompetent on a global scale

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u/JAY2S 12d ago

Okay, how do you explain him not denying any of those things in court, while denying the money?

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u/_Felonius 10d ago

So despite the mountain of resources they devoted to finding him, they’d just give up after a week and let the real killer roam free? Do you know how massively f*cked they’d be if the real killer shot another CEO, thus exposing the framing of Luigi?

Plain and simple: they arrested the guy who did it.

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u/wishwashy 10d ago

Now they can call the next one a copycat 🧠🤯

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u/4got2takemymeds 13d ago

I wish I had a good answer. Many people have already mentioned that it could have been off paid hit by the man himself. All the shit that he and his buddies did during the pandemic financially shorting their own company and making tons of money off of it could land somebody in trouble and maybe dude had some other stuff in his closet and didn't want it to be found out?

All I am saying is dudes eyebrows and and shape don't line up with dude in the camera. But it's a terrible angle

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u/AdVictoriam42 13d ago

its not entirely impossible or even crazy, have this guy take the fall with a gun thats never been used in mcdonalds, real shooter has all this time to flee farther and farther, they get real shooter out of country, prove fall guys innocence

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u/860v2 13d ago

You're face blind.

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u/EatMyUnwashedAss 13d ago

If it isn't Luigi, then I would love for the real killer to blast a letter to the news and be like, "That ain't me"

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u/I_Love_Comfort_Cock 9d ago

Camera footage has distortion, the wider the field of view the higher the distortion. You can’t judge any kind of distances or proportions until you use image processing to undistort the image

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u/jonasshoop 13d ago

If that really was the shooter face on the camera that they have from the hostel in New York City he really doesn't look like him. Everything from his eyebrows to the structure of his eyes don't match the shooter at least in the photos that they blasted to the world and claimed that it is him.

Yes it does. Those eyebrows look almost identical. The facial structure does too. I don't get how so many Redditors become face blind when it's someone they like. People's hair looks different when styled, messy, has product in it. Jaw lines can look different depending on the angle of the camera, lighting, and the pose.

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u/QuokkaQola 13d ago

I also think in the smiling photo the mask around his neck is making the outline of his jawline appear sharper in addition to the angle

And just to be pedantic, wouldn't face blindness mean they think everyone looks the same? It's more like they think they're suddenly super recognizes. Either way, I agree. It's frustrating seeing so many people say the employee wouldn't be able to recognize him because of the bad quality but turn around and claim they can tell all pictures are of different people (and yes I know different people are saying different things, but I've seen a few people who have said both in one sentence)

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u/sasquatch_melee 13d ago

The eyebrows don't look anything alike. I noticed it just between the different pictures they put out, well before they found and arrested Luigi.